Title: too strange
Review: Both in English and Japanese, I find Murakami's writing too strange to enjoy. I not only cannot relate to the stories, but they are just too whacky. I don't know how people can rave about him as one of the rising stars of Japanese writing. Frankly, I think it is a disgrace. There are so many more talented and wonderful Japanese writers out there - Endo, Matsumoto, Natsume, Miyabe, Takagi....
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