3.0

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT.

after telling me the importance of having your own mind, murakami just up and ends the book with the protagonist's loss of consciousness anyway. i should have known. murakami never ends his books neatly anyway. which would be fine for some people. and yes i did like the weirdness and everything in between, but personally i hate ending a book dissatisfactorily.

my reaction might have bee influenced by the fact that it took me about 2 months to finish reading this book. if i had really immersed myself in this weirdness, who knows?

the ideas in this book are priceless, though. see added quotes.