Peruse Kafka On The Shore Prepared By Haruki Murakami Provided As PDF

books have infected me with boredominduced ADD, the desire to gnaw my own foot off at the ankle, and the state of mind you might experience if forced to sit upon a nest of hornets while watching your home being burglarized, but this was one of them.
It took me until pageto stop wanting to hop up and rearrange the spice cupboard or my sock drawer every few sentences, but then the feeling returned at page.
Onlypages to go! From then on, my hatred and resentment of this book progressively grew like a dead cow bloating in the heat,

“Kafka on the Shore” is a mess, It is such a mess that it makes my sixyearold sons postplaydate bedroom look like Buckingham Palace, Loosely based on the Oedipus myth, and taking some obvious inspiration from Catcher in the Rye, this book seems to be little more than a random hodgepodge of ideas held together with pipe cleaners and raspberry jam.


There was so much to hate about this book, Here are just a few things:
, Boring, unnecessary descriptions that do nothing to further the story of what people are wearing, what Kafka likes to do during his workout, what he decides to eat, what he is listening to on his Walkman, and so on.
I wouldnt have been surprised to read a monologue from Kafka along the lines of: “When I wipe my arse, I like to use just four squares of toilet paper, no more, no less.
I count them out one, two, three, four, Then I fold the length over once, and again, Equipped now with the perfect, handheld quilt, I wipe in a single, expert, sweeping motion front to back, Examine the paper to determine whether I need to repeat the process, However, I would add that this is only if the paper is twoply, For oneply paper, I need a minimum of eight sheets, but only if they are of high quality, If not of high quality, the boy Crow reminds me, Remember, youve got to be the toughestyearold on the planet, ”
. The gratuitous cat torture scene, Johnnie Walker him off the whiskey bottle has to cut the hearts out of living cats and eat them so that he can collect cat souls to make a special kind of flute.
There is no freakin point to this scene whatsoever we never hear about Johnnie or his catflute again,
. The annoying way characters Oshima in particular deliver sermons about philosophy, art, literature and classical music, It took me right out of the story tangled mess though it was and smacked of “Look at me arent I clever”
, The screechypreachy scene with the “feminist” caricatures in the library,
. Hate to be ungroovy or whatever but I just couldnt stand any of the sex scenes, particularly with Miss Saeki, thesomething librarian who gets it on over and over again with theyearold protagonist even though he and she both know she might be his longlost mother.
Excuse me while I go mop the vomitus off of my living room wall,

After the firstpages I thought that I might end up giving this book three, Anotherpages on, I decided two, By pageI decided one star, and by the end of this frustrating, pretentious, and completely unsatisfying book, I felt like Id squandered so much of my precious life reading this pile o doodoo that I didnt want to give it even one star.
However, since Mr. Murakami knows how to spell or at least, Im assuming he does since this is a translation I will relent,

In the end, love or loathing of a book is entirely subjective, and scores of critics loved this one, As for me, I feel that if Id wanted to find meaning in a random jumble of junk, I would have had more luck going to the thrift store and sifting through the bricabrac box than wasting time on Mr.
Murakamis brainomelette.
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Although translated from the Japanese, this work pays homage to Western culture in its title and in its constant references to Greek mythology.
Much of the plot is Oedipus, We also hear a lot about western music such as the Beatles, classic Hollywood films like Casablanca, and symbols of western consumerism such as Colonel Sanders and Johnny Walker.




A motherless teenage boy kills his despotic father and runs away, Now maybe he did, maybe he didnt, It looks more like a “standin” for the boy a mentally challenged older man who talks to animals perhaps killed the father,

The boy hides out in a library and at a remote rural cottage, The runaway boy acquires a new best friend who is transgendered, Meanwhile the boy may or may not have had sex with not only his mother, but his longlost sister as well,

The plot is propelled by magical realism, It rains fish, for example, so sometimes its hard to tell what is real and what is mythical,

Prophecy, fate, predestination and reincarnation are the themes in this book that the New Yorker characterized as “an insistently metaphysical mindbender, ” A bit slow at times, but it kept my interest,



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The simplistic writing in "Kafka on the Shore" contrasts pretty sharply with the Kafka on the Shore's complicated themes, Perplexing amp ultimately mindbending, Murakami helps his reader out by using prose that's as unpretentious as possible, He gives us clues as to how to get out of the labyrinth he's constructed in one piece by utilizing images amp motifs, allegory and metaphor, constructing an entire world that seems to fit like a transparency over our own.
There are different

levels of the mind, and after reading Murakami it becomes clear that there are different levels in literature as well: some novels are brave enough to explore the deep deep realms, amp with style to spare.


But "WindUp Bird Chronicle" is better, While "Kafka" continues with those previous ideas established by that other novel mainly psychic awareness, secret hidden dimensions, metaphysics it does manage to leave many loose ends, amp the picture is not wholly complete it is, alas, not a fullyrounded account of prophecies fulfilled as internal desires become manifested.
Fish and eels dropping from the sky, talking with felines, interacting with spirits: all these are exciting elements to bring forth in a contemporary story.
Murakami takes us to a place which seems new, possibly surprising even him, Perhaps he discovered what his novel was all about all too late to establish for his readership an elegant conclusion, Also: what REAL fifteen yearold listens to jazz I was not entirely convinced that the main character was all that naive, nor all that special.
Bottom line: Very interesting all the way through, but not truly, ultimately, magnificent, أحببت طبقات المعنى التي يصنعها موراكامي. اسم الشخصية كافكا وكافكا بالألمانية تعني غراب والشخصية لها ظل مرافق أو صديق متخيل أو ربما ذات منشطرة أخرى "الفتى الذي يدعى كرو" وكرو. . هو أيضا غراب وعندما تستحضر كافكا في نصك فهذا يعني أنك تستحضر الفرد الذي يجابه النظام في حين يبدو الأمر مع موراكامي. . مثل الفرد الذي يجابه اللا نظام. وهذا يعيدنا إلى ألس وبلاد العجائب والقطط التي تتكلم في الرواية تذكرنا بهذا أيضا. . وهكذا فإن قراءة هذا الكتاب أمر يشبه قراءة مكتبة وهي مغامرة جديرة بوقتك حتما.
"As I gaze at the vacant, birdless scene outside, I suddenly want to read a book any book, As long as it's shaped like a book and has printing, it's fine by me, I just want to hold a book in my hands, turn the pages, scan the words with my eyes, "
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This is exactly when you should pick up this book, But realistically speaking, pick up a Murakami book when you feel like everything else is so mundane and monotonous,
Because you will read the same in his books but you will find the stories a bit too mundanely insane and silently outrageous, The malancholy of being alive just mirrors back in his writing,
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I would say this is a magical realism fiction, But I can see paranormal, gothic, crime, scifi, forbidden relationship, coming of age elements which played major parts in this one, I feel it's still alright if I cannot grasp the whole concept of this story but I could grasp the arguments and discussion regarding books, libraries, politics, history, wars, music and musicians, religion, gender discrimination, sexuality, mental health, death any important topic you name it, you find it discussed here though not that detailed sometimes but accurate.


The book starts and ends with a fifteen year old boy, A few other important characters will be introduced to you, They have their own chapters, These chapters alternate one another, But I will say that even if the story seems haphazard, it all came in a pretty good sequence, Until more than half of the book, you will be a bit lost as to how are all these characters connected in the plot as they seem so completely seem to be living in their own different worlds.

But yes, they are all connected and each character has an important role to play and each event described is important no matter how trivial it seems.


I would say there are some disturbing moments described in details, Disturbing. Yes. So I won't describe them here again,

The book ended well and good, But you will still feel like you haven't grasp the whole concept of what happened in the entire story,

Yes, Murakami's books make you feel like that, But what makes his books special is the way the writing makes you see the hidden dark parts of what we are capable of thinking, how imagination can go deeper and higher at the same time.
Yes, I know you will find the characters disgusting and somehow as some kind of psychos for sure but yes, they do make you see the darkest corners of your mind.
Most of the time his words will spark your static brain, then makes you want to huddle in a room alone making you want to protect yourself from such broken characters, then makes you feel the warmth of having someone random who becomes close to you out of nowhere.
He makes me see what really matters, He makes me see the actual magical realism is the illusion and the false fears/limitations we have for ourselves, Even though I still will be living with the same fears and illusion I have made up for myself and as how everything made me see the reality, his books make me see the difference.
And that's how Murakami makes me live differently with his books,

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