Japanese language
Published Oct. 29, 2002 by Shinchōsha.
I don't think Murakami is for me.
Enjoyed Nakata's story.
The reading experience was enjoyable, and I was hooked in by the beginning, but in the end I left feeling no real impression and like I "didn't get it."
A quite interesting mystery full of self-discovery at its core, with quite an unusual narrative that tells this story from multiple angles at once, this book seemed quite promising from the start. However, the overly casual dialogues that oscillate between intentionally inarticulate and pseudo-intellectual quickly got on my nerves, and the subsequent attempts to make light of pedophilia as well as incest were only the last straw. I'm fairly confident that this is the worst book that I've read in the past decade or so.
I really don't know what I think of this book. From a bit I read, that might be fine with the author, so maybe I'll leave it at that :-)
