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Jun 01, 2007
Jessica Haider
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it was amazing
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I had been looking forward to reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ever since a former book club member recommended it to me in around 2001. It didn't disappoint. I have read several other of Murakami's works and he is definitely one of my favorite authors. I love the trippy, magical, and quirky quality to his writing.
Extra kudos since the book mentioned one of my favorite things: watching ducks walk on ice--- hours of entertainment! ...more
Extra kudos since the book mentioned one of my favorite things: watching ducks walk on ice--- hours of entertainment! ...more
Man, was this book ever strange! I loved the first half of it, and I was so excited because this has been on my to-read shelf at home forever and I have probably been putting it off for a year.
But somewhere about halfway through I got totally turned off, around the time when Nutmeg and Cinnamon got introduced. It was like being thrown around in a Dali painting...and I like Dali, so not in a good way. It just kept getting more and more bizarre, and all these characters were introduced and nothing ...more
But somewhere about halfway through I got totally turned off, around the time when Nutmeg and Cinnamon got introduced. It was like being thrown around in a Dali painting...and I like Dali, so not in a good way. It just kept getting more and more bizarre, and all these characters were introduced and nothing ...more
It's like Alice in Wonderland with asides about war, loneliness, teenage angst, marital dis/content and a search for a love, an ordinary love, but a love that makes an unremarkable man do remarkable things.
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Jun 09, 2007
Rhosyn Goodfellow
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really liked it
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Jun 17, 2016
Wendy
marked it as own-tbr
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Sep 11, 2016
Sarah
marked it as to-read
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