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reviewed 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami: 1Q84 (2011, Alfred A. Knopf) 4 stars

The novel is a sub-melodramatic sentimental metafictional love story in a ficticious world with two …

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2 stars

Every time I read a Murakami book, I promise myself that I'm not going to read another, because they are just so bad. Time passes and eventually someone convinces me that I just have not read the right novel of his yet. Uhg! When will it end!

I finished this book, being left with no point. Almost all questions that developed were left unanswered. When she climbed down the emergency exit, I should have done the same with this book and moved on to something else.