A review by flexluthor
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami

adventurous funny mysterious fast-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

2.0

I think I'm mostly over Murakami outside of his masterworks like Wind Up Bird or Kafka on the Shore (or my personal favorite, Hard Boiled Wonderland). It's a fine book, with some pretty passages. I read it after hearing it referenced in a conversation about Silent Hill 2, and I can see that parallel with the haunted (?) hotel featuring heavily in this book. However this seemed like another rote Murakami to me: the protagonist makes pasta, a woman disappears, he doesn't really care, he's obsessed with earlobes. I might pick up his newest novel when it's published in English, but otherwise I think I'm over it