1Q84

[Erik T. Burns]

Does anyone on the list read Murakami in the original? Is this a
translation issue (or is it exacerbated by the translation)?

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 3/1/2012 10:24 AM, Erik T. Burns wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Using more words than necessary is one definition of hack writing.
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> Not saying Murakami is a hack, just than sometimes it seems that way.
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> P
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>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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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