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Not easy, but interesting
At the beginning I had a hard time picking the book up, by the end I had a hard time putting it down.
Things I liked less: It was hard to read the book at the beginning because it is taxing emotionally to be reading the depictions of the events, with the descriptions of actual people dying and of how it also affected the other victims' lives. Sometimes it was hard to follow what they were talking about due to the reference of other events that happened around that time, as the events themselves are not explained in details. But looking up things on wikipedia was enough for me to clear that up. This is a non-fiction book and sometimes I found it a bit hard to want to read it because of the lack of "plot", but it's a really nice format if you want to only read a little bit everyday.
Things I liked more: I loved all the trivia I learned from reading about so many different people's lives. With talking to more than 60 people, it gives an interesting insight of how was life in Tokyo in 1995. I also really enjoyed whenever it was Murakami writing at the beginning of those sections (the conclusion was harder to read, difficult for me language wise and I am more of a fiction person I guess, had trouble focusing on an essay-like text)
It's quite a long book, so be prepared for a long time investment, unless you don't want to read the whole thing, which I guess is also possible as it's a collection of interviews.