About the Episode

You don’t always need a plane ticket to travel; sometimes, all you need is a book. Often, fiction books can help us explore world's outside our own, take us out of life’s everyday tangles, and allow us to widen our perspective. Seventh stop, Asia!  We hope you enjoy this discussion about '1Q84' by Haruki Murakami.

About the Book

This was our biggest disagreement yet, and widest split in rankings. Murakami's most ambitious work is love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s 1984. The book was an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of the most revered contemporary writers. 

About Good Scribes Only

Hosted by novelists and entrepreneurs Daniel Breyer & Jeremy Streich, Good Scribes Only is a podcast for curious minds to explore, challenge, and think differently through books. Sometimes even traveling to a place doesn't permit you to see it for how it really is for those who live there. Fiction, on the other hand, can. And thus, season 3 is about widening our perspective. We hope you're coming along and can help do the same. Be sure to check out the Episode Cheat Sheet for an overview.

Episodes Notes

0-5 min — Introduction feelings

5-10 min — Murakami’s style

10-20 min — Casting the “movie”

20-25 min — Book I and Book II Plot summary

25-30 min — On the author

30-35 min — The best chapter

35-40 min — Book III summary

40-45 min — Religion and Power

45-50 min — Passages on writing and ghostwriting

50-55 min — Problems with the book

55-60 min — Style of the novel

60-66 min — Conclusion and Rating

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