Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Murakami's one of those types for which I actually take a lunch break just to get some reading in at the middle of the day, for which I complain about having to go out socially instead of staying at home to read, for which I get annoyed with how the athletic rigours of ultimate frisbee render me unable to read for long without falling asleep – even though the language is somewhat stilted, the characters are always flatter than I expect them to be, and the ending always leaves me 10% unfulfilled.