A review by jannak
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

5.0

Normally I save 5-star ratings for beloved books - the ones I want to pick up and re-read over and over again. This was not one of those books. But I'm rating it highly because I rarely find myself as utterly and totally caught up in the world of a book as I did reading this. A NYT book review included the following quote, which describes my own thoughts in a much more coherent fashion: “Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers...But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.”