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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami,

Jay Rubin (Translator)

Start date: July 1, 2021

Finish date: July 31, 2021

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

Why we're reading this: July 2021 New School Classic Group Read
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What Members Thought

Mar 21, 2014 AmberBug com* rated it liked it

No formal review but I'm wondering if I missed something? Solid writing and some of the characters I loved, but overall... meh. I'll have to try a different Murakami and hope this just didn't connect with me. ...more

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Apr 30, 2012 Gary Lyons rated it it was amazing

Very enjoyable but quite odd like most of murakami's books. ...more

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Jun 13, 2019 Charles rated it really liked it · review of another edition

It’s a terrific novel that makes us pause and think this fundamental question: who the hell am I? Where is the life I dreamed of? What if I cross over the reality to an imagery life? What if you imagined actually come true? The last scene was just spectacular. On a rainy day like today, you don’t want your life just drift away...

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Hell has no bottom. I’m qualified for nothing. Never to use imagination. It can only cost your life. I defiled myself beyond all cleansing. What t ...more

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