A review by tib
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

I feel meh about it, I loved Nakata’s chapters and felt a bit cringe about a lot of Kafka’s (re: incest/sexual assault, etc.), and found a lot of the novel to be too pretentious/metaphory at times. it took me forever to read the second half because it just got so slow. sometimes the plot spun out of control but it was still cool in a weird way. 

also I do not like the way murakami writes women/non-men!!! overly sexualized, not much substance/backstory/depth of character

Edit: upped to 3.5 stars because the writing really was beautiful 
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