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Duis ut nisl in mi eleifend faucibus egestas aliquet arcu. The main characters of this fiction, magical realism story are Toru Okada, Kumiko Okada. The book has been awarded with Japan-U. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator.

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What to Upload to SlideShare. Related Books Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Effortless Style June Ambrose. Related Audiobooks Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Two-Dimensional Man Paul Sahre. Views Total views. He crafts characters, environments and existential journeys that can seem both real, and dreamlike. I realize that reading a book then listening to it by a specific narrator is bound to create two different experiences, and I was ready for that.

I hoped it would help me integrate and round out more thoroughly a book, with which I was already in love. What I wasn't ready for, was Rupert Degas' inconsequential treatment of finely developed characters. I have a hard time believing that Murakami would have approved of Degas treatment of Mr. Honda, May Kasahara and Nutmeg. In fact most of the female characters, at best, seem ill conceived or misunderstood and at worst denigrating and demeaning.

I've always thought that Murakami communicates ephemeral and subversive ideas through important and subtle female roles. Degas' voice for May is probably the worst aesthetic decision made by the narrator, because she sets an underlying emotional atmosphere where where Toru's can subtly evolve safely.

The chosen voice is childish, single faceted and skewed in a weirdly stereotypical way. May's character, I had previously perceived, as a somewhat jaded, quiet spoken, playful projection of Murakami's desire to prod the Toru character.

She does this as a precocious yet physically underdeveloped teen who is older than her body would have us believe. In my mind, this was a hint that her role was incredibly important to Toru's transition.

She epitomizes the outside world that Toru rejects, a world that doesn't necessarily hate him but toys with and discombobulates him. The grating, immature, nasally, whining voice created by Degas is assaulting. It's a half baked assault that makes any of May's carefully written dialogue a travesty.

I wish I had never heard it and it colors my ability to integrate and understand her character, at all. I love this book but, wow, now I may have to go back and re-read her part to complete some thoughts about the message. Btw, Nutmeg's voice is simply unbearable, for different reasons.

Oh, and same thing for Mr. Honda, I had to turn the volume down for him. Please tell male narrators that womens voices aren't all high pitched and breathy. It is almost impossible to listen to these "female" voices. If there needs to be a vocal change, hire a women to play a woman. I finished reading the book because the "female" voices in this recording are incredibly grating.

I am a women and all of the "female voices" in this reading sound like a man trying to imitate a small child. I can't take it. The female voices did leave a bit to be desired, but it did not distract me from the writing and the voice of the protagonist was excellent. This was really engaging writing with a big dose of magical realism which both resonated honesty while being over-to-top extraordinary.

I really loved the protagonist as he deals with real-life issues as he smoothly flows into a world of magic, inner life, and visions. It is almost unbelievable this is a translation. The writing feels so personal, which can get lost in translations.

I will likely listen to this book again. The narration was so distracting to me that I wondered how the story would be different with a better narrator. Degas fails to take into account that these people are Japanese and the story takes place in Japan. I'm not saying the characters should have Japanese accents, but the 15 year old girl shouldn't sound like an irritating Valley Girl!

Some of the female voices mocks the characters they represent. It's painful listening to Mai and the ditzy voice discounts any value to her words. None of the voices match the characters personalities.

Our protagonist sounds more like an effeminate single guy than a suburban married man, and the character of Ushi spelling? It makes it too camp. The story is at times stunningly graphic. The ability of the writer to conjure up scenes of torture and man's inhumanity to man may be a bit too much for those who are more sensitive. There is the ability for the horror to become rather too vivid when your mind visually fills in the scenes of men being skinned alive.

I am not a person who is in any way delicate and some of it made me blanch. This is a story of surreal fantasy and there are times the reader feels lost as to what is going on or feel they've missed something.

A few of the subplots feel slightly unresolved as well. The sex scenes are also relatively graphic but not so bad as torture scene by far. Basically a very ordinary man who is floundering a bit in life and is feeling directionless after resigning from his job and has his life turned upside down the moment that his cat disappears. Murakami likes adding cats to his stories. From there, he gets odd phone calls from even stranger people. Which culminate in the life altering event of his wife disappearing.

He is then thrown into contact with many odd and usually attractive women leaving the reader to wonder why he never contemplated locking the door and disconnecting his phone. From here on out we hear the stories of soldiers mentally scarred by the atrocities of war and some women with special gifts who often have been violated in sexual or psychological ways or both. If this all sounds confusing it is. The book is the story of a living nightmare which our protagonist goes through where he becomes equally odd and often has a far too calm way of handling it.

It's a bit tough to figure out how he really feels at times as most of us would not have reacted with equal equanimity at being trapped in a well. Honestly, I couldn't put it down, but I'm not sure how much I enjoyed it. I would suggest that you read this one instead of listening to it to avoid the narration that will most likely leaving you distracted from the story thinking about the narration quirks and failures and how it effects the interpretation of the text.

Sarah in Brooklyn.