Reviews - A Wild Sheep Chase

2.53k reviews for:

A Wild Sheep Chase

Haruki Murakami

3.84 AVERAGE

mochoa68's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Hook Factor: 7/10
Writing Quality: /810
Characters: 6/10
Plot Development: 6/10
Pace: 5/10
Readability: 8/10
Recommend Rating: 7/10
Overall Rating: 6/10

53/80 = 66.25% * 5 = 3.3125 ⭐

theonewhoreadz's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

dotdotd0t's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 23%

weird

joelleidj's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

camchu's review against another edition

4.25

Great story-telling and excellent writing as always. Surreal, and bizarre, the real world blends in with the metaphorical one, as expected from Murakami. One of my favorites from him.

azucenasvr's review against another edition

3.5

mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ejrathke's review against another edition

3.0

Reading Murakami's earliest books is...interesting. Maybe it's my fault for really only being familiar with his work that considered to be his best, though I haven't read him in a long, long time. Maybe even a decade (!) or so.

His early novels are very...horny. I'm not sure how else to say it. There are interesting things happening in the novel outside of the narrator's intense horniness (which is a bit of a constant in these early novels that I don't remember from his later, more well received books). But, yeah, there's a peculiar mystery that's both absurd and whimsical that leads to a sort of anticlimactic denouement, which does remind me a bit of the Murakami I remember.

It didn't work well for me here. Maybe it's because the novel felt sort of haphazardly thrown together. But I see many of Murakami's obsessions already at play in these first books. Jazz, cigarettes, scotch, unique and somewhat mysterious women, and peculiar mysteries that sort of never emerge the way you expect.

I don't know. The novel is fine but it's also not very noteworthy. These first three books seem kind of like tryouts for his later books.

I'm excited to reread Hardboiled Wonderland next, since I remember that being my favorite.