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A review by mikavon
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
3.0
It took me like three months, but I finally finished this book. Not that I didn't like it, it was just super long and I only read a few pages every night before bed... takes time.
Anyway. I'm not sure exactly what to make of this book, it was weird. But in an interesting way. My favourite parts would have to be Lt Mamiya's accounts of the war...super gruesome and tense. My least favourite parts? Hmm maybe everything to do with May Kasahara, I didn't really get her role in the story.
Not sure why we needed so many details about what Toru was eating all the time. I feel like there were way to many mundane details about his life.
I'm just not deep enough to comment on this book more than that. It was weird, and definitely unlike anything else I've read. I did like it a lot more than that other Murakami book I read, Norwegian Wood. A lot more weird shit happened in this one. And it was somehow less melancholy, even though the ending was a bit of a downer.
Anyway. I'm not sure exactly what to make of this book, it was weird. But in an interesting way. My favourite parts would have to be Lt Mamiya's accounts of the war...super gruesome and tense. My least favourite parts? Hmm maybe everything to do with May Kasahara, I didn't really get her role in the story.
Not sure why we needed so many details about what Toru was eating all the time. I feel like there were way to many mundane details about his life.
I'm just not deep enough to comment on this book more than that. It was weird, and definitely unlike anything else I've read. I did like it a lot more than that other Murakami book I read, Norwegian Wood. A lot more weird shit happened in this one. And it was somehow less melancholy, even though the ending was a bit of a downer.