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dyartemis 's review for:
Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
I’m going to refrain from giving this book a rating because I can’t decide on whether I like it or not.
That being said the book definitely didn’t live up to the expectations.
The book had all Murakami’s elements, the eccentric encounters, the strong memorable characters, the relative and beauty of the mundane.
However, it lacked coherence, for me it didn’t make sense, it was all vague and obscure ambiguity that resulted to nothing and resolved nothing. I’m not sure I understand this book or the point of it.
Did it make me question a lot of things? Yes it did, as it should, but it kept declining into a whirlpool of metaphors and allegories of nothingness.
The whole point, one would assume, to learn something from these characters, have some kind of takeaway, but instead it was all errands and journeys and stops that were arbitrary. Which was all confusing and no fun.
I have to admit I was very uncomfortable with a lot of the romantic content. But I excepted that it would all lead somewhere, kafka’s family would somehow be linked to Nakata, his incident, the talking cats.
I have a lot of theories about all of it, but they will remain just that, and not in a pleasant way. I’m genuinely very disappointed and I feel like i have being reading a different book than what everyone’s been telling is one of Murakami’s greatest works.
That being said the book definitely didn’t live up to the expectations.
The book had all Murakami’s elements, the eccentric encounters, the strong memorable characters, the relative and beauty of the mundane.
However, it lacked coherence, for me it didn’t make sense, it was all vague and obscure ambiguity that resulted to nothing and resolved nothing. I’m not sure I understand this book or the point of it.
Did it make me question a lot of things? Yes it did, as it should, but it kept declining into a whirlpool of metaphors and allegories of nothingness.
The whole point, one would assume, to learn something from these characters, have some kind of takeaway, but instead it was all errands and journeys and stops that were arbitrary. Which was all confusing and no fun.
I have to admit I was very uncomfortable with a lot of the romantic content. But I excepted that it would all lead somewhere, kafka’s family would somehow be linked to Nakata, his incident, the talking cats.
I have a lot of theories about all of it, but they will remain just that, and not in a pleasant way. I’m genuinely very disappointed and I feel like i have being reading a different book than what everyone’s been telling is one of Murakami’s greatest works.