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Bought and finished yesterday, seeing as it's only 90 or so pages depending on the edition. So good.
I'll see if I can find it online, I read some criticism on it talking about all this subtext about the old ways of fishing which the old man does, and the new industrialized fisheries that were emerging at the time. There's all this stuff about Dimaggio too. I guess scholars figured out the date each day of the story takes place based on the stuff he says about the Yankee's pennant race.
Try and check a used bookstore in your area, it'll be cheap and reading a hard copy cannot be beat. Criticism in what way though? That how the old man fishing is not accurate to the time period? If there are discrepancies there are discrepancies, but that in now way takes away from the story. But anyway, definitely try and get a hold of it, printed or not.
Five chapters into 1Q84, loving it so far. Saying Marukami's writing is easy to read would almost be discrediting it, but it's smooth and digestible without being obvious. Does that make sense?