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scastel 's review for:
Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
Loveable characters:
Complicated
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This is the second book I’ve read by Murakami and it will be my last. I will never get over his inability to respectfully write on women and their stories - no, I don’t need pages upon pages of words describing Naoko’s, Midori’s, etc bodies.
I still give the book two stars because it’s not that Murakami is a bad writer. He just chooses the worst topics to write on. I will say, though, when Toru is going throughdepression and what appears to be dissociative states , I thought these sections were well written. Alas, not enough to redeem the rest of the novel.
This is the second book I’ve read by Murakami and it will be my last. I will never get over his inability to respectfully write on women and their stories - no, I don’t need pages upon pages of words describing Naoko’s, Midori’s, etc bodies.
I still give the book two stars because it’s not that Murakami is a bad writer. He just chooses the worst topics to write on. I will say, though, when Toru is going through
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicide, Terminal illness, Lesbophobia