This is the first time I have read anything by Murakami and I found it to be pretty good, he might be a popular author one day. :)

His writing style is pretty interesting, I think he wrote these in Japanese, translated into English and then wrote that translation back into Japanese, at least it were something like that. The result ends up being lots of short sentences and small amounts of speech. The one thing I don't get about these two books is they are the "Rat stories" the character known as the rat only features in small bits here and there.

Wind is the début novel and you can tell that, its a bit rough around the edges but still an interesting read. Pinball is much better, the obsession for the pinball machine and psychology behind it was really well written, I did manage to get caught up in the hunt for the elusive machine.

A good start, looking forward to reading more of his work.

Blog review here: felcherman.wordpress.com/2020/01/21/wind-pinball-by-haruki-murakami/