Men Without Women: Stories

It was... interesting. I'm not sure I loved it, but I read the whole thing, so something about it kept me going. It has that classic Murakami feel - surreal, a little melancholic, and quietly strange. 1. Drive My Car - You can forgive the lies. What really breaks you is never knowing why. 2. Yesterday - Youth makes promises it never intends to keep. 3. An Independent Organ - He thought he was immune to love. Until it killed him. 4. Scheherazade - When reality shuts you away, stories can become your only lifeline. 5. Kino - Sometimes, escaping your life means facing everything you've tried to bury. 6. Samsa in Love - Becoming human might be the strangest thing a man can do. 7. Men Without Women - After she left, all that remained was the space she used to fill. My final thought - The book didn't break my heart, but it left a quiet ache behind.

enjoyable collection of short stories, some i liked more than others. the first story, drive my car, was probably my favorite. i enjoyed the prose in the last story, men without women. sometimes though i dont love murakami’s descriptions of certain things (re body parts) but i’m a prude so that’s probably why.

nice to listen to an audiobook again it’s been a while

One of my favorite books ever. I don't know how to describe it, it just touched my soul.

nothing extraordinary but oddly comforting all the same, it made me want to write and that is the highest compliment i can give to a book.

creative and quirky, yet thought provoking. Just what I expect from Murakami. This collection of short stories includes 'Drive my car' which was made into a Oscar winning movie recently.