This is a great introduction of a brilliant author - despite the off-putting accent the narrator adopts when the characters are speaking. This book is in desperate need of a book club so you can talk through what the small tangent tales say about the main story line. The story might in fact be better than 4 stars, but, due to how terrible this listening experience was, there's no way I can give it a 5.Ī brilliant reminder of how each stage of our lives sets us up for the next one, I found this Murakami as challenging and ultimately satisfying as all the rest: which is to say, when it's over you find yourself saying this can't be the end. Frankly, having the narrator speak in this dialect is one of the stupidest decisions in audiobooks history. You endure the dialogue rather than enjoy it. If he doesn't try an accent, I suppose so, but otherwise, not a chance. Would you be willing to try another one of Bruce Locke’s performances? Tsukuru was interesting, except when we had to listen to his dialogue.
For some bizarre reason, someone thought it was a good idea to have the dialogue spoken in an accent that I guess was supposed to be Japanese, and yet sounded like no one I've ever heard in my 47 years on earth. I have all the other Murakami audiobooks and they are great listening experiences. The narrator should have read the dialogue with the same voice he read the exposition. What would have made Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage better? Good story RUINED by horrible dialogue reading It feels like you are balancing blind on the edge of a train platform you feel the sound of the train and feel the compression of his words, but don't know if the Murakami train is going to hit you from the left or the right.
He bends the reader into a zone where it feels like a strange contractive tendency of the surface between sleep and wakefulness between musical, lucid dreams and surreal, philosophical nightmares. Murakami writes best when he makes the reader feel like they are just near the surface of wakefulness. It brings all the usual suspects to the Murakami table. This isn't his most exciting work, but it is clearly not a throw-away either. He gets the importance of the notes AND the silence of prose of the unsaid, dreamy place that is both recognized and strange. Murakami is a genius at writing with emotions swirling beneath the text. A slow soak in a bath of music, color, friends, loneliness, philosophy, creation and death.
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