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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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May 24, 2016
Why we're reading this
Beautiful and brilliant and surreal.

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Steve
May 25, 2007 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
[My first goodreads review. I don't really do this kind of thing.:] I just watched Breakfast at Tiffany's on Netflix. It has a cat as a central element of the story, as does Murakami's beautiful Wind-Up Bird. In both we identify with a charming, well-meaning man who chases after the woman he loves. There are reporters, wealth, rain, and at the end I cried.

So it's interesting to see how Murakami, unlike Capote's screenplay, took me beneath - well beneath - the rush of the chase and catch, the alm
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AJ Nolan
Excellent, interesting and well written book. It would be five stars, but for some reason I just couldn't get engrossed in it. I think that might have been me and not the book, but so it goes. ...more
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May 26, 2016 rated it really liked it
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