Book Review: Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakamithis better works! i just lost the review... i've done it on LJ and in a single wrong click its lost... i totally love blogger more than ever, for it saves your work literally! Its automatic!
anyhow... as i've done in my lost review... first I'll give reasons why the heck im so in love with Murakami's work... aside from he's japanese... whatever nationality i'll love him!
Anyways, i've started liking him after i read Kafka on the Shore. It doesnt have a decent ending but that was the first time i encountered a bizzare world in a pretty ordinary day and a pretty ordinary life! This is Murakami! Its surrealism embedded on reality... makes one wonder what is real, what is imaginary? This sounds like Art App all of a sudden! (Man talking to cats, Colonel Sanders as a pimp, Johnny Walker a cat killer, a model that never wakes up, an elevator that brings you to a dark room with a sheep man, the list goes on!) Another thing i like Murakami is his play with words... witty and funny! Philosophical with humor.
I just realized Murakami and i have things in common:
We both love cats and rock music, We both hate capitalism and its by-product
(not that i deny that fact that JE Boys are a product of advanced capitalism. Well groomed and well trained boys for female pleasure; You can look, but you cant touch!)Well if you like capitalism he gives it to you! Highly branded products has a sure way of coming up on his every page.
"Calvin Klein tweed jacket, Armani knit tie and a brand new Yamaha tennis shoes..." so i guess that's Murakami... Now for
Dance Dance Dance.The story centers around a 34yrs old writer (pr works most of the time) His constant dreams of his former high-class prostitute lover brings him back to a place they used to stay in, an overhauled and supersized Dolphin hotel, only to confirm that the place was enchanted and housed a Sheep Man (whatever that man is...) Then here he met a sophisticated hotel clerk, a difficult 13yrs old psychic! His search for Kiki, his lost lover, reunited him with his former classmate turned matinee idol. Brings him to the underground world of high-class prostitutes for members only... call to order... hot and fresh wherever, whenever! He then met the parents of the teenage girl; a genius photographer mother, with incredibly short term memory and a former renowned novelist father that only talks about money. Both are candidate for worst-parent-ever-award! Then he faced a murder case involving a prostitute his actor-friend once shared with him...
If you: like advanced capitalist Japan, wonders how an actor gets girls rolling on their floor naked without the buzz (*hint* JE Boys might be on the same track), wonders how difficult it is to have artists as parents, loves joyride with rock n roll blasting at your stereo, have a difficult time as a teenager- teenage angst, wanted to change your life and live according to age, curious about a dark room and who lives in it, and label your job as
"shoveling up the snow" then read read read!
BTW. if you are to read a Murakami be sure you got a highlighter at sight!
Quotes Galore!"The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.""What lasts, lasts; what doesnt, doesnt. Time solves most things. And what time cant solve you have to solve yourself. ""Once you've got an illusion going, it can function in the market like any other product. Advanced capitalism churning out goods for every conceivable niche. Illusion, that was the key word here.""If you dont want to go to school, dont. Dont force yourself. School can be a real nightmare. I know. You have these brown-nosing idiots for classmates and these teacher who act like they own the world. Eighty percent of them are deadbeats or sadists, or both. Plus all those ridiculous rules. The whole system's designed to crash you, and so the goodies-goodies with no imagination get good grades. I bet that hasnt change a bit.""all you have to do is wait... Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're all talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair." "Stupidity is stupidity. I wont put up with it"
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