Shirley Revill's Reviews > Killing Commendatore
Killing Commendatore
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Thoughts while reading.
Your wife she left
I did too
I came back to finish you
Paintings on walls
Men two foot high
My brains been pulped
I give a cry
I've not been drinking
That wouldn't do
But I might before I finish you.
Shirley.
Review to follow when I finish the story.
Update.
If I never achieve anything else in my life I achieved finishing this book. In fact I got to the end of the audiobook some days ago and have since been wondering what to say. I have looked at many five star reviews regarding this story but unfortunately it was not for me. It's far too long and needs to lose at least 200 pages, maybe more. The storyline was very,very slow and I still don't fully understand what I have been listening too.
On a plus note many people have given this book five stars and I am definitely in the minority.
It was extremely well written even though it was rather slow. The narrator had a wonderful voice that kept me listening. So apologies to all the fans of this book for not enjoying this book as much as everyone else. It would be a very sad world if we where all the same. Awarding three stars and I sincerely wish it could have been more.
Your wife she left
I did too
I came back to finish you
Paintings on walls
Men two foot high
My brains been pulped
I give a cry
I've not been drinking
That wouldn't do
But I might before I finish you.
Shirley.
Review to follow when I finish the story.
Update.
If I never achieve anything else in my life I achieved finishing this book. In fact I got to the end of the audiobook some days ago and have since been wondering what to say. I have looked at many five star reviews regarding this story but unfortunately it was not for me. It's far too long and needs to lose at least 200 pages, maybe more. The storyline was very,very slow and I still don't fully understand what I have been listening too.
On a plus note many people have given this book five stars and I am definitely in the minority.
It was extremely well written even though it was rather slow. The narrator had a wonderful voice that kept me listening. So apologies to all the fans of this book for not enjoying this book as much as everyone else. It would be a very sad world if we where all the same. Awarding three stars and I sincerely wish it could have been more.
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Quotes Shirley Liked
“I was desperately clinging to a scrap of wood that had been swept away. In pitch-black darkness, not a single star, or the moon, visible in the sky. As long as I clung to that piece of wood I wouldn’t drown, but I had no clue where I was, where I was heading.”
― Killing Commendatore
― Killing Commendatore
Reading Progress
October 19, 2018
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Started Reading
October 19, 2018
– Shelved
October 19, 2018
– Shelved as:
audiobook
October 20, 2018
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65.0%
October 24, 2018
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85.0%
October 25, 2018
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90.0%
October 28, 2018
– Shelved as:
fiction
October 28, 2018
– Shelved as:
thought-provoking
October 28, 2018
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Finished Reading
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I love this. It’s mysterious.
Have you read anything by this author Peter? It's a first for me. ☺
I love this. It’s mysterious."
Thank you Shaina. 😂
Thank you Paula. 😊
Thank you Jaline ☺
Thank you Ingrid. I can't believe I finished the story. 😊
Thank you Diane! ☺
That's exactly how I felt Catherine. In the end it became a challenge to finish it. I also felt really guilty because so many people loved it. ☺
Not for me I'm afraid and I'm having guilt feelings because so many other people loved this book. ☺
You are so right Billy. Wasn't my cup of tea at all. 😊
It feels so good to know that someone felt exactly the same as I did. Thank you for that Tall. 😊
His works are often very slow, such as "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" (my first Murakami read) which constantly feels like it's building to something happening, but literally nothing ever does - I found myself extremely frustrated at this, yet somehow fell in love with his writing! As for not fully understanding, that's not much different to pretty much everything he writes..
So basically, I'm hoping that this was your first time reading him and he's just not your cup of tea, rather than you being a fan that feels this way about this one particular book. I plan to read this very soon so I really hope to disagree with your review (though that being said, NEVER apologise for not liking something as much as others do - if anybody takes offence to that then they're just petty and their opinions almost certainly aren't worth paying any mind to. And as you said, it'd be a sad world if we all agreed on everything!)
Christina, the more I think about this book, the better I like it. There are so many images stuck in my head. I've literally become the narrator (never named) in the book, and like the quote Shirley "liked". Neither the narrator nor me has any idea where we are going. No one does. what's the saying, "Man plans, God changes them." we can plan and plan and plan to the very last detail, but it won't matter: the theory of chaos is in control and everything in our lives just becomes more chaotic. This might be my favorite Murakami after all, it's been 6 months since I read it and it rocked my world. Today, I woke up and thought I was in the narrator's neighbor's guest room.
Repetition....yes, there is a lot of it, like in real life. Like in bills due the first of the month. Like in "Every time I go to the grocery store I get in the longest line" (an exaggeration many of us repeat often.) Repetition of certain activities is the thing that helps us manage through the chaos.