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hollowmen 's review for:
Sputnik Sweetheart
by Haruki Murakami
My main thoughts about this book: I love K. What a lovely, generous, contented man.
When I first launched into this book I admit to a bit of an eye roll: fabulous, a woman whose defining characteristics are that she wears carefully careless clothing and is aspiring to be a writer. What a cliche. In truth, she was a cliche. Sumire is the girl you've read about in a thousand teen fiction books. She was undeservingly steeped in mystery and romantic entanglements that were very implausible. Usually implausibility doesn't bother me in Murakami but in this book it did.
I was disappointed in the Sumire/K storyline and thought that the time in Greece, the return of Sumire and the character of Miu were all so quirky that they could only be saved by the sort of depth that this short book did not give them.
When I first launched into this book I admit to a bit of an eye roll: fabulous, a woman whose defining characteristics are that she wears carefully careless clothing and is aspiring to be a writer. What a cliche. In truth, she was a cliche. Sumire is the girl you've read about in a thousand teen fiction books. She was undeservingly steeped in mystery and romantic entanglements that were very implausible. Usually implausibility doesn't bother me in Murakami but in this book it did.
I was disappointed in the Sumire/K storyline and thought that the time in Greece, the return of Sumire and the character of Miu were all so quirky that they could only be saved by the sort of depth that this short book did not give them.