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Dance Dance Dance
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 895.635
EAN: 9780679753797
ISBN: 0679753796
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: January 31, 1995
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: January 31, 1995
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
In this propulsive novel by the author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Elephant Vanishes, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller, and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table.As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls; plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic; and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Three cheers for the Sheep Man
I've said it before, I truly do like Murakami alot because he likes writing these normal situations like eating donuts and reading a newspaper and watching TV in his stories but for some odd reason it just never gets boring. This book is the sequel to "The Wild Sheep Chase" which became one of my favorite books this year. And yes, it does connect to everything eventually. Still, as most sequels go, I liked the first book better and I do think it could have gone without this little book. But I bet ... Read More
Rating: - Japan's Magic Man
I read a couple other Murakami novels and they glanced off me, but this one stuck. An unnamed narrator, adrift in modern Tokyo, dreams of a girlfriend who disappeared years ago. He returns to the hotel where he last saw her and there discovers a secret floor that's a gateway to another dimension. On this floor he encounters the Sheep Man, making a return appearance from Murakami's earlier novel A Wild Sheep Chase. Our protagonist searches for his lost girlfriend, befriends a teenage psychic, ... Read More
Rating:  - Not Your Normal Senior Prom
We interrupt this review for a Public Service Announcement. It is STRONGLY recommended that you read Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase before reading this book. While not 100% necessary, your enjoyment of DDD will be greatly enhanced! We now return you to your regularly scheduled review.
I got so wrapped up in the book I almost thought I was a part of it. There was that gnawing at the edge of my mind - a glimmer of understanding. Then an insight: I am in the book! Murakami has a way of writing ... Read More
Rating: - if only we all understood japanese
this is my second haruki murakami novel, having previously read "norwegian wood". i wont go into detail about how much i enjoyed the novel, which is apparent anyway from my rating, but i do want to agree with the reviewer who mentioned that the english text is abridged.
i read the novel in the mandarin-chinese translated edition, and though i ( not being able to read japanese) obviously cannot be certain that the chinese version isn't somewhat abridged as well, after comparing segments of the book ... Read More
Rating:  - it's no "Hard Boiled Wonderland..."
The hotel in Murakami's Dance, Dance, Dance seems to have been built by the same guy that built Danielewski's House of Leaves.
I didn't enjoy this one as much as Hard-Boiled Wonderland... but it still had some entertaining moments and was certainly worth the read.
That said, I didn't feel that it was a particularly special or memorable werk.
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