mono_vox (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mono_vox) wrote,@ 2008-02-01 12:46:00 |
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50 books in 1 year - 2008 - # 2
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
This is a book I’d heard a lot about and I can see why it’s so well-liked. Murakami is a master of turning the mundane into the magical, and the tale of Toru, his missing cat and wife, plus an array of characters that pop up in the present, past, future and in other worlds.
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
This is a book I’d heard a lot about and I can see why it’s so well-liked. Murakami is a master of turning the mundane into the magical, and the tale of Toru, his missing cat and wife, plus an array of characters that pop up in the present, past, future and in other worlds.
Although this is an interesting and intricate story (I would LOVE to see the synopsis he had to submit to his publishers) it took me a while to get into it, and I felt that it could have been a wee bit shorter, with some of the surplus cut out – far too much military info plus plotlines and characters that were built up in detail, which then tailed off without ever reaching any sort of explanation or conclusion – and the story would have been just as good.
I enjoyed the strangeness and found myself being sucked into Toru’s world(s) but ended the book feeling frustrated that some of the things revealed about his brother-in-law and the strange hotel room at the end were too vague, and parts about his employer Nutmeg and her son Cinnamon’s Chronicles (especially about the heart buried in the ground) were frustratingly left unexplained which left me wanting.
