A review by worm_food
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

5.0

Some books can be the absolute worst reading experience of your life while also being incredibly written. I so badly wanted to question this books' intentions but I couldn't in the end - the blend of surrealism, ancient Greek tragedies, the concepts of fate desire and memory are so difficult to tackle and to do it all at once? God. Makes me want to forgive the Freud-ity and weird incest ghost sex. 

Meaning can excuse scenes that are almost excruciating to read. Murakamists are a cult and now I get why, congrats Mr Haruki you've fucking done it.

The whole Oedipus "you can't change your destiny" curse... the Kafka not escaping his destiny either but still choosing to live despite himself. Sometimes shit that makes your skin crawl can be good metaphor. And that's the first thing this book chooses to teach you