Joshua Strozzi

I don't remember much of this.

Just....magnificent.

What a wild book. Seriously I found myself thinking this world makes no sense. It's just so mundane, or so you think, then you realize you can't stop reading it, that the world is mysterious and quirky in just the right way that you can't stop and you much know more and keep seeing what happens.

Murikami is weird in a way I like. Hope his other books are better though, because if there was a point to all of this, I missed it. I can't say I understood the book wholly, but reading it was a delight.

This is a book about death, acceptance, life/living, feelings, but it's written with such camp and the characters are so unlike actual people that it just lost me. No one talks like a webtoon character or like a MTV sitcom/drama show character as these people do. No one develops from a POS lawyer to saint, no matter the situation. This book is so unserious while trying discuss serious things like that I just plain can't enjoy it for either things it brings to the table, musings on death and campy fun goofy times.

It was okay.

Super cool book, steeps you in 2 dream-like lives that are drawn to each other...then the book becomes half about Kafka Tomura's underaged Oedipal ‘curse' and I just wasn't into that. Hated 15% of this book because of that. The rest is very cool though. Just could really do without that themes. They aren't interesting.

Merged review:

Super cool book, steeps you in 2 dream-like lives that are drawn to each other...then the book becomes half about Kafka Tomura's underaged Oedipal ‘curse' and I just wasn't into that. Hated 15% of this book because of that. The rest is very cool though. Just could really do without that themes. They aren't interesting.