[DeepL Translation - needs review] The End of the World" tells the story of "I" who live in a city surrounded by high walls with no contact with the outside world, reading dreams from the skulls of the unicorns that live there. Hard-Boiled Wonderland" tells the story of "I," an old scientist who has had a certain thought process installed in the core of his consciousness, and his quest to discover the secret hidden in that process. Haruki Murakami's Wonderland is a tale of a quiet fantasy wo...
fun but flawed
First of all I enjoyed reading this book for the most part. At first I thought it seemed a bit different from other Murakami novels but soon I realized that it's exactly the same as his other work, for better or for worse. On one hand it flows smoothly and you want to know what happens next. Any novel that can make you feel that way has already done something right. On the other hand it makes you feel like it is building up to something, like it's trying to reach some goal or convey a message, b