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2006-01-08 17:28   From: chris_lzh (Tianjin)

a review of Dance Dance Dance (Vintage International)   

So I just finished reading Dance Dance Dance. It's not a bad book, but certainly not great. After a bit, the 'mystical' elements like the Sheepman and the room of skeletons in Hawai'i just start to seem silly. And I don't think Murakami could have written more cliched hard-bitten cops if he tried. But those really are peripheral matters. Towards the end of the book I started to get a bit tired of the protagonist and his overly self-absorbed, adolescent angst-filled wankery. I mean, why do apparently 'big' issues like apparent corruption in the real-estate industry in Sapporo or the murder of high-class call girls get pushed to the side while this allegedly 34-year-old main character tries to "find himself"?

But having said all that, it is a reasonably entertaining book. I could say Murakami writes well enough to bring the story to some kind of life, but I don't read Japanese: The translator did an equally good job.

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By Haruki Murakami
Vintage
ISBN: 0679753796
Release Date: 1995-01-31
Paperback
List Price: USD 14.95

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