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Dance, Dance, Dance

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few weeks ago
The nameless everyman narrator of A Wild Sheep Chase returns, still pining for Kiki of the perfect ears. This is pretty typical Murakami, with its grab-bag of kooky characters and surreal situations. It's all mysterious hotels, Duran Duran obsessed teenagers, disenchanted b-grade actors, international call girls, endless pop culture references, obsessive unrequited love - and the SheepMan, of...more
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few weeks ago
This is my favorite Murakami book. His words seem to envelope the reader inside a world that is familiar but at the same time unknown. Murakami doesn't just write a story, he paints a clear picture in the mind... something most writers get lost doing with too much setting or too much prose. Yuki, Ame, Kiki, Gotanda, the lovely Yumiyoshi, the tragic Mr. Makimura, the Rat (Subtle in this...more
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few weeks ago
i read the wild sheep chase the first time when i was like... 14. it tripped me out so bad, that i 1. couldn't put it down, 2. finished the novel at some ungodly hour of the morning, 3. couldn't sleep the rest of the night cause i thought i had sheep men chasing me. then i read this book, i think out of obligation and some perverse sense of continuity. for some reason it tripped me out just as...more
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few weeks ago
The "sequel" to A Wild Sheep Chase, this book picks up with the same narrator, the same Dolphin Hotel, and the same Sheep Man, but becomes darker -- quite literally at some points. The narrator is consumed by a lack of direction that leads him to follow a random assortment of new characters around Japan and to Hawaii, and to what might be a completely different world. The relationships between...more
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few weeks ago
From all of Murakami's novels that I have read so far. This one has more of a sense of completion. Unlike Kafka on the shore, Norwegian Wood and the Wind Up Bird Chronicles - Dance,Dance,Dance gives the reader a sense of coming to full circle with the characters and the world. The others give you a sense that there was something missing , something wasnt complete. This book moved me and at the...more
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  • ISBN-10: 4770016832
  • ISBN-13: 9784770016836
  • ISBN-10: 9626344350
  • ISBN-13: 9789626344354
  • ISBN-10: 0099448769
  • ISBN-13: 9780099448761
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