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If you've ever wondered what would happen if David Lynch and Takashi Miike collaborated to write a novel, look no further; this is it. Full of bizarre characters, an astonishing number of clairvoyant females, odd behaviors, and some of the worst human torture scenes I've ever read, this book delighted and disgusted me. Every character had a story, some more interesting than others, and the reader could tell that something was amiss with one of them.
Slaughtered animals and skinned humans peppered this novel of a man in search of the wife who abandoned him. Typically, Murakami gave excruciatingly painful detail from everything to a baseball bat beating reminiscent of _Crime and Punishment_ to the meals he ate every. single. day.
The craziest part of the novel, I thought, was the inexplicable draw to sitting in the bottom of dry wells. More than one character did this and more than several times. The dream sex that was actually real; the moving through the wall at the bottom of a well; the curses on people and houses; the secretive wig surveys; and the war stories of broken soldiers were almost too much to handle. This is complex.
The loose end was the unknown woman who called to speak pornographic messages to the main character. What happened to her?
This also reminded me of _Norwegian Wood_ because of the isolation one character sought from the madness of her life (ever since the main character entered it!). He visited it and found it pleasant. I'd like to go there, too, right now just to get some of this out of my head. If it wasn't so darn entertaining it would be painful.
If you've ever wondered what would happen if David Lynch and Takashi Miike collaborated to write a novel, look no further; this is it. Full of bizarre characters, an astonishing number of clairvoyant females, odd behaviors, and some of the worst human torture scenes I've ever read, this book delighted and disgusted me. Every character had a story, some more interesting than others, and the reader could tell that something was amiss with one of them.
Slaughtered animals and skinned humans peppered this novel of a man in search of the wife who abandoned him. Typically, Murakami gave excruciatingly painful detail from everything to a baseball bat beating reminiscent of _Crime and Punishment_ to the meals he ate every. single. day.
The craziest part of the novel, I thought, was the inexplicable draw to sitting in the bottom of dry wells. More than one character did this and more than several times. The dream sex that was actually real; the moving through the wall at the bottom of a well; the curses on people and houses; the secretive wig surveys; and the war stories of broken soldiers were almost too much to handle. This is complex.
The loose end was the unknown woman who called to speak pornographic messages to the main character. What happened to her?
This also reminded me of _Norwegian Wood_ because of the isolation one character sought from the madness of her life (ever since the main character entered it!). He visited it and found it pleasant. I'd like to go there, too, right now just to get some of this out of my head. If it wasn't so darn entertaining it would be painful.
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