Kafka on the Shore
2001 • 468 pages

Ratings650

Average rating4

15

if you want to enjoy the book, don't read Crow's plot, read Nakata's(the old man's plot). I'd give it a 4 if Kafka on the Shore was more about Nakata's psychedelic adventures

Nakata's plot is great, very surreal and dream-like, very open to interpretation

Could be a cultural thing but man do all of these sexual descriptions in the Crow's plot feel so unnatural and weird. It starts of small and escalates to sex scenes of a 15(if i recall) year old boy with women who are like twice his age(one of the scenes explaining all that as, *well actually the woman is mentally still a teenager*)

Screwed up is all I can say

February 18, 2025