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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

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"meh, too many tangents off of other tangents at this point. Kinda hard to maintain interest. I would've been happy with it ending 50 pages ago, where a real semblance of finality was established. Feels like the worlds longest P.S. at this point and the fact that this is going to go on for 150+ pages is enough for me to want to put it down. Crazy and beautiful at times but drawn out and boring at others." — Jan 13, 2018 11:32AM

Jan 02, 2018 08:00PM

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Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)

by James Clavell

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"Picking this up after awhile was harder to get into than I thought it would be. The spirit of place that Clavell established was easy to imagine but the addition of utilizing a phonetic writing structure in order to distinguish the english sailors from other characters has felt a little too jarring for me. This was something that was absent in Shogun but I shouldn't say yet if I think it's ineffective or not." — Jan 13, 2018 11:25AM

Jan 01, 2018 07:00PM