It's the quest for such shared experience, between writer and reader in the dream world they inhabit together, that explains why we read fiction - that magical carpet whisking us from the lonely prison of the self into the hearts and minds of others. Like we're simultaneously sharing feelings." "It feels like I'm experiencing someone else's dream. "There is a sense of time wavering irregularly when you forge ahead," she continues. "I don't know exactly how to put it," says one character of how time changes when reading Proust - one of Murakami's many self-referential jokes about the joys and challenges of sticking with big books like this one. Lose yourself in the nearly 1,000 pages of Murakami's alternately mesmerizing and menacing world, living for large stretches of each day with its characters, and time actually shifts and becomes harder to measure - one of the many themes, as it happens, in this big and brilliant book. During the past few weeks, I've spent somewhere between 50 and 70 hours lost in the world of "1Q84," the much-anticipated Haruki Murakami novel paying homage to George Orwell's "1984."
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