Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Now that I've read the book, I've gone back and read some of the reviews, and the gist of it is: if you like Murakami, you'll recognize a lot of his previous works in this book.

As someone who hasn't read anything of his before (actually, I read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, which is non-fiction, not realizing it was the same author), I went in with an open mind.

I found the book pretty rote, similar to what they refer to “on rails” when talking about video game. Very linear, lots of loose ends, and not a ton of deep thoughts being provoked. I'd say about a quarter of it was pretty good, a quarter was ok, and half was kind of pointless.

Given that two stars here means “It was ok”, I'm giving it that rating because it's pretty much exactly how I felt about it. It was ok.