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Killing Commendatore
by Haruki Murakami
Being well into Murakami's bibliography I don't love the stories as much as I did the first few I read. This was a longer read (nowhere near 1Q84 but a 28 hour audiobook is nothing to sneeze at) and it get slow at times but for a Murakami fan, entirely worth it.
The story starts off with an intriguing no-faced man and a portrait painter which sounds as mysterious as Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World with some thriller elements, but this story does not become that until about the last quarter of the book. The prose is pretty simple, right in line with Murakami's other works. As to weather or not that is a good thing, I still don't quite know. I was lulled into the world, the ongoings of a painter in a cabin in the woods with his rotating cast of friends. There is enough mystery and intrigue to keep the story worth reading but what kept me interested in this book the whole way through was the side characters more than the main character. I'd recommend this book to get sucked into and enjoy the world but I wouldn't give anyone the impression of literary greatness.
The story starts off with an intriguing no-faced man and a portrait painter which sounds as mysterious as Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World with some thriller elements, but this story does not become that until about the last quarter of the book. The prose is pretty simple, right in line with Murakami's other works. As to weather or not that is a good thing, I still don't quite know. I was lulled into the world, the ongoings of a painter in a cabin in the woods with his rotating cast of friends. There is enough mystery and intrigue to keep the story worth reading but what kept me interested in this book the whole way through was the side characters more than the main character. I'd recommend this book to get sucked into and enjoy the world but I wouldn't give anyone the impression of literary greatness.