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David I wish I could have spoken as well. Thanks.

For the record, at the time I was bothered by the female assassin 'doing' her dying male victim, but we are assured he was a very bad person and even this is not beyond the realm of a lot of female revenge in many novels.
That scene aside, and I can remember none like it elsewhere, I rule by the balance not by that one event.

I will be reading more Murakami.

I agree with what you say, David, in regards to Murakami's writing in general, especially re. the "weirdness and mystery." I enjoyed 1Q84 and would recommend it. I can especially relate to your comment re. Twin Peaks, being a huge fan of the latter.

Re. the "sex stuff," I don't think the objections are (at least in my case) that they are pornographic, but that they can -- not always, but often enough -- come across as a bit puerile. It's something that broke me from the spell now and again, and reminded me that Murakami was there, indulging himself a little with his characters.

the original comment wasn't about the sex being boring/distasteful it was pointing out sexism lol. i love that there's all these men in these comments defending this. of course you would defend it. you're used to women being sexualized like this and you also benefit from sexism. you have no vested interest in examining this or even entertaining the possibility that you're not understanding something about this. even entertaining the possibility that there's something fucked up about his writing is too dangerous for y'all because then you'd be forced to examine yourselves too