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Dark Ramblings

I've read a number of Murakami's works, but this was my first attempt in Japanese. It certainly maintains his trademark 'magical realism' or whatever... but it just wasn't very satisfying overall. The plot-lines of the various characters have some interesting moments but don't really amount to anything substantial and... suddenly it's over.

The language alternated between fairly easy to understand, Tarantino-esque dialogue and long, rather descriptive and esoteric exposition.

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