I think I read in a book called « tokyo fiancé » that Japanese women are in fact that superficial, and the character that was talking about it said he found it very sad. Maybe reading that would give you a better view of the women in the book. Always enjoying your reviews ❤

This is interesting. I seem to disagree with you on every book you review and yet I enjoy listening to your ranting. Maybe I am just not interested in plot. I read this back in 2011 and still have images of the moons and the ladder down to 1Q84 in my mind. I'll have to reread it and see how it has aged.

I do like elements of this. The non-best related writing, the character development, even the story and imagination of the world. But I also completely get your criticisms.

Ha. I read the book earlier this year and, being a Murakami fan, kinda, I enjoyed it but kept waiting and waiting and waiting for the two main characters to meet, so I also feel your frustration and can’t really disagree with your takes. But I do enjoy his writing and am not one of these people who have to have the plot moving along. I will read a book about two people sitting at a table talking for the whole book and love it (The Reluctant Fundamentalist)

Eek. Just bought this book! Haven't watched your review, but will definitely come back to it. Heard first 30s and now I'm nervous!

The first Murakami book I ever read was The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle back when I was in college in the early 2000's. It was a great introduction to his world. From there I read Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. I got hooked after that and started reading most of his novels. I'm a big fan of absurdist and magical realism fiction. So, Murakami is up my alley.

This review helped me to decide to return my unread ebook copy that I purchased from Amazon for 99p 😂

Your reaction is roughly how I feel about every Murakami book I’ve read - yet I keep going back - haven’t read 1Q84 the last one I read was ‘Killing Commendatore’, which I quite enjoyed but then the endless mentioning of a young girls burgeoning breasts really jarred

thank you for this video my heart is literally broken ..from how bad this book is 😢 its like someone talentless copied M urakami