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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by Haruki Murakami

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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9833.Blind_Willow_Sleeping_Woman?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166065765m/9833.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9833.Blind_Willow_Sleeping_Woman?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3354.Haruki_Murakami">Haruki Murakami</a><br/><br/>
  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14116840?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>Prior to reading this I had read <a href="/search/search?q=Norwegian Wood&t=title">Norwegian Wood</a> and <a href="/search/search?q=Kafka on the Shore&t=title">Kafka on the Shore</a> and liked those in different ways.  However in neither way was I sure of.  Reading his short stories were a nice change in pace from his novels, however I was equally unsure of what I thought of them.  After a while I just got tired of getting to the end of a story and feeling that he was just trying to write as messed up a story as possible and with no type of resolve at the end.  It wasn't until one story where the main character said there was little to no point to his story that I actually liked that one story.  Some of the stories stuck out as being better than others.  Of them I felt "Hamalei Bay" and "Chance Traveller" were the best.  Followed by "The Seventh Man".  Other decent ones were: "Firefly", "Man Eating Cats", "Birthday Girl", "Kidney Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day" and "The Shinagawa Monkey".  Wow, after making this list I realize that I liked about half of what was in the book.  Give it a try if you like... it wasn't my favorite.
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Prior to reading this I had read Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore and liked those in different ways. However in neither way was I sure of. Reading his short stories were a nice change in pace from his novels, however I was equally unsure of what I thought of them. After a while I just got tired of getting to the end of a story and feeling that he was just trying to write as messed up a story as possible and with no type of resolve at the end. It wasn't until one story where the main character said there was little to no point to his story that I actually liked that one story. Some of the stories stuck out as being better than others. Of them I felt "Hamalei Bay" and "Chance Traveller" were the best. Followed by "The Seventh Man". Other decent ones were: "Firefly", "Man Eating Cats", "Birthday Girl", &quo...more

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