tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114353219480265259.post8407707543867713806..comments2024-01-07T14:25:51.724-08:00Comments on Sgt. Tanuki's Lonely Hearts Club Blog: Murakami Haruki: 1Q84 (revisited)Tanukihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00010917992146986329noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114353219480265259.post-44660846912761375872013-10-10T14:09:21.695-07:002013-10-10T14:09:21.695-07:00I did . I'm reading 1q84(1st book) and it'...I did . I'm reading 1q84(1st book) and it's very similar to 20cb (the lider = Friend)juankihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17342697614574251769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114353219480265259.post-86120999329589156072012-12-13T19:14:47.144-08:002012-12-13T19:14:47.144-08:00I happened to read 1Q84 and Naoki Urasawa's 20...I happened to read 1Q84 and Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys at the same time last fall. Aside from stories he published in the New Yorker, it was my first time reading Murakami . And I enjoyed 1Q84 more than you did - probably because I knew so little about his earlier work. <br />I know you read some of Billy Bat by Urasawa a while back and I was wondering if you ever read 20th Century Boys. I ask because I noticed dozens and dozens of similarities between the 1Q84 and 20CB. So many that it seems noteworthy even if I don't know what to make of it. It just seems remarkable that two major works by two major Japanese writers working at the same time would have so many things (for example: cults, strangely powerful manuscripts, boobs, songs, certain names, things that happened to the characters when they were 10 shaping the rest of their lives and much more) in common. I've looked around to see if anyone else has noticed this but I can't find anything. I don't read Japanese - surely its been mentioned by Japanese critics, right?<br /><br /><br /><br />Book Gluttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14569975755798562829noreply@blogger.com