A review by gouricanread
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

3.0

Every single time I have read a Murakami book since 2022, I swear that it is my last one. For me, Murakami used to have some sort of magic when I read his work. 1Q84 and The Elephant Vanishes are still two of my favorite books of all time. It used to get me out of slumps. But now, whenever I read his male characters, I feel like giving up right away. The past couple of Murakami books have not done it for me. His male characters are insufferable and his female characters feel like they are shells of real human beings. This book did not have enough to be this long. I loved the first 400 pages of it but it progressively got worse until it got to page 900.
So far, In the order of how much I liked them, the Murakami books I have read are:

1. 1Q84
2. The Elephant Vanishes
3. After Dark
4. Wind up bird chronicle
5. After the Quake
6. Kafka on the Shore
7. Sputnik Sweetheart
8. South of the border, west of the Sun

I think I'm done with his writing. Toodles.