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[John Bailey]

One thing I really did like was the ontological dilemma of the two
narrators - there are really strong and overt hints that each narrative
thread is just a fiction existing within the 'real' world of the other (ie
Aomame's story is actually the novel Tengo's writing or Tengo's story is
Aomame's projection of what happened to the young Tengo). And so all of the
pairings in the novel are people writing their own experiences onto the
other's life, eg Fuka-Eri is Aomame's imaginary projection of her own
childhood in a cult (which she, too, left at 10)... conversely, the Leader
in Aomame's story might be Tengo's sublimated notion of his own father.

But my god it's a struggle to get to that stuff.

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Appreciate hearing other feedback. Inclined to agree with both comments.
> This was my first Murakami book. I actually tend to read about 2/3rds
> non-fiction.
> On Feb 29, 2012, at 10:01 PM, John Bailey wrote:
>
> > I only finished it on Monday, and given I quite enjoy Murakami it says
> something that I took like two months to get through this. It's way too
> long and should have been cut by a third. There's so much going on that
> gets lost because you're just wading through the irrelevant bits.
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:27 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hinting @ But never getting anywhere.  That's a perfect description of
> my experience with this author.
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> >
>
>
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