nikol
I had high HIGH hopes for this thing i swear to you. I thought yes a novel about a year of rest and relaxation.
It was a year of bullshitery white privilege and a bitchy white girl BITCHING. My god did she never shut up. I honestly don't understand how everyone on booktok was eating this up.
I finished it in a day in some vain unrealistic hope it would get better eventually. That the ending would somehow make better the 300 pages of absolute nothing i had to go through.
Alas no, the ending much like everything else was disappointing.
Maybe im too “third world country middle working class” to grasp the harsh realities of being a WASP and frankly i dont give a flying fart in space. I don't recommend this book to anyone ever.
this book was... a whirlwind that's for sure. I didn't know what I was signing up for when I started reading it but this isn't my first Murakami novel, nonetheless even after only having read The Wind Up Bird Chronicle I can tell there are several literary tools Murakami seems quite fond of. Cats for sure are one of them. I read quite a review saying this book had no narrative and that it led nowhere but honestly, I disagree. Is this my favorite book of all time? No. Is it a good read? Hell yeah.
This book did however reinforce to me the fact that Murakami seems unable to write good female characters. The misogyny was strong in this one. The SPOILER rape scene was ... uncomfortable to read I will say. I have left this book with way too many questions, to be honest. I would read a sequel but I also like the freedom I have to imagine what happens afterward. there were some shocks near the end but all in all, I did think this is how things would turn out.
Not a single conversation worth its fuckin name was had during the entire duration of the plot
And no FRIENDS IN SIGHT dear god this was putrid
I would rate it 0 stars if I could