Ratings220
Average rating3.7
Short Review: A fascinating but flawed book. I love the story in all of its weird wandering. But it seriously needs an editor. An easy 200 pages could have been cut without harm to the story. 50 pages could be cut by just eliminating all of the characters repeating one another all the time. I was fine with the fact that only one of the story threads was really wrapped up, and even that only had a hint at the solution.
But in spite of the problems I really did like the story. And it only took me 2 weeks to listen to 47 hours of audiobook.
My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/iq84-by-haruki-murakami/