1Q84

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, he writes like a jazz soloist....
 
I know someone for whom this was her first Murakami. Loved it. 
 
I would recommend it to anyone....resonant, mysterious, rich (with later discoveries), 
page-turningly surprising.......
 
First topic of discussion upon finishing. 
 
Sentimentality? How much---or not?
 
 

From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
To: Technopaegnion Tapinosis <technopaegniontapinosis at gmail.com> 
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: 1Q84

I think one of those issues is definitely Murakami's. From what I
understand he doesn't write with a preconceived structure but sits
down and writes from the beginning and just sees where things go, and
keeps doing this until the novel resolves itself. I'm sure he goes
back and edits but these days when I find foreshadowing in his writing
I'm always thinking that he doesn't even know what is exactly is being
foreshadowed. There's plenty of that in 1Q84. Nothing wrong with loose
ends but when there are so many to trip you up it's pretty annoying.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Technopaegnion Tapinosis
<technopaegniontapinosis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Have you read his earlier novels?
>> They're all clunkers.
>
>
> His works, I understand, have received great acclaim. I never expected that
> they would read like either a poor translation or a budding novelist in need
> of a teacher and editor. Now that I think about it, the Tengo narrative can
> be read as...well...it does build a triangle of sorts around exactly this
> kind of relationship. But the Green Beans narrative is quite awkward; the
> characters are described as if the author needs to push certain facts about
> them out at us so that we don't miss them. At the same time, I never
> expected that Green Beans would kill anyone. was I missing something about
> her? Did any of the seemingly forced characterizations matter? For example,
> we are told things about her abilities to remember, to connect, but then we
> can't quite make out, since she can't either, why she recalls certain things
> or makes certain connections. The work is, like the high school girl's
> story, full of promise, dense with story-teller's magic, but it is far from
> a work that one expects from a novelist who has been sold to us as a genius
> novelist. Or is it the translation?
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