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A review by clay1st
IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
2.0
I really shouldn't have read this whole book but I did.
My main criticisms are:
- It's way too long, it's so slow and full of filler that adds nothing to the plot and little to character development.
- the characters, to me, feel quite one dimensional, many feel cartoonishly so.
- The central background to the story is that a 30 year old woman and man are both still in love with each other after unexpectedly and momentarily holding hands as 10 year olds then not speaking since is, frankly, cringe.
- I felt in unsafe hands reading this, like it was written in a rush, lazily or carelessly. There seemed too many poorly thought out plot devices and convenient coincidences. There were many boring scenes and some painfully badly written scenes: e.g. Aomame unexpected deciding to kill herself then predictably changing her mind at the last minute. E.g. the entire dialog between Tengo and his demented father.
So far, my least favourite Murakami book.
My main criticisms are:
- It's way too long, it's so slow and full of filler that adds nothing to the plot and little to character development.
- the characters, to me, feel quite one dimensional, many feel cartoonishly so.
- The central background to the story is that a 30 year old woman and man are both still in love with each other after unexpectedly and momentarily holding hands as 10 year olds then not speaking since is, frankly, cringe.
- I felt in unsafe hands reading this, like it was written in a rush, lazily or carelessly. There seemed too many poorly thought out plot devices and convenient coincidences. There were many boring scenes and some painfully badly written scenes: e.g. Aomame unexpected deciding to kill herself then predictably changing her mind at the last minute. E.g. the entire dialog between Tengo and his demented father.
So far, my least favourite Murakami book.