5/23/2023 0 Comments Kafka on the shore goodreads![]() ![]() There was so much to hate about this book. ![]() Loosely based on the Oedipus myth, and taking some obvious inspiration from Catcher in the Rye, this book seems to be little more than a random hodgepodge of ideas held together with pipe cleaners and raspberry jam. It is such a mess that it makes my six-year-old son’s post-playdate bedroom look like Buckingham Palace. ![]() Only 224 pages to go! From then on, my hatred and resentment of this book progressively grew like a dead cow bloating in the heat. It took me until page 70 to stop wanting to hop up and rearrange the spice cupboard or my sock drawer every few sentences, but then the feeling returned at page 243. Few books have infected me with boredom-induced ADD, the desire to gnaw my own foot off at the ankle, and the state of mind you might experience if forced to sit upon a nest of hornets while watching your home being burglarized, but this was one of them. ![]()
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