Try as I might, I still can’t work out this book. I finished it a week or more ago and it still doesn’t make all that much sense to me. With that said and the litany of reviews out there concerning it, I’m going to make this review fairly short. The plots starts out strangely, in true Murakami sty...
The book was wonderfully weird and pulled me right in. It reminded me of Kafka at times with its blurred lines between dream and reality. I really loved the symbolism and themes the story played with. Murakami uses water, light, darkness, storytelling, and states of consciousness beautifully. The ch...
It’s been almost two days since i finished this book but neither i am able to write a review nor i am letting it go. So here i am with my scattered thoughts about this book, writing whatever i felt like when i read it. Okay so how should I say how it was? Bizarre? Vivid? Dreamlike? Nightmarish? Or m...
I received this book as a Xmas present and started reading it in early January. For one reason or the other, I put it down, and only recently picked it back up again. Today I finally finished it! I must admit that this was a very strange read, perhaps even stranger for me than 'An Invitation to A Be...
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is a wildly imaginative tale straddling the known and apparent world and a shadow world where strange, malevolent and sometimes inexplicable forces are at work. On its face, the tale concerns a jilted, cuckolded husband whose cat and then his wife disappear. Trying to un...
“Please come with me. We have so little time. Hurry.” This is one of those books that renders the 500 word review pitifully obsolete, you’ve just got to scoff this one for yourself. Murakami (your park running friends may know him from “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”) has been describe...
this was much easier to read when I was sequestered in a cabin in the woods, but that says more about my distractable-ness than the book. I find Murakami's books to be soothing because the protagonists tend to be so calm no matter what weird things happen. they just take a day or so, think about thi...
this was much easier to read when I was sequestered in a cabin in the woods, but that says more about my distractable-ness than the book. I find Murakami's books to be soothing because the protagonists tend to be so calm no matter what weird things happen. they just take a day or so, think about thi...
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