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A review by vivalibrarian
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
5.0
Murakami sings to me of fascination. I still haven't worked out why.
I stole that.
I bought this book because a good friend told me to read it AND the staff review at Tattered Cover said "this changed my life". But, I didn't read it-it just sat in my monumental pile of books to be read. Then, the universe decided to nudge me about it and I started...rather begrudgingly.
My paperback, now tattered with the pages darkened from a variety of sources, has been in Denver, the Rocky Mountains, St. Louis, New York City, Newark and more airplanes then I care to remember. By page 14 I started marking quotes I wanted to remember but, it was on page 392 that this book changed me. I was Toru. I was right there in a dark well trying to figure it all out while enveloped by emotions. Toru thinks SO much and my god, this is me. Always searching for a place to think.
I felt like the story just came and I was wandering thru Murakami's mind with him as he felt the story happen. I don't think it was planned out and the structure...is there structure? I don't know. You have no idea what is real or what isn't real and I feel like Murakami is thinking the same thing with the goal of just moving forward and seeing how it all works out.
What is interesting to me is the intensely emotional reactions-no matter the circumstances-that readers have to Murakami. That impresses the most and is what makes him an incredible writer for me. I guess it is true-the best stories do change you. I never thought this book would do that to me but it did.
I stole that.
I bought this book because a good friend told me to read it AND the staff review at Tattered Cover said "this changed my life". But, I didn't read it-it just sat in my monumental pile of books to be read. Then, the universe decided to nudge me about it and I started...rather begrudgingly.
My paperback, now tattered with the pages darkened from a variety of sources, has been in Denver, the Rocky Mountains, St. Louis, New York City, Newark and more airplanes then I care to remember. By page 14 I started marking quotes I wanted to remember but, it was on page 392 that this book changed me. I was Toru. I was right there in a dark well trying to figure it all out while enveloped by emotions. Toru thinks SO much and my god, this is me. Always searching for a place to think.
I felt like the story just came and I was wandering thru Murakami's mind with him as he felt the story happen. I don't think it was planned out and the structure...is there structure? I don't know. You have no idea what is real or what isn't real and I feel like Murakami is thinking the same thing with the goal of just moving forward and seeing how it all works out.
What is interesting to me is the intensely emotional reactions-no matter the circumstances-that readers have to Murakami. That impresses the most and is what makes him an incredible writer for me. I guess it is true-the best stories do change you. I never thought this book would do that to me but it did.