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- Length: 46 hrs and 45 mins
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The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question.
Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.
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A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell's, 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami's most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.
BONUS AUDIO: Audible interviews the translators of 1Q84, Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel.
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- Madeleine
- 2019-03-08
Soft porn pretentiousness
Wow, couldn't get beyond the first few chapters. After wading through tedious descriptions of nothing much, I hoped that the story was building to something worth the anticipation, but found instead, to my great disappointment, that it was just leading to the author's creepy sexual fantasies and obsessions. After listening to get another description of breasts and older men lusting after teenage girls, I'd had quite enough. Our female protagonist suddenly asks a much older man if he has a large cock and wants to see it. For goodness sake, if this isn't the self-indulgent fantasy of an aging male author, I don't know what is! I was expecting something more cerebral than this garbage.
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- Greg C.
- 2020-08-20
Bechdel Test Fail
If you're looking for well written female characters, look elsewhere because this is both dated and disconcerting.
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- Odessa
- 2021-01-06
Questionable perspective
I gave it about 1/4 of the book before I stopped. Female characters who are consistently overly preoccupied with their breasts, sexualization of under age girls, much talk of incest, child abuse and rape, and grossly inappropriate body shaming of disabled folk. And the story really isn’t that compelling. Not enough to continue through the authors world view.
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- Aaron Upward
- 2018-04-25
Weird and Wonderful
I couldn't begin to describe this book to someone, but the sheer completeness of this story is beautiful. At times it is thrilling, at times it is boring yet still it keeps me glued to my headphones, at time intriguing and weird, it feels like going down the rabbit hole and you can't put it down because you need to see where it leads.
Not only the story, but the narration is a treasure, the narrators have naturally calming tones that bring a sense of peace to my daily commutes.
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- Bhuvana
- 2020-11-23
Terrible.
The characters are uncompelling. The story is boring, slow, and dry. The writing (maybe translation?) is overly descriptive and repetitive. The number of descriptions of women’s breasts goes beyond obscene to flat out sexism as though women think of nothing else in their time. The narrators are flat and manage to make the bad story worse, particularly because the audio goes from being audible to inaudible within the same chapter based on the narrators’ volume. Avoid.
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- Robert
- 2018-03-01
My new gold standard for audio book performance.
I had read some other reviews prior to listening the 1Q84 and all I can say is, grossly under-rated! Outstanding story with best in class narration all around. I loved this audio book!
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- Joanne
- 2017-10-23
Lovely story
Simply amazing, I throughly enjoyed every moment.
I hope to listen to more works by Murakami
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- Langer MD
- 2019-09-02
I read "War and Peace", so...
This book is long. Exceedingly long. But not painfully so.There are only a couple of plot threads that seem unnecessary, and the flow between the two main storylines is great. At the perfect moment, it switches to the other story. Performances by the readers in these separate plotlines is very good.
A couple of people have mentioned they were turned off by some of the sexuality. To them I say "Come on, people. This is Japan, the birthplace of Hentai"! Pretty tame actually.
I've read this book described as "weird" and it is. Murakami almost seems to be following a "free association" method. Did he plan out the next part of the story, or just go with it, making it up as he went along?
BIT OF A SPOILER BELOW:
In the end he ties most of the loose ends, but it's a Deus Ex Machina resolution. They just leave. A little unsatisfying given the quality of the character development and the feeling of "What is going on here?"
Despite a couple of small issues, I really liked it. 8.5 out of 10 stars
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- Leda Anne
- 2022-06-29
Don't trust the negative reviews
So funny the negative reviews I read are people that didn't read the whole book.
This book has been a good friend, when dealing with a strange world. The funny thing is my world came full circle in a good way when I finished this book. I feel connected to the collective subconscious reading it somehow.
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- Joseph Duong
- 2020-12-26
Why does anyone like this book?
Lots of repeating pointless details. Author seems to think sexualizing everything makes for good writing. Lots of loose ends that are never tied up. A lot of characters and sections of the book did not need to be there
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