Boris’s answer to “WHY is this book so loved? I mean, I didn't gain anything out of it. I'm not asking this as an insu…” > Likes and Comments

I disagree. "Kafka on the Shore" was the first thing by Murakami I'd read and I didn't find it challenging, I found it extremely rich and enchanting, peculiar, heavy, roller-coaster-like, but not challenging. And dare I say I don't think I took it the wrong way.
What does "explaining a book in a wrong way" even mean? Every single reader has the right to perceive a book in their own manner, with what they've acquired in terms of experience (in reading and in life). I don't think there's right/wrong in understanding a book, especially when it comes to someone so ambivalent as Murakami.
From what I got, Poorva didn't like the book and doesn't get the hype over it, she didn't say she didn't "get" it.

Of course that no interpretation is necessarily wrong, but a interpretation must have its own merit. In other words what I say is wrong is the way one come to his conclusions - that's what I am actually saying in my comment. And when a novel holds a key of explanation, then it's not about a reader's right it's about finding the key or not finding it. In Murakami's case the key is set into his earlier novels. He is an artist who once is finished with writing leaves everything on the imagination of his readers without giving explanation. It's up to us to find it. Some of us just don't find it.