Book Review

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

An unputdownable (sic) book that rivals James Michener's verbosity and eeriness of V. by Pynchon. Malevolent like The Bone Clocks and as sinister and skewed from reality as The City & the City. It has echoes of Gore Vidal’s Kalki and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. There is an example of super-natural sexual congress akin to Piers Anthony's Mini’s Crew (from Anthonology).

Not giving it 5 stars because it tends to be repetitive and lags at times

However, here is a hilarious exchange about a dog named Bun:

"I’ve never seen a German shepherd that liked spinach before"
"She doesn't know she's a dog:'
"What does she think she is?"
"Well, she seems to think she's a special being that transcends classification:'
"Superdog?"
"Maybe so"
"Which is why she likes spinach?"
"No, that's another matter. She just likes spinach. Has since she was a pup"
"But maybe that's where she gets these dangerous thoughts
of hers."

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