This version of the book has been reviewed in English(343), Japanese(2), Italian(2), Hebrew(1), French(1), Chinese-Traditional(1) by readers.
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Satenik posted a review at 2009-11-25 23:30:48.
(Language: English)
 
Any Murakami's books are my favorites! Love the characters, stories, and the atmosphere. Totally unique and life changing!
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Samuel posted a review at 2009-11-23 16:20:58.
(Language: English)
This was my second attempt to read this book. For some reason the first couple chapters, although intriguing, weren't able to hook me. This time I made myself drive on and I'm so glad I did. This story is up there with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and A Wild Sheep Chase. The chapters swap between two realities in which the protagonist simultaneously exists, although he's unaware of it. I wanted to finish each chapter as quick as possible so I could find out what's being discovered in the other world. I can't even really describe how awesome this book was. If you've read Murakami before then you know what I'm talking about. The end was exactly what was expected to happen, which was completely unexpected. A little known fact: real unicorns were more akin to a deer than the story book horse unicorns that we are taught about.
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Angela posted a review at 2009-11-22 09:17:37.
(Language: English)
My second book of his. And I was kinda disappointed. (The other was Wind-Up Bird Chronicle). I felt like he had too big an idea to try to get out... it was either dragged out or it was rushed through. Meh. Interesting concept, but meh.
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Lauren posted a review at 2009-11-19 19:47:56.
(Language: English)
<3 lovved
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Brian posted a review at 2009-11-18 21:04:47.
(Language: English)
I'm about three quarters through this and just had to mention it's my favourite Murakami so far. ..don't want it to end...
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Sophie posted a review at 2009-11-17 18:23:27.
(Language: French)
Une belle découverte. Deux histoires dans deux mondes totalement différents dont on découvre petit à petit le lien. Murakami décrit avec une grande force poétique un univers ultra moderne ET un univers totalement fantastique. J'ai été littéralement captivée par l'histoire et les personnages... et intriguée par le peu de japonéité du monde décrit. Je relirais d'autres oeuvres du même auteur avec une grande curiosité.
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Ioana posted a review at 2009-11-06 12:56:29.
(Language: English)
The best book by Murakami so far! A hallucinatory parallel travel through Tokyo's dark underworld and the ideal-like world/prison of the imagination in the quest of the meeting point between the two. A fantastic ride through the conscious and the unconscious of the human's psyche and its dangerous desire for their perfect union.
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Balaji posted a review at 2009-10-16 18:34:22.
(Language: English)
Simply mind blowing. Almost like drinking a pan-galactic gargle blaster ;)
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Fuzeani posted a review at 2009-10-11 20:27:00.
(Language: English)
Excellent, especially towards the end.
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