Classic Murakami

This is my second book of his( Kafka on the shore was the first). With Murakami you kinda know what you get, a somewhat likable/unlikable main character, some perversion, Suden deaths, the title being a real world song and a great story. If you like murakamis other work you are going to like this as well.

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An empty shell of a book consisting of weird sex

When I read Kafka on the shore I was like: "Well I guess these weird sex scenes are necessary to make the story work". In this book, the story is completely removed and replaced by ever repeating, boring storylines with the least relatable characters I ever came across. It's just a vehicle for sex. The focus is put on a set of over-the-top damsel-in-distress type women, that manage to be both crazy and outstandingly boring at the same time. I guess this is an arousing setting for some. Don't read this. Read Kafka on the shore.

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Disappointed

I really struggled to finish it and wonder how I managed to sit all the way through. Murakami depicts the women in his novel in such a shallow and unrealistic way that it makes you wonder if the author ever talked to a real woman in his life. The story is boring and keeps a suicidal and sentimental undertone through out the book that had me rolling my eyes constantly. The only thing I did enjoy are the narrators detailed description of food and drinks he seems to be consuming all the time.

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