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A Wild Sheep Chase
by Haruki Murakami
3.75
"There're many things we don't really know. It's an illusion that we know anything at all."
This book was really strange, yet I actually enjoyed it a lot. It was hard to focus on it at various points because it either got a little boring or I didn't necessarily know what was going on, but the story overall was really good. Honestly, I'm still not sure if I know what went on. Our main character (who is nameless) is sent on a wild sheep chase, looking for a specific sheep in a specific part of Tokyo. He is sent on this by some strange men and the whole concept of the book was just WEIRD. The 'sheep' is obviously a symbol for something else, as this book contains plenty of magical realism and surrealism. But, I have yet to figure out what the symbolism is (something I'm certainly going to do a deep dive about now). There really isn't too much to say about this book, Murakami is a fantastic writer and I'm so excited to read some more of his work since I've picked up a few of his novels this weekend. If you want something odd and thought provoking, while also extremely puzzling- this would definitely be worth picking up.
"We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary....
Nonetheless, we can in the same breath deny that there is any such thing as coincidence. What's done is done, what's yet to be is clearly yet to be, and so on. In other words, sandwiched as we are between the 'everything' that is behind us and the 'zero' beyond us, ours is an ephemeral existence in which there is neither coincidence nor possibility."
"There're many things we don't really know. It's an illusion that we know anything at all."
This book was really strange, yet I actually enjoyed it a lot. It was hard to focus on it at various points because it either got a little boring or I didn't necessarily know what was going on, but the story overall was really good. Honestly, I'm still not sure if I know what went on. Our main character (who is nameless) is sent on a wild sheep chase, looking for a specific sheep in a specific part of Tokyo. He is sent on this by some strange men and the whole concept of the book was just WEIRD. The 'sheep' is obviously a symbol for something else, as this book contains plenty of magical realism and surrealism. But, I have yet to figure out what the symbolism is (something I'm certainly going to do a deep dive about now). There really isn't too much to say about this book, Murakami is a fantastic writer and I'm so excited to read some more of his work since I've picked up a few of his novels this weekend. If you want something odd and thought provoking, while also extremely puzzling- this would definitely be worth picking up.
"We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary....
Nonetheless, we can in the same breath deny that there is any such thing as coincidence. What's done is done, what's yet to be is clearly yet to be, and so on. In other words, sandwiched as we are between the 'everything' that is behind us and the 'zero' beyond us, ours is an ephemeral existence in which there is neither coincidence nor possibility."