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The first 300 pages was really good, but from then it turned noway to the end I had no idea what any of it really meant.
This book is about a married couple in their early 30s, in which it focuses on the husband. It deals with their day to day life with the main character meeting some strange characters. Then one day out of nowhere his wife leaves him. Through out the novel, it gives the background story to the characters.
This book is about a married couple in their early 30s, in which it focuses on the husband. It deals with their day to day life with the main character meeting some strange characters. Then one day out of nowhere his wife leaves him. Through out the novel, it gives the background story to the characters.
This is the second book by Murakami that I've read, and I am really in love with his characters and his style. This is the story of a man inside a marriage as it falls apart, but also about all the unpredictable things that happen to him and the stories surrounding those events. Unexpected and interesting.
"It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, and the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things an ...more
"It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, and the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things an ...more
I listened to the audiobook and gave up after file 8 of 21.
Guy leads very boring jobless life and occasionally people tell him somewhat interesting stories with a too high emphasis on psychic stuff (at the moment he is in between forgetting his dear cat is missing, and trying to figure out if his wife left him).
Very slow moving story that at times really doesn't make sense (lacks coherence??), why do people randomly spill their deepest secrets to this somewhat creepy guy?! I just don't care to r ...more
Guy leads very boring jobless life and occasionally people tell him somewhat interesting stories with a too high emphasis on psychic stuff (at the moment he is in between forgetting his dear cat is missing, and trying to figure out if his wife left him).
Very slow moving story that at times really doesn't make sense (lacks coherence??), why do people randomly spill their deepest secrets to this somewhat creepy guy?! I just don't care to r ...more
It was sooo good I just couldn't stop reading!
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Jan 11, 2010
Linda
marked it as to-read
Jan 19, 2010
Stephanie
marked it as to-read
