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A review by chnh
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
3.0
this book was so bizarre and caught me very off guard. it was an alluring read, but also depressing, dark, lucid. i feel like this is a read that haunts you or finds you when you least expect it.
murakami has a way with words and had very memorable lines in the book.
all the characters were very unlikable (i tend to like a good unlikable character but i really didn’t like any of these people) and just very lacking in morality. also the book was a bit overt for my taste.
overall it was mostly fine, but i didn’t like the ending.
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“thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again”
“what happens when people open their hearts?” “they get better.”
“the dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.”
murakami has a way with words and had very memorable lines in the book.
all the characters were very unlikable (i tend to like a good unlikable character but i really didn’t like any of these people) and just very lacking in morality. also the book was a bit overt for my taste.
overall it was mostly fine, but i didn’t like the ending.
…
“thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again”
“what happens when people open their hearts?” “they get better.”
“the dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.”