Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International) by Haruki Murakami Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International)
Book Review: Unbelievably creative and imaginative, terrific imagery
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great book. Couldn't put it down. Murakami never ceases to amaze me with his creative ideas. It's like, man, I never would have thought of that. Especially the whole separation of person/shadow/mind concept. When people ask me what the books about, all I can say is, "It's really hard to explain." Knowing that my explanation couldn't do it justiceBook Review: Beautiful, Strange, and Delightful!
Summary: 5 Stars
I felt that I didn't read this book so much as I "watched" it. Like a movie or a fantastic dream, and written with Mr. Murakami's usual finesse. Believable characters, and indeed, a hard-as-nails world at the last train-stop of the universe. A world within a world, it echoes "A Wild Sheep Chase," but expounds upon this in a delightful way. Yet again, Haruki Murakami proves that there are still original writers out there with style, imagination, and the talent to pull it off. Fabulously done! Subarashii! Rippa! OishikattaBook Review: Murakami creates a facinating techno-deranged world
Summary: 5 Stars
It's been a while since I read this book and his 'A Wild Sheep Chase' but
I found both books hard to put down once I got into Murakami's world.
I found that there is a great feeling of presence in his narrative
descriptions of places and the environment that his characters
inhabit. This is very cool to experience, due to the strangeness of the
events and places described in the book. I really feel present alongside the protagonist
as circumstances take him to ever more bizarre encounters.
Eagerly awaiting more from Murakami.Book Review: Fear and loathing in Tokyo
Summary: 5 Stars
It is the world in the near future, and Information is all.
The narrator of this fantastic, and unnerving, novel finds
that his mind is subject to the power and terror of
dark forces. Two stories are being told: one, the narrator's job as a "data
shuffler", moving numbers from right to left brain; the other, his unconscious
journey in to the "end of the world", where he reads the "old dreams"
of a humanity that does not know death.
Murakami has produced a wonderfully eerie myth for the next millenium. I highly recommend this novel.Book Review: You will think you're dreaming, perhaps you are.
Summary: 5 Stars
Murakami's books in general involve the fantastic interwoven
with the real. It is not, however, a "tale of two cities",
nor a deranged man's insomnial (is that a word?) visions. It
is a tale of one man, one life and the synapses of a life
devoid of meaning until one day....It is a life which you
long to be a part of. He writes so clearly, so
much like he can see what you do everyday and can write it.
You can relate to it like your life. And that is exactly
the point of his books. How much is your life worth? How
do you see yourself in his books? Do you realize that he,
Murakami, himself is searching for an answer; perhaps you
might know the answers to? The plot's end is a peace. He
tells you that you will survive. The monotony of a daily
life is not a struggle. It is, sometimes, the only syrum to
the bacteria eating your brain.