Rhonda Hankins answers “i am struggling to finish reading this...”

Joshua Lee asked this question about 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3):

i am struggling to finish reading this damn book. I can't stop due to the promise I made this year: Once start, finish the book. Haruki is an over valued writer.This is my thinking after reading several works of his. Am I only one thinking as this?

Rhonda Hankins I give you permission to quit this book . . . really any book. If you're not obliged to read it for school or work, stop when you feel like it.

I quit …moreI give you permission to quit this book . . . really any book. If you're not obliged to read it for school or work, stop when you feel like it.

I quit on this book at page 265. I'm reading it in English, the writing is fine but not exciting or exceptional in any way. I'm bored with all the sex references and have yet to identify one character I like at all.

I lived in Tokyo for over a decade in the 1980s so I thought this would be fun for me. It wasn't. Tokyo was -- perhaps still is -- awesome. This book is not.

This is one of those books for other people. Let yourself move onto something you find worthwhile.(less)

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