Reviews

1Q84: Book One and Book Two by Haruki Murakami

allen_'s review

mysterious slow-paced

2.5

monkeyboystiff's review against another edition

3.0

Not Murakami's strongest. Not really weird enough, and quite slow. Tengo was a pretty unsympathetic character, although that may have been the point. All the characters sound the same. The period setting is for aboslutely nothing, there's no hint of it except that noone has the Internet or a mobile phone. Will probably read book 3 but have paused for now.

torbexx's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

zwergotter's review against another edition

challenging mysterious medium-paced

4.0

macaroniman's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

marga28's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

laticsexile's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Bonkers but beautiful 
Daring but delicate
800 pages of strangeness, but it rattles along quickly.

andyb96's review against another edition

mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

giendtly's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

logolepsy_e's review against another edition

4.0

-Come i grandi massacri della storia.
[...]
-Quelli che li hanno commessi riescono a trovare delle motivazioni razionali per giustificarli e infine anche a dimenticarli. Sono bravi a distogliere lo sguardo da ciò che non vogliono vedere. Ma le persone che hanno subito non possono dimenticare. Né guardare altrove. La memoria si trasmette dai genitori ai figli. Il mondo, Aomame, è una lotta senza fine tra una memoria e un'altra che le si oppone.