Zach’s review of 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) > Likes and Comments

Although humorous, you made a senseless and repetitive parody of the book, and your comments lack originality.

Ok

Exactly the review we needed. Truthful, pointed, original. Also, hilarious.

Thanks, Keith - the popularity of this one is a real emperor's-new-clothes-style source of confusion for me

I quite liked the early Murakami - Hard-boiled Wonderland, Wild Sheep Chase etc. but have found the later work often hard to get on with.

Mr - definitely a worthy addition!

Keith - at one point I would have said HBWatEotW was one of my favorite novels, but now I'm afraid to revisit it (sorry for the delay, goodreads never told me you had commented on here again).

I think you missed that Aomame means green beans. And she likes bald heads on middle aged men, but only if they are shaped nice. Maybe if you read the book again you would pick up on these things and understand the deeper message of his book: that humans have sex

Yes, a work of this subtlety will definitely reward multiple re-readings.

my problem with 1Q84 was its ridiculous length. I thought I was reading a bible

What was the point of that ?

The point of this book? I have no idea.

I'm close to the end and I'm so exasperated (with the book, as well as myself for sticking with it) that I decided to hop on Goodreads to figure out what other readers see in this thing that I'm missing somehow. It looks like the answer is: "Nothing, Heather. You're missing nothing." But at least I got to read your review. Because it's spot on and hilarious.

Thanks, Heather, and agreed!

Best review I could imagine of this piece of crap.

Haha

You missed detailed description of ears and older men with receding hairlines and well-shaped heads.

Oh, boy, did I ever!

Best review of this book I have read. Hilarious!!

Thanks!

Best summary of this book 😂

Thanks, Ata!

Awesomely said. Yeah it's pretty dang annoying when male authors write in the voice of female characters, then give them incredibly contrived empty motivations lacking empathy with actual women and absurdly based on things like breasts. Like, comPLETELY transparently male childish bullsh*t sexualizing everything that no woman, well except those with body dismorphia, has thought.

"the totally otherwise average women who was obsessed about her own breasts to the point of thinking about them constantly, walked across the street, boobily." Sooooo incredibly annoying.


I think perhaps there could be a law where as a male writer, it's not legal to write the thoughts of a female character, like without some kind of disclaimer. And they could just be permitted to say "he thought she was thinking ___", "it seemed to him she was thinking __", etc, because then at least it would be clear the male authors don't know those thoughts, for sh*t, just like men in real life. Peh

Peh indeed!

Gee, thanks so much for the upfront spoilers. Information that's of no use to anyone who's read the book and decreases the enjoyment of anyone who's not. So great.

I’m sorry for spoiling the size of the women’s breasts.

Brilliant. Cheers so much for this - your review is giving me a sense that there was some enjoyment to be had from this book after all. Also, I now don't feel the need to read any more reviews, nor any more about breasts and bald heads .... or what each character wore in precise and utterly dull detail. What a relief, and cheers again for a good, restorative laff.

Oh Lord have mercy on my poor, broken soul. I am struggling through this behemoth.. and the struggle is real. I am not sure why so many reviews have mentioned that it's around 900 pages, yet the edition I am reading is exactly 1157 pages of very small print. That's almost an entire book worth of difference in page count. I'm around page 700 right now. all I can do is sit here and fume about how apparently everybody else read a 900 page version, but here I am. I am grasping for meaning within these pages, but after 700 pages of bewilderment, then flipping through a few dozen reviews, I no longer think I am the problem here. Also, your review was by far my favorite as it had me cackling aloud :D

Thank you both!

Average book at best. Great review at worst

Thank you!

Double-liked for the amazing repostes in the Comments section, Zach.

I'm gonna try this out as I'm on a Murakami binge... but the criticism I read sounds really infuriating.

Thanks, Marie! Cliche as it sounds, I really loved Murakami's older work but he lost me somewhere along the way.

Yup - pretty much!

I made a good reads account just so i could comment on the brilliantness of this review.

Wow, thanks!

I am past book 2 out of 3 and it's killing me.. I just can't continue. I just really DON'T want to hear word boobs anymore. I can't deal with this

I'm afraid I have bad news about book 3, my friend

This is a brilliant review, thank you! I've just finished 1Q84 and didn't hate it, but the review is funny and spot on.

Thank you!

I enjoyed the book but this is a brilliant synopsis

Thank you!

I am confused why you only gave it 1 star. Your review makes it sound amazing.

damn this powerful prose of mine

:D

I think many of your one star ratings may be hyperbole, but I find your text reviews meaningful!

I just calls it like I sees it (and thanks)!

Omg, I'm dying! Bahahahah!

This is brilliant 😂🤣

Thank you!

This is great. I listened to it. It is... Wait for it... 45 hours of listening . 45. It's only savings grace were the readers .

and you made it through the whole thing?! I admire your perseverance!