....blind perseverance carried me 80% of the way thru this book until i finally gave up. what the hell.
the writing is not nearly good enough to carry ....blind perseverance carried me 80% of the way thru this book until i finally gave up. what the hell.
the writing is not nearly good enough to carry the events in this plot. in order to do what murakami wanted to do, you need some sort of buy-in thru a strong attachment to the characters or really good prose or something. love nakata, but beyond that... there was nothing to tether me to this story besides a passive interest in the ending which could've easily been satiated by a spoiler. it just got to the point where the fucked up-ness of the events superseded the quality of the storytelling. couldn't do it....more
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