I discovered this Book in a VERY strange way which I am compelled to share with you. He is my new favorite author, and this was a wonderful introduction to his world and the type of story he can tell. It was the first Murakami book I'd read, and now I own about 12 of his books and have been working my way through them. It is striking, thoughtful, beautiful, sexy, interesting and enveloping and I knowI will read it over and over again in my lifetime. It is a fantastic story, weaving the lives of several characters together in the strangest and most bizarre fashion, but somehow is completely believable. It is even dearer to me now, as that professor recently passed away very suddenly and now, this book, will forever be linked to his memory.

It took me a while to get ahold of it and also took a while to finish because it is long, but I was completely in love with it, and therefore having it alongside my life for several months. This book was recommended to me by a professor and dear friend at my college who knew my taste and interests well and told me I shouldn't waste time in picking up this book. Like the mark in a brilliant con game, I closed The Wind-up Bird Chronicle feeling somewhat bereft, but still so dazzled by Murakami's skill that I couldn't quite regret having come along for the ride.' Laura Miller, Review 'Murakami is that unusual creature, a metaphysical novelist with a warm, down-to-earth voice and a knack for creating credible characters and spinning a lively yarn.From the beginning, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has the easy authority of the work of a natural-born storyteller, and each eccentric character and odd development only adds to the anticipation that Murakami will tie it all up in a satisfying resolution.The first 600 pages of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle offer much unadulterated reading pleasure, and it's only as the remaining pages grow ominously sparse that the proverbial sinking feeling sets in.Murakami can't, in the end, gather all his novel's intriguing subplots and mysterious minor characters together convincingly, and he summarily drops whole handfuls of loose ends.

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