Title: Haven't we read this all before?
Product review: Street cool characters drink, do drugs and have a lot of group sex - then the protagonist decides there must be more to life than that.Well, yeah.This novel aspires to Camus "L'Etranger" but without the philosophical underpinning we're left with pure derivation. There's the same tone of voice, the same sensuousness of description, the same criticism of contemporary values, but no ideas beneath the surface. Given the 20 year gap, Murakami can be more graphic than Camus, but painting the vomit in greener tones only makes things more cartoon-like.
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