This is the second book that I’ve read by Murakami and it won’t be the last. His writing makes me feel as though I’m walking around in a Salvador Dali painting, very surreal. Or maybe it’s more like I’m under water. Don’t think another writer has ever evoked such feelings. Whatever it is, I’m defini...
What is the story about? It's hard to say believe it or not. Toru keeps receiving mysterious sex phone calls from someone he doesn't know. He and his wife, Kumiko's, cat is missing, and they can't find it. He meets a girl, May, who refuses to go to school, and counts balding men for a wig company. K...
I’m not sure if it’s even possible to write a review in the traditional sense of the word where this book is concerned. I’m sure someone more attuned to their intellectual self, someone who can separate their visceral reaction from an objective one and look at this novel purely as a work of reviewab...
Poor Okada, his cat's run away!Whate'er shall he do to find it?Poor Okada, his wife's gone astray!(And the wind-up bird, someone unwind it!)Murakami, this book is so long; why?And the women are so very strange!Phone sex, facial marks, and wells? Sigh.I think you have quite gone off range.Okada, I sy...
Considered Murakami's first epic "in pursuit of a Nobel," Wind-Up Bird Chronicle takes the crowd-pleasing realism of Norwegian Wood and adds the historical sensibility of Western literature, to end up with a quirky, quixotic yet eminently readable lengthy epic concerning Japan's expedition to Nomonh...
Oh God, why? It's all Kafka On The Shore again (I will admit Kafka is a much better read than this).I don't know why people think this is such a great read. How many times did the main character has to tell how he cook his spaghetti or how worn out his tennis shoes again? Now, I see Murakami has a t...
If I were to use only one word to describe this book, I would type the word 'brilliant' a million times with each letter in CAPITALS and fill up the entire word length of this particular space. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle in all its sensitivity, emotional depth and keen understanding of the complicat...
Just as good the second time around! Love Murakami. The writing is beautiful and it can be very surreal but the story is fantastic. After a break I'll probably re read some of his other books.
I don't even know what to say about this book. It was really really weird but I liked it. There were several points where I couldn't put the book down. Very surreal story. The language was very simple yet the story between the words was very complex it seems. Some gruesome points too.All in all, pro...
Enjoyable reading experience. Nice sense of mystery, rich, sensual detail, and artful theming. The climax of the novel was exciting and satisfying. The denouement was an odd mix of too much and not enough information to wrap up the story. I'm very picky about denouements- this one wasn't terribl...
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