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.
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.
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