I don’t regret reading it because I feel like I was pulled outside of my box, and I really think I’ll be chewing over a lot of the lingering questions for a long time. Honestly, if I had chosen it on my own, I would have put it down, probably before I’d even finished 100 pages. It’s not a book I would have chosen on my own. I read this book for the Constant Reader book group on Goodreads. I kept waiting for everything to come together and get explained, but that never happened. As someone else put it, you don’t read this book, you float through it. That didn’t bother me too much, but I usually read books that have a more concrete story line. Parts of it were a little graphic, both in terms of violence and sex. I finished this book, put it down, and told my husband, “Don’t ask me what I just read, because I couldn’t tell you.” The style of the book is very dreamy, and there are so many dreams and what-might-have-beens that I was never entirely sure what was really happening and what wasn’t. Basically, Toru Okada has just quit his job in Tokyo and all kinds of strange people enter and leave his life while all kinds of strange things happen to him.
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