Mixedthis short Story collection was a little uneven like most short story collections but it had some of the murakami charm and some of the just enthralling tales and the few forgettable Tales
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First Person Singular (2021)
Creators: Mixed NATIONAL BEST SELLER • A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author. • “Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it.” —The Wall Street Journal The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist.
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Mixedi found the reading experience to be quite effortless which is good although i must admit that this is by no means my favorite short story book because on the whole reading this book was an okay experience for me and that is because there were some stories that i definitely liked but then there were others that i didn't really care for much
MixedFirst Person Singular is okay, but not excellent. Murakami in his flop era, I fear. It kinda feels like an AI was given the task of writing a Murakami book, and this is what it came up with, which isn't necessarily a good elevator pitch.
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There’s not a whole lot to say story wise. A young man drinks a lot of beer and has strange conversations with a mysterious young lady he just met. So, classic Murakami.
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