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Sputnik Sweetheart
by Haruki Murakami
Well that ended abruptly. This was the first book I read on my kindle and you can't really tell how far along you are unless you check. I got to the last page and went to move to the next page but there wasn't one. I was pretty confused and actually went back to the table of contents to make sure I hand't missed something. I'm not really mad at the ending it was just so sudden it took me by surprise. Also possibly the least closure from an ending ever? I'm exaggerating but man he really left the whole mystery dangling in the air. That can be fun but the fact that basically the next chapter - if there had been one - would have provided some answers really makes it sting.
The characters were all really likable and sort of boring in a good way. They felt like normal boring people, with a few eccentricities that made them remarkable. When I say normal boring people, I really just mean that they felt natural and recognizable. I liked the narrator character a lot, he had a nice even keeled reasonableness but was still fun and not overly stoic. Sumire was quirky and interesting but not unnaturally so. Miu was mostly underdeveloped until pretty late in the story but generally she was likable but unremarkable. Other than one big thing but it's more of a plot point than a character trait.
Reminded me a lot of [b:1Q84|10357575|1Q84 |Haruki Murakami|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1316729331s/10357575.jpg|18160093] in some very obvious ways, namely, the perspective narration, the lingering mystery. Maybe these and other things are just generally present in Murakami books but I can't really make that call from just reading two.
The characters were all really likable and sort of boring in a good way. They felt like normal boring people, with a few eccentricities that made them remarkable. When I say normal boring people, I really just mean that they felt natural and recognizable. I liked the narrator character a lot, he had a nice even keeled reasonableness but was still fun and not overly stoic. Sumire was quirky and interesting but not unnaturally so. Miu was mostly underdeveloped until pretty late in the story but generally she was likable but unremarkable. Other than one big thing but it's more of a plot point than a character trait.
Reminded me a lot of [b:1Q84|10357575|1Q84 |Haruki Murakami|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1316729331s/10357575.jpg|18160093] in some very obvious ways, namely