A Wild Sheep Chase

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User Review - donhazelwood - LibraryThing

This book ... this book ... this book came at me like Kurt Vonnegut on Risperidone telling his version of Moby Dick. A great read - I don't quite know what Murakami was trying to say - but I throughly ... Read full review

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User Review - Aug3Zimm - LibraryThing

Intellectually interesting but not emotionally engaging. One thing I really enjoy about Murakami is how he portrays a sense of disconnectedness between people. That feeling was more prevalent in the ... Read full review

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User Review - CharlotteBurt - LibraryThing

As you would expect from Murakami this is a strange tale, but a good read nonetheless. All about the search for a specific sheep with a star on its back. This has everything you would expect with a ... Read full review

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User Review - superpeer - LibraryThing

Murakami's first widely published novel. It took me a while to get into this one, the first 30 pages or so went very slowly. This is the fourth book by him I've read and it seems to me that Murakami ... Read full review

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User Review - modioperandi - LibraryThing

Reading Murakami is like falling into a dream, while being wide awake, holding a book in your hand! Murakami is not for those who want the usual in their story telling. Much of the story line is very ... Read full review

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User Review - Muhrrynn - LibraryThing

Some laugh-out-loud lines, and a twisting, twining plot. Someone in another review said it was like experiencing someone else's dream, and that was apt. Still altogether enjoyable. Read full review

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User Review - Big_Bang_Gorilla - LibraryThing

In which a young man becomes involved in finding a sheep in a remote part of Hokkaido at the behest of a sinister corporation founded by a dying tycoon who is obsessed with being possessed with sheep ... Read full review

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User Review - MiaCulpa - LibraryThing

I was somewhat unprepared to read "A wild sheep chase". I was in South Korea in the pre-kindle age and would read absolutely anything in English, so when a friend passed me this example of Japanese ... Read full review

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User Review - Berly - LibraryThing

You truly have to put aside reality to read Murakami's books sometimes. For instance, this book centers around a special sheep that one very influential guy may have encountered 40 years ago and it ... Read full review