Murakami - After Dark Just finished this book and I feel…
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Murakami - After Dark
Just finished this book and I feel like it comes close to the description of “Lynchian”
I found the book to be very cinematic in the way that he sets the scenes and describes the reader as an omnipotent being who observes the characters.
I liked the way that the core story is a boy and girl meeting in a Denny’s but there’s this underlying darkness beneath the surface.
I found that the descriptions of Eri getting stuck in the television reminded me a lot of blue velvet or like inland empire although not as extremely surreal or dark.
Overall I enjoyed this book and it was an easy and quick read. I feel like it could have even been a bit longer and I wish there was some resolution to the Shirakawa story but I also think the openness of the ending leaves a lot to the imagination (will Mari and Takahashi continue their relationship, will Eri recover, will Shirakawa be murdered).
I think Murakami is not best at writing female characters and there are always numerous references to breasts in the books of his that I have read. He’s got kind of a “boyish” that I find a bit endearing though.
Let me know your thoughts!
#entertainment
Just finished this book and I feel like it comes close to the description of “Lynchian”
I found the book to be very cinematic in the way that he sets the scenes and describes the reader as an omnipotent being who observes the characters.
I liked the way that the core story is a boy and girl meeting in a Denny’s but there’s this underlying darkness beneath the surface.
I found that the descriptions of Eri getting stuck in the television reminded me a lot of blue velvet or like inland empire although not as extremely surreal or dark.
Overall I enjoyed this book and it was an easy and quick read. I feel like it could have even been a bit longer and I wish there was some resolution to the Shirakawa story but I also think the openness of the ending leaves a lot to the imagination (will Mari and Takahashi continue their relationship, will Eri recover, will Shirakawa be murdered).
I think Murakami is not best at writing female characters and there are always numerous references to breasts in the books of his that I have read. He’s got kind of a “boyish” that I find a bit endearing though.
Let me know your thoughts!
#entertainment
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