Combine an offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose, and the result is the remarkable story Dance Dance Dance: high-class call girls billed to MasterCard, a psychic 13-year-old dropout has a passion for talking heads and meet a hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers.
Don't forget the one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem.
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(Whole Story Audiobooks, 7 July 2016, 12 hours 45 minutes, audiobook, bought from @audibleuk, narrated by Rupert Degas)
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I'm a massive fan of the author and I still have a few titles from his back story to get through. I usually read his fiction. This is the first time I've listened to an audiobook of his work. The experience is the same. It was sheer pleasure to listen to Dance Dance Dance. I raced through it in a week because I didn't want the experience to end. There's something I really love about the way Murakami writes, something that pulls me in and refuses to let go. This has the trademarks of his work; incredible prose, weird events that never quite make sense but are compelling anyway and an odd range of characters you never quite like or trust but connect with anyway. I loved this.
