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Dance Dance Dance

by Haruki Murakami

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cpav55 recommends A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami, "Dance Dance Dance (Dans Dans Dans) maakt met Pinball 1973 en De jacht op het verloren schaap min of meer deel uit van de serie, maar het zijn wel losstaande (see more) verhalen."

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A freelance writer from Tokyo is drawn back to the Dolphin Hotel in Sapporo, but the old hotel has been torn down a a new one bearing the same name now occupies the spot. He's entangled in knots and tries to unwind them to find some internal peace. He meets new people while searching for a woman that he met at the old Dolphin, a receptionist at the new Dolphin, a 13 year old girl from a broken home (mother an artist, father a writer), his old school friend who's now an actor, the 13 year old's family. The book has fantastical elements to it, but they could just be his external projection of his internal struggles. Until others are drawn into it.
It's a pretty dark book, and not a whole lot happens, but interesting to read. (

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silentq | Aug 18, 2009 |

I just couldn't quite get through this one. Everyone seems to rave about Murakami, but he's just not my cup of tea. The writing was precise and thoughtful, but the story was not very gripping, to say the least, besides being depressing, and the characters too bland to take any interest in. Some good philosophical moments here and there but not a novel I would recommend. (

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nicole_a_davis | Jul 23, 2009 |

Not his best work. I found it to be too slow and bogged down in philosophy to be compelling. Not a bad book per se, but a letdown from a truly great author. (

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MellowOwl | Jul 23, 2009 |

Found this book extremely gripping. Murakami made the most mundane of things sound philosophical, almost, and sometimes just downright funny. Not ha-ha funny, but the kind of funny, like laughing at your own miserable life.

Awesome book. (

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mich_yms | Jul 15, 2009 |

If you intend to read this book in English, consider listening to the Rupert Degas-narrated audiobook version instead (available as a download from Audible and on CD from Amazon). On paper the book is entertaining enough, but Degas's wonderful reading raises it to a higher level. (

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CarrieAPreston | Jun 2, 2009 |

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Series (with order)

Canonical Title

Dance Dance Dance

Original publication date

1988

1994 (English: Birnbaum)

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Honolulu, Oahu, Hawai'i, USA

The Dolphin Hotel

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I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.

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"But when I think back on my life, it's like I didn't make one choice. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and it scares me. Where's the first-person "I"? Where's the beef?"
Gotanda, p146, Vintage ed.

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Canonical title	Dance Dance Dance
Original publication date	1988, 1994 (English: Birnbaum)
People/Characters	Kiki, The Sheep Man, Yuki, Yumiyoshi, Gotanda
Important places	Tokyo, Japan, Sapporo, Japan, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawai'i, USA, The Dolphin Hotel
First words	I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.
Quotations	"But when I think back on my life, it's like I didn't make one choice. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and it scares me. Where's the first-person "I"? Where's the beef?" Gotanda, p146, Vintage ed.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0679753796, Paperback)

In this propulsive novel by the author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Elephant Vanishes, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller, and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table.

As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls; plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic; and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.

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