A Murakami Minute: 1Q84 Book Three

So I forget where we left off, but book three opens with Ushikawa.

And now he is a alternating character in the book, whereas before he was in the book as a character.

Now you actually get his perspective.

So the first book was just Tango, Amome, and then every other chapter was one of them and what they're doing.

But now it's three of them.

Those two and then Ushikawa.

And he starts off, and this is where it got really sloggy for me.

Because while interesting, it was Amome's doing this.

Tango's doing this and Ushikawa's doing this but it was all the same exact thing just from each one's perspective so it's like oh Tango climbs up on a slide and looks at the moon and then the next chapter is Amomi watches Tango climb up a slide and look at the moon and the third one is Ushikawa watches both of like well

not even that because like you said sometimes they get weird with time so it's just like it could be like Tango is on the side looking at the moon.

And then two Amami chapters later, she's looking at Tango on the moon.

And you're just like, this happened already.

Yeah, because it would go to Ushikawa following Tango.

And then you get the scene replayed again.

And then she would come in and you'd get her version of the scene.

And it did that for half of this book.

And it was really annoying.

I did not care for that.

I didn't need the reiteration that much.

And that's what my initial complaint with this book was.

Though it was still interesting.

The story was interesting.

And we mentioned that we talked about the software.

So Ushikawa is written as the most like detestable looking person.

And his personality is not very good.