This work is not for the casual reader. It's a very dense work as well as having a lot going on on multiple levels beyond the superficial story. The story starts out slow as we are presented with parallel narratives of the two important characters, Tengo and Aomame. It starts out slow as the stor...
3.5**This is a very hard review to write. I really wanted to like Murakami and this book was a lengthy intro.I found it difficult to get into the overall flow; there were so many pieces of the story that I thought would later be relevant but were placed into the narrative in a way that I would chara...
11% finished and wow...I can't even find a plot or a purpose to go on...I'm even distracted by lip balm and not engaged with any of the characters.