slockmil 's review for:

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

3.0

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Got a little shaky in the middle. I was initially expecting it to be a completely realistic, everyday fiction book, so I was thrown when the supernatural elements came into the picture. Still, while I was adapting to the new information of the world, the shifting, tenuous elements that made it baffling also served to capture my attention even further. The book had some strange sexual elements, but for being a sexual story, it makes sense in the end. I wound up liking this a lot more than I thought I would in the middle. I'm glad I stuck with it.