High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance. It is an assault on the sense, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car. (20021018)
##看英譯本纔深刻感受到村上對Raymond Chandler的愛
##"yougottadance. aslongasthemusicplays. yougottadance. weknowyou'retired, tiredandscared. happenstoeveryone, okay? justdon'tletyourfeestop. "
##i like yuki best
##村上春樹的書真不適閤心情低落時閱讀——越讀胸口越有如被灌鉛般感受,整個人想大聲呐喊。海豚酒店、羊人、雪、中年人頹廢的心情⋯⋯
##很好讀但不至於用詞平淡,喜歡這個版本。另外penguin的vintage印刷太好聞瞭,讀之前要猛吸一口,屬於是中毒瞭。
##看英譯本纔深刻感受到村上對Raymond Chandler的愛
##中文喜歡長句,英語更多短句,英文翻譯纔能讀齣來村上有多喜歡雷濛錢德勒。林少華的也不錯,但真的就像兩個世界。
##終於看齣來 Raymond chandler 是真愛瞭
##Murakami is suitable for loneliness. Reading Yuki, Rock music, death, Kiki, sheepman over and over. But I still haven't a clue about the sheepman and six skeletons. Not good enough to understand every details, anyhow I shall read Chinese version on my way.