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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami,

Jay Rubin

Start date: January 1, 2016

Finish date: January 31, 2016

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Dec 08, 2011 Jason rated it liked it

Shelves: for-kindle, wine-club, reviewed

You know how sometimes there are those zoo animals that are so bizarre-looking they’re almost cute? The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is kind of like that. Parts of it are endearing—it has characters who are quirky and memorable, plot sequences that are captivating and dream-like. But it’s also a whole lot weird. You think the story is actually going somewhere, that the nature of the book’s mysteries will be revealed and the inexplicable twists will start to make some sense, but nope. At the end of the ...more

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Dec 21, 2015 Keryn rated it liked it

I think Paul's review where he describes this book as similar to blancmange is pretty good, and had me laughing out loud. I was captivated by Murakami's novel but I found the experience profoundly dissatisfying and depressing. And yet I could not stop reading. I do believe there is same sheer brilliance in the writing (some very weird bits too), with a lot of 'netherworld' goings on, but for me personally overall it was not as good as I expected it to be when I got hooked in the first few chapte ...more

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