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A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
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1.5/5
What the f*** did I just waste a week of my life reading? Why couldn't I stop? Why was I enthralled? What was lost in translation? I felt like I was stuck in a dream but couldn't wake up. I've never so willingly subjected myself to crazy sh*t before. Something kept me reading, likely the philosophy and the mood/environment descriptions taking on characterizations all their own, but that's where the praise stops. It stops HARD.
I could not recommend this book to anybody, ever. It was "okay". A two star. I gave it and extra 1/2 star for rediculous originality mashing reality with bat-sh*t crazy fantasy.
Read if you like to wrack your brain with subtle hints, Japanese history, liquor, cigarettes, non-sense dialogue and lazy, unmotivated protagonists who rarely exhibit rage, confusion, or doubt given the irrational and insane things occuring in the world around him.
No amount, I mean no amount of spirituality or literary beauty can save this one. This was barely fun to read and is frustrating as all hell. How this book can be given above a 3.5 staggers me, and all the 5 reviewers are literary elitist that want to be in some sort of "I get it" club, like since I don't appriciate his crazy sh*t, I'm uncultured or incapable of higher thought. No matter the language this novel is in, no matter who describes their opinions and interpretations to me, I will never change my star rating for this book. It's a book that depends entirely on the readers interpretations. Only certain things are "fact" in this brain-pounding novel, and besides the ideas or reinvention of one's self, people can make up any reasonings and answers for this creative writing experiment and support whatever arguments they want. You can be right, you can't be wrong. You can only be mind-fu*ked.
You can't compare the two, but Norwegian Wood by Murakami runs literary, thematic, and emotionally-statisfying circles around "A Wild Sheep Chase." I need a brandy like the Sheep Man.
Fu*k this book.
What the f*** did I just waste a week of my life reading? Why couldn't I stop? Why was I enthralled? What was lost in translation? I felt like I was stuck in a dream but couldn't wake up. I've never so willingly subjected myself to crazy sh*t before. Something kept me reading, likely the philosophy and the mood/environment descriptions taking on characterizations all their own, but that's where the praise stops. It stops HARD.
I could not recommend this book to anybody, ever. It was "okay". A two star. I gave it and extra 1/2 star for rediculous originality mashing reality with bat-sh*t crazy fantasy.
Read if you like to wrack your brain with subtle hints, Japanese history, liquor, cigarettes, non-sense dialogue and lazy, unmotivated protagonists who rarely exhibit rage, confusion, or doubt given the irrational and insane things occuring in the world around him.
No amount, I mean no amount of spirituality or literary beauty can save this one. This was barely fun to read and is frustrating as all hell. How this book can be given above a 3.5 staggers me, and all the 5 reviewers are literary elitist that want to be in some sort of "I get it" club, like since I don't appriciate his crazy sh*t, I'm uncultured or incapable of higher thought. No matter the language this novel is in, no matter who describes their opinions and interpretations to me, I will never change my star rating for this book. It's a book that depends entirely on the readers interpretations. Only certain things are "fact" in this brain-pounding novel, and besides the ideas or reinvention of one's self, people can make up any reasonings and answers for this creative writing experiment and support whatever arguments they want. You can be right, you can't be wrong. You can only be mind-fu*ked.
You can't compare the two, but Norwegian Wood by Murakami runs literary, thematic, and emotionally-statisfying circles around "A Wild Sheep Chase." I need a brandy like the Sheep Man.
Fu*k this book.
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Reading Progress
April 29, 2012
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May 27, 2012
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May 27, 2012
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14.16%
"....Wtf, Murakami. Your novels are strange dreams that blend the oddest dialogue with unsetlling circumstance. I honestly don't know what is real and not real in your books. No one wirtes like you, and your stories linger with me. I have no idea where this novel is going, and as usual, probably wont know if it is a 1 star, 3, star, or 5 star until the last chapter."
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May 31, 2012
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big-let-down
May 31, 2012
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read-in-2011-or-2012
May 31, 2012
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Feb 10, 2023 02:28PM
Thank you for reviewing Mann, I am glad I didn't purchase the book yet 😅
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Agreed. But I did enjoywhen "the rat" submitted something. I have to admit I can write exactly and neurotically like that so, for me, it was humorous. The ear thing was interesting, but there rest is loosely if at all, tied together. half way through I am stopping. A waste of my time as well.
