![]() Degas just never gets the mood of the work right, to my mind. Other narrators have done Murakami really, really well (1Q84, with multiple readers, is terrific, as is Kafka By the Shore with Sean Barrett and Oliver Le Sueur ). The tone throughout is much too theatrical and feverish for the quiet deeps, wry humor and reflective unfolding of this tale.I loved reading this book - Murakami's stories never seem abstract and 'experimental' in the off-putting way at all and I can never put them down. Murakami's wonderfully delicate, mysterious and absorbing novel is terribly marred by the narration here Degas renders the main character unpleasantly arch and snarky initially and seems to be struggling without success to find the right voice for him throughout children and teens have voices like obnoxious TV cartoon characters, and both female and children's voices are indicated by a very rapid, jerky, breathy, oddly pitched delivery that's just all wrong and actually jarring. ![]() ![]() If you could sum up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in three words, what would they be? ![]()
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