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[proximoception]

Julie's decided the incredible suckiness of 1Q84 has something to do with Murakami's not knowing how to handle 3rd person.

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[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

It's disturbingly worse than that. The lesbian experimenting scene early on reads like my nine year old wrote it.

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

I think when I finish what I'm reading now, I'll give it another try just to give him the benefit of the doubt. I really hope it's the translation. I haven't read any reviews in detail, and I know not three words of Japanese, but...

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

I think she meant his trouble handling it somehow led to all the other troubles, like everything he knew about novel-writing somehow got lost with the switch.

She says you're dead right about the lesbian scene.