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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

44 reviews

kathleendayle's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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nadiakhansa's review against another edition

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reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

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menacingmarble's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I've read this and 1Q84, and both had similar themes so I was not too impressed by this one. I did enjoy the lack of pedophilia though. 
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yasaman's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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vaguelyredhead's review

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dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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maramalade__'s review against another edition

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sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

predictable murakami if that’s your thing. What it has 
  • sad young man who get way to hung up on old friendships
  • women that are nothing more than a pair of boobs 
  • Trains
What it lacks
  • Any form of character development 
I didn’t hate it it’s just more or less exactly what I expect every Murakami book to be 
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charlie29's review against another edition

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dark mysterious reflective fast-paced
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

let me start by saying that this book has an open ending. So many things are left unexplained (the ones that are, aren't even enough to explain all the shit that went down in this damn book)
Who the fuck killed Shiro, was the story of Haida’s father even real, was Haida even a real, living person at all, and if he was where on earth did he go? just to name a few of the plot holes

also, this book is heavy on sexualizing women: I couldn't bear to read it at certain times, Tsukuru’s imagination and all his dreams were disgusting, period. The way he thinks about his so-called "girl best friends" is straight-up disturbing and thank God they were his best friends, could you imagine if they weren't?
Apart from all that, if you survive reading the first 80 pages, it's a fast-paced book, but don't expect this gigantic revelation cause you aren't going to find it. It has a nice and reflective part: the loss of self-identity and finding yourself, but it's all pretty empty.
I also hated that the whole reason behind the friendship break-up is a girl faking a rape, like isn't it enough to live in a real-life society where girls that get raped are not believed? So to make the whole plot twist about a girl getting raped and for once being believed, but only to find out that it wasn't true, is pretty upsetting
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nessaraquel's review against another edition

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mysterious sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No

3.0

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bridge_to_narnia's review against another edition

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reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This book is more like a character study with a revolving plot about being ghosted by his childhood friend many years ago. It’s a slow, lax, shuffle to an ambitious answer, but often in life we don’t truly know about what others think. The writing is smooth and easy to read, the only uncomfortable moments are the peppered in sexual imagery that were definitely not needed. Overall, I’d give this book a positive rating, though negative points for the sexual habits and lack of a concrete ending.
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krystalgaia's review against another edition

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dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Norwegian Wood meets magical realism. The worldbuilding is top-notch (expected nothing less), yet it lacks the character studies that I always enjoy in his novels. Not his best work in my opinion, but not that bad in itself.
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