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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Not nearly and complex or mind-bending as the Murakami novels I've read. Perhaps this is YA? But with passages like The tricky things about mazes is that you don't know if you've chosen the right path until the very end. If it turns out you were wrong, it's usually too late to go back and start again. That's the problem with mazes. it's entirely possible it's a metaphor that I'm missing entirely. And then there's the passage on the last page which makes me re-examine the whole thing (SPOLER ALERT! ABANDON SURPRISE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE!): My mother died last Tuesday...I lie here by myself in the dark....how it feels to be alone.... And because of that, I wonder if there isn't more to it than it appears, in a Murakami book that it took me Rating 3.5 It turned impossible not to read this short story being a librarian and a fan of Murakami's work. Strange, beautiful and well told, as usual in author's books. I'm not sure I liked the end, maybe it was too short to me, but I enjoyed a lot of the story and I kind of fell in love with the brains-eating-librarian, I guess all librarians want to be like him at some point... Ok, perhaps just without the brains eating part... Or perhaps not.
Haruki Murakami’s “The Strange Library” is a short story, not a novel. So why, one might wonder, has it been published as a single volume? Is contained inDistinctions
In a fantastical illustrated short novel, three people imprisoned in a nightmarish library plot their escape. No library descriptions found. |
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The Strange Library is indeed that ... strange! It is whimsical, surreal, and dark. It contains a lot of themes and symbolism that's left for the readers to analyze and interpret. The narrator is unreliable, and the ending is ambiguous.
"The sheep man has his world. I have mine. And you have yours, too...just because I don’t exist in the sheep man’s world, it doesn’t mean that I don’t exist at all."
I ended up enjoying this weird little book! It explores obedience, grief, friendship, and fear. Murakami's writing style is unique and surreal. Also, I heard that paperback and hardbound books provide a better reading experience compared to an ebook. Have you read this? Would love to hear your thoughts about it! ( )