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A review by koberreads
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Did not finish book. Stopped at 9%.
I realize I am not yet ready for this book and I am craving a long form fantasy kind of read. Rather surreal mystery that Murakami often provides. Reading Murakami is fun if you want to experience getting “high” by reading surreal things but I get tired of it after a while and would like to make sense of the story for a while rather than keeping putting me in emotional cliffhangers in the end that are not so fulfilling and are often creating too many question in the end rather than answering things.
Murakmai will continue to be giving us mysteries that make us reflective and have more questions in life but he rarely gives sufficient answers or satisfying endings
You read Murakami to experience mystery and oddity rather than to discover answers or experience clarity in one aspect of your life. Even temporary clarity is rarely experienced while reading AND after you read one of his books. Exception is maybe one of his non-fiction books. For example “Underground” a journalistic writing regarding a true horrify tragedy in Japan (The subway gas attack.) A form of writing that gives better light and info compared to what the info that the news broadcast during that time.
Murakmai will continue to be giving us mysteries that make us reflective and have more questions in life but he rarely gives sufficient answers or satisfying endings
You read Murakami to experience mystery and oddity rather than to discover answers or experience clarity in one aspect of your life. Even temporary clarity is rarely experienced while reading AND after you read one of his books. Exception is maybe one of his non-fiction books. For example “Underground” a journalistic writing regarding a true horrify tragedy in Japan (The subway gas attack.) A form of writing that gives better light and info compared to what the info that the news broadcast during that time.