Norwegian Wood

Before I started this book, a friend warned me that it would be a poor introduction to Murakami and that I would be better off reading The wind up bird chronicle or Kafka on the shore instead. I decided not to heed their advice because I had only ever heard good things about this novel, but now that I've read it and read some of the reviews here on Goodreads, I understand where she was coming from. I didn't think the book was bad; but it also did not live up to the expectations I had based on Murakami's expectations. Since this seems to be considered one of his worst books by a significant margin, I am still certainly looking forward to reading more of his work.