positive 1Q84 review

[Bekah]

Thanks Paul!   I hadn't read the review because I read the book but now that I've read the review I have to say it's a very worthwhile read in and of itself (there are spoilers though - if it matters).   Page 2 was extremely good. 


If folks are listening to the book here's a list of characters (no spoilers) which was requested by a listener/reader in another group: 

Major characters   (loosely in order of appearance)
Aomame Tasaki  f.  karate woman - 
Tengo Kawana - m.   writer / teacher
Mr.  Komatsu  - literary agent
Tamaru  m.   dowager's bodyguard
the Dowager f.  also called Madame
Fuka-Eri / sometimes called Eri - Eriko Fukada -  f.  author of Air Chrysalis 
Professor Ebisuno m. - "guardian" of Fuka-Eri
Ayumi  -  f.  Aomame's bar-hopping friend

Mr. Ushikawa - detective/spy etc. 

The Leader - cult leader - 
Buzzcut - guard of the Leader -  a tough 
Ponytail - guard of the Leader - a tough 

Kumi Adachi - f.  Tengo's friend at father's hospital 
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secondary characters
Tengo's father  m. -  Mr. Kawana
Kyoko Yasuda - Tengo's married girlfriend
Azami  -  f.  the Professor's  daughter

bit players or characters referenced: 

Ito Miyama,  m. attacker/victim 
Tamaki -   f.  Aomame's old friend
Tsubasa, f.  girl found in train station
Kyoko Yasuda’s husband
Tengo's mother


Other stuff: 

Religious Cults / Communes
Akebono, 
Sakigake 



Janáček’s Sinfonietta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3RKqvknVYc
(excellent clip)

Air Chrysalis - a book

Akutagawa prize

Little People  (the alt-world's equivalent of Orwell's Big Brother?)  

Gilyaks - natives of  Sakhalin Island / Chekov's writing

Town of Cats - the story Tengo wrote

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Bekah



On Nov 20, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

> 
> I stopped reading 1Q84 after little more than a hundred pages intending to return when I was more in the mood.
> 
> This NYRB piece might lend some encouragement.
> 
> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/dec/08/behind-murakamis-mirror/