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Poorva Parashar asked this question about Kafka on the Shore:
WHY is this book so loved? I mean, I didn't gain anything out of it. I'm not asking this as an insult. I genuinely want to know what the special thing about this book is.
Saurabh Sharma "If you pick it up, then finish reading it. Because no matter how dark and weird your dream is, you still want to wake up. Or die in your sleep."

This …more"If you pick it up, then finish reading it. Because no matter how dark and weird your dream is, you still want to wake up. Or die in your sleep."

This was my first response after finished reading this book. And when I logged in on Goodreads I found this question. And the answers, phew!

See, you don't have to expect something extraordinary to happen at the end of the book. I read an answer which reads as 'in the beginning it gets you hooked but in the end, everything seems to be pointless." When you live and you die at the end that doesn't mean that everything was pointless. It can be pointless and cannot be depending on what you think of your life and how you lived it and what you left here.

The book is full of philosophical metaphors and yes it is stuffed with the dream-like planes which are hard to comprehend. This complete book according to me is a dream like a sequence playing in real life, shifting gears and blurring dream and reality all the while approaching to its end which is realistic. As in real life, nothing out of the ordinary happens. I hope that explains, if not let's write to each other to understand better.(less)
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Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
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