Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
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Average rating4
Underground – 5 Stars:
This is a massive undertaking from Murakami. I was very impressed to read about the background of the project—how it came together, why it mattered, and how it evolved over time.
Murakami brings together a wide range of perspectives, driven by curiosity and a deep social need to shed light on a terrible event. He’s at his most restrained here—professional, fair, and meticulous, inserting his thoughts in an open and non-sneaky way, never mixing opinion with fact, never playing politics.
One of the defining traits of Murakami’s work is his indifference to convention and expectation, and here he pushes that mindset to the limit, assembling a memorable, surprising, and thought-provoking book filled with wisdom and social awareness.
I’ve always found Murakami’s nonfiction deeply impressive. He has so many ideas and the bravery to explore them openly, even at the risk of being seen as a hyper-individualistic weirdo.
Keep up your weirdness, Murakami-san. The Nobel committee may not value it, but a lot of people around the world do.
Underground – 5 Stars:
This is a massive undertaking from Murakami. I was very impressed to read about the background of the project—how it came together, why it mattered, and how it evolved over time.
Murakami brings together a wide range of perspectives, driven by curiosity and a deep social need to shed light on a terrible event. He’s at his most restrained here—professional, fair, and meticulous, inserting his thoughts in an open and non-sneaky way, never mixing opinion with fact, never playing politics.
One of the defining traits of Murakami’s work is his indifference to convention and expectation, and here he pushes that mindset to the limit, assembling a memorable, surprising, and thought-provoking book filled with wisdom and social awareness.
I’ve always found Murakami’s nonfiction deeply impressive. He has so many ideas and the bravery to explore them openly, even at the risk of being seen as a hyper-individualistic weirdo.
Keep up your weirdness, Murakami-san. The Nobel committee may not value it, but a lot of people around the world do.
