1Q84

[Erik T. Burns]

i am listening to this one at present, and finding it veeeeeeerrrrrry
sloooooow to make even the most basic plot points. I'm about 1/3 of
the way through the book and I could summarize the twin plots so far
in about 30 seconds. This is not necessarily a problem; the problem is
the filling in is almost totally uninteresting & often repetitive.

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> For the record, which sez something laughable at about me, I do not think
> his richness is
> as rich as TRP's---or a few other writers I know---and, his weakness is
> sentimentality--
> maybe ultimately---which may be my word for what other readers to whom he
> falls short,
> means, dunno.
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> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> To: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>; P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 7:39 AM
> Subject: Re: 1Q84
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> i found it page-turning and full of thematic richness. The overarching
> question to me is
> the historical one: what does the alternative 1984 mean? to the present vs.
> the Present.
> Very Iceland Spar-like to me, that is, how different is the historical
> light? What does it show?
>
> From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
> To: P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:19 PM
> Subject: Re: 1Q84
>
> 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:
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>> 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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