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Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
4.0
I’m not sure how to describe this book at all. Fantasy, magic, brutalism, incredibly boring, totally fascinating. The female characters are flat and one dimensional, but relatively minor to the story. Yet somehow I kept reading for well over 700 pages. I feel like I’m a little swept up in this one and two weeks from now I might come back and slash the star rating in half, but again, plowed through this just fascinated.
Really have to gloss over the wildly inappropriate (though not sexual) relationship between the grown man and the 13 year old girl. Is this a cultural or translation thing? I don’t think so but I’m going to pretend it isn’t creepy because... i don’t think it’s meant to read that way, maybe? Maybe the author just can’t write teen girls so it’s super awkward?
Read the synopsis for the plot, but the plot is really just an outline anyway.
Really have to gloss over the wildly inappropriate (though not sexual) relationship between the grown man and the 13 year old girl. Is this a cultural or translation thing? I don’t think so but I’m going to pretend it isn’t creepy because... i don’t think it’s meant to read that way, maybe? Maybe the author just can’t write teen girls so it’s super awkward?
Read the synopsis for the plot, but the plot is really just an outline anyway.