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[proximoception]

Murakami's the heavy favorite (over Munro) to win this year's Nobel.

On the strength of 1Q84.

What the fuck?

Seriously - while I'm eternally mad at people who make high claims for There Will Be Blood or Donnie Darko these make perfect sense next to the total madness of even a vaguely positive assessment of that book.

Comments

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Geez, you almost make me want to read more Murakami! Lots of transport space, though (as I remember it) but look who´s talking: "Kill Bill" had it´s five minutes of fun (though I hate being addressed that way just because I happen to be a femelle of the species and host estrogen) but it was the other five hours or so that got at me and I was in good company at my fav. crazy neighbour´s, drinking Osborne while husband was at work; time was on my bloody hands. So, when I pick up a Murakami sometime between now and World´s End, it won´t be 1Q84 and it´s your fault, too.

[tdaschel.livejournal.com]

Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.