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Mar 19, 2024EmeML rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The page count might make some readers skeptical, but if you sit down with the book for a couple chapters, you’ll blink and find yourself at the end of a fascinating 900 page romance-mystery epic. I, personally, did just that and upon…
Nov 01, 2023pacl_teens rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
"Haruki Murakami presents 1Q84: a whopper of a novel, originally released as three separate volumes—for good reason, as it took me a good several weeks to get through. Murakami tells a long-winded story with multiple plotlines, some of…
Jun 30, 2023IslomKarimov rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I was pretty let down by this book. I went in expecting it to be about the 'how do I know if my perception of reality is reality' part of 1984, but the whole Mandela effect part of the plot was actually fairly small. The best part of the…
Jan 29, 2023SGrant614 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The paperback edition I own is 1157 pages long. I understand that this work was published as a three-volume serial novel in Japan. While it may be difficult to read (due to time) if borrowed from a library, it is an excellent,…
bluequirk
Feb 23, 2022
Bird - don't worry you'll grow into it . try some Dharma Bums or naked lunch then the movie of naked lunch and these may help get into it or open the/a story . the fun that writers have with us readers . and Enjoy
Apr 16, 2021Birdtrovert rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I got to Book 2 but had to stop. I tried listening to the audio book version but still couldn't get into it. Some chapters would just drag on; like, there was half of a chapter just dedicated to the one character wanting to kick men in the…
Mar 13, 2021Spokoj rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A great piece of fiction that makes you think about supposed reality in new ways.
Feb 20, 2021nathaliecorrea1220 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I went into this novel blindly. I did not know what it consisted of. I thought it was an okay storyline with aspects that made it mediocre. 3/5 stars at most. I have some mixed feelings about it. At first, I enjoyed learning about this…
Dec 01, 20201aa rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I was really anticipating reading and loving this book, but I was greatly disappointed. Its gets going very slowly. Oddities pop up here and there in the first 500 pages or so, whetting one's appetite. The work only gets going in the last…
Jul 07, 2020rmproffitt rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I have been reading Murakami for several years now and I love that his novels are getting longer and longer. I crave more of his stories. The detail makes it all seem real and yet not real at the same time. 1Q84 is just enough surreal that…
Apr 23, 2020andreabilyeu rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Very much like a Stephen King novel. Starts off in the normal, everyday world and quickly changes into another world. You follow along as the characters are trying to figure out what's happened/happening.
Mar 30, 2020JCLJENNYT rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
So this was my second read through of this book and it was just as weird and bizarre as I remembered if not more so. There is something about Murakami's writing that has a magnetism to it and no other writer quite hits the same way making…
Feb 14, 2020beetlebaily rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
At its core, it is;a superb love story, fantastical, excellent writing. really, really long but gripping. I gave it a 5 out of 5 rating.
Aug 23, 2019bluebaby1320 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
interesting book.
Apr 07, 2019LeaLibrary rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A lively story telling, I enjoyed the cultural references and means of telling a story. Intrigued by the parallels of the parallels that might be drawn from this book. It was a good read.
Feb 12, 2019sonu_n rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This book is a slow read for sure, but Murakami books are hardly known for their edge of the seat suspense. 1Q84 provides a unique insight in the lives of an author, her ghost writer and an assassin - unbelievable plot lines and shifting…
Jan 24, 2019
I like Murakami, but I gave up before the end of book one. I've been conditioned by concurrently reading vintage Simenon and SJowall crime fiction to value action over exposition, and I know there's a great story inside of 1Q84 just…
Oct 13, 2018jontalk rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This was a Corte Madera 'staff pick' which I found to be fascinating in spite of its 1154 page length. I would have given it 5 stars were it to have ended differently. Haruki is a master craftsman when it comes to characters, plot,…
Jun 18, 2018Waluconis rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
You might notice views vary widely on this novel. It is paced differently than a western novel, even given it being originally published as three books. The first 400 pages were totally suspenceful. At times the heightened suspence made…
Oct 05, 2017LadyDi52 rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I started out loving this book, a fascinating tennis game between two voices. I'm halfway through and I don't think I will finish it; the author repeats many of the details over and over, while he takes many chapters to flesh out the…
Sep 12, 2017
The length of this book is intimidating, but it is a surprisingly easy read and once I was about a third the way through, I couldn't put it down. I agree with other reviewers in that it was repetitive at times, however I enjoyed the…
Apr 11, 2017scribby rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
(There is a Japanese pun in the title, and it’s a part of the plot.) This is a strange bit of surrealism where characters go into a world that is not quite (but almost) the real world, encounter circumstances that are not quite (but…
Jul 28, 2016michellelee_0 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This book was very slow. A lot of the chapters were filled with long descriptions of everyday activities (i.e. preparing dishes, riding a train, etc.). I've also seen from other reviews that the imagery of the female characters in this…
Jun 03, 2016TSCPL_ChrisB rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
1Q84 was largely entertaining. At times it became bogged down under its own mass, but when the story was moving, it moved. Of the three books, the second was the most thrilling and insightful. The dialogue between Aomame and Tamaru at the…
Apr 26, 2016
Second favorite book by my favorite author, honestly couldn't put it down