I really enjoyed this surreal and charming novel. After just finishing reading it, my initial thought is that the charm of the story will be the thing I will end up remembering it for. As an actual story, not a lot actually happens - like an episode of Seinfeld set in the Twilight Zone. Haruki Murak...
I loved it. Terribly confusing and totally strange at times I was fascinated. Even when I was busy with other things I found my mind wandering back to the story. Always wondering where is this all going? This was my first book from Haruki murakami and I'm looking forward to reading his other books...
Freakin' awesome. I love how many characters there are, though I wish I could read it in Japanese, cos some of the sentences are funny. The story though, is beautiful.
bookshelves: translation, summer-2010, published-1992, wwii, magical-realism, bullies, families, fraudio, gorefest, historical-fiction, revenge, war, women Read from June 27 to 29, 2010 Opens with La Gazza Ladra by Rossini (The Thieving Magpie) Bullet points are the only way forward for recappi...
I really enjoyed this novel. It has a good combination of Murakami's signature character development as as well as his surrealistic style. Okada, our male main character almost seems like your typical Murakami disconnected male character -- at least he seems that way, at first. While he does have...
Honestly, the overwhelming desire to shake the protagonist until his teeth fell out and he stopped being such a selfish whittering whiner made this incredibly hard to get into. Everyone else seems at least interesting (although I side-eye the Manic Pixie Dream Girl), but right now I just cannot plou...
"When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and go to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom." (p 66)There are no towers in Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, though; it's concerned with wells.Well, it's concerned with this dude who can't find his c...
Reading a Murakami novel is like stepping into a lucid dream. The setting, characters, and events are realistic yet eerily off center. Anything can happen. Unlike Isabelle Allende or Gabriel García Márquez, Murakami doesn't write magical realism; rather, he's the very definition of Kafkaesque. Wh...
My first Murakami and I was beyond satisfied. Not sure when was the last time I read a book so fulfilling, so intriguing, it occupied my mind to the brink! It did certainly feel like I hadn't enough room in my brain to store such enormous, bizarre information. Also, I couldn't think of such a better...
Here’s my pathetic attempt at writing a review after struggling for close to three hours:The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is not a book. It’s a pendulum that looks like a book. And staring at it for too long is bound to leave you hypnotized.I honestly don’t know what else to say. I’m not even sure if I un...
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