Review: Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:20:12 +0000

Murakami’s prose is so impalpable and exquisite that everything he chooses to describe vibrates with symbolic potential: a shirt hung out to dry, paper cutouts, a butterfly-shaped paperweight.

– The Guardian

I’ll start by saying it was a painful book. Norwegian Wood contains extremely slow parts, alternated with small plot advances that helped me recover a minimal amount of interest. I had to read it in several sittings.

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In short, the book narrates the emotional growth of Watanabe Toru, a nineteen-year-old in 1968 dealing with his first year of university, which serves as a backdrop for his countless romantic turmoils. His heart is divided between two girls: the first is Naoko, the former girlfriend of his deceased friend, with evident mental problems, and Midori, a sort of nymphomaniac with an intricate family background, who titillates his sexual impulses.

Review: Incubo - Dorn Wulf

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This is the sixth book I’ve read by the same author, and I have to say, so far he’s never disappointed me. Nothing to complain about regarding the style and readability: reading sporadically in the evenings, I finished it in just a few days, despite its 350 pages. I do notice, however, that perhaps, book after book, the writer’s ideas are getting a bit recycled.

I’d like to express some of my perplexities about the plot, so everything that follows is a blatant SPOILER — if you still need to read the book, close everything now!!

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Review: Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

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Review: Incubo - Dorn Wulf