apricat_reads 's review for:

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

1.0

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A pretentious book about an alternate universe where no one has any real substance or depth. I don’t know if it’s that, Murakami’s sexualization of young girls, the line “I had an air of breeding about me that the other girls lacked” (among other problematic lines), the main married character saying he “couldn’t explain why exactly” he has never cheated on his wife after a description of him ejaculating in his pants while dreaming of another woman, or the overall objectification of female characters who feel like mere concepts Murakami uses... but it’s a hell no from me.

Overall: Fully agree with the reviewer who said Murakami cant write women (not concepts. not objects.) for shit. Say it louder for the people in the back.

Also, read half and DNF because I don’t hate myself