r luck suspending belief in a science fiction or horror novel than I do this type of writing.

Maybe one day when I get bored and there is nothing else to read (haha), I will pick up another Murakami novel.30:T425,This book really disappointed me. All of the characters sound fascinating in theory, and I liked the parallel universes idea, but the writing was just really bad. Important points are reiterated over and over like the reader might not be paying attention, and plot points are over-explained (there is a part in book 3 where the POV characters are constantly missing each other and the narration is constantly telling you exactly when they passed each other by even though it's obvious - it made me feel like Murakami thinks his readers are idiots).

All of the characters talk about taking control but just get pushed around by the narrative. Most of them hardly do anything at all.

The writing around underage girls is gross, especially a plot contrivance which allows a major character (who is a teacher!!) to have guilt-free sex with a teenage girl. All of the female characters are written very poorly and described by their breasts even when they are dead.

The romance that is basically the whole point of the book is ridiculous.31:T569,DNF @ page 426.

After about three months, I'm finally deciding to put this down. I had no knowledge going into this book. I knew I had seen it on Goodreads in a few places, and I was in the mood to read a longer book, so when I saw it in the library, I checked it out. The first month I had it, I barely got through 100 pages. The second month of reading it, I got through more, but I couldn't make myself read anymore, so I decided to DNF.

This book was dense. What could have been done in 150 pages was done in 400. There were chapters that were 10 pages too long because of all the excessive description. This book is three novels into one, but I just considered it one while reading it. The first part could have not been a book on

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