Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Sputnik Sweetheart
Book Review: Good, but lacking originality and depth
Summary: 4 Stars
After reading several Murakami books over the last few months, I felt this lacked originality over his previous works - the same themes of unreturned love, lack of sexual passion, hair colour changes, wells (only make a brief appearance in this one) and male lack of ambition are there. Only this time there is even less plot and you finish the book wondering what the point was. Get it to complete your collection but I recommend reading Norwegian Wood (similar in scope and approach) and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (wider plot and better characterisation) in preference. Still rates 4 stars because Murakami writes well but this is not his best.Book Review: Good in parts
Summary: 3 Stars
I was expecting a lot from this: the reviews were all so good. And it does start out well. But as soon as Sumire goes missing in Greece it gets very silly, pretentious and yawningly dull. I wanted to like it, but was very glad when it was over.Book Review: Weird and wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is like a 'head-wash', it's a strange experience to go through, but you come out feeling cleaner in spirit and refreshed in soul. It's good too!Book Review: Time for a change, Mr. Murakami?
Summary: 3 Stars
This may be the last Murakami book that I read until the author finds some new inspiration. In itself, it contains the beautiful, haunting yet simple language we have come to expect from Murakami, yet none of the themes presented in 'Sputnik Sweetheart' develop those in his other works. So again we have a nihilistic male narrator, thoroughly westernised as ever. His beloved is a screw-up, not attractive by most people's standards. The difference this time is that she is a lesbian, but really Sumire and Miu are foils for the deadened passion of K.
Hair colour, cats, wells, ears...it's all there again, but with none of the complexity of 'Wind-up Bird Chronicle' or the emotional nakedness and terrible sadness of 'Norwegian Wood'.
Let's hope for better soon.
Book Review: Mesmerising!! Achingly Beautiful!
Summary: 5 Stars
...This book in more than one ways has managed to take me to a different land...a land of innocence lost, a land of loves betrayed, a land of hopes reborn - only to be shattered and a land of exquisite poetry. I never read Haruki Murakami earlier till i casually bumped onto it while checking out ... and then when i read the other reviews and the storyline, i knew i had to pick this one up...Many of my friends who read this book earlier called it a "strange love story". However i wouldn't classify it as that. to me the book ran deeper on various platforms of love and other such relationships. This book has re-defined for me the meaning not just of love, but of the madness associated with it too.
Then I went on to discover what was the actual representation of this mysterious, yet in many ways a most delightful book and i got my answers so fast...It was the missing person Sumire's story...it was her lover's quest to find her out and what he got were not just fragments of her life but more...
A must read for anyone who has ever fallen in love!