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The author foreshadowed something early on, and I feared what it was because it's very dumb. I was right about it and now I'm mad lol

Oh my god who cares about the Pax. Get Father-captain de Soya out of here. Can't wait to be done with this series

This one is a bit of a chore to get through. 250 pages in and all that’s happening is spaceships chasing each other around

This is really good

This is Field of Dreams for mushroom hunters

The writing is too precious. It's winning me over though

I would die for Pnin

I don’t know why im reading this

Nothing wrong with this romantic subplot necessarily, except for the fact that it exists

I don't get the hype. If someone loves this book, can you tell me why? I don't know if the book is good or just Important. I may not be the target audience, but who exactly is? It feels like a book that people read and think, oh other people really need to read this--but they remain unaffected.

Someone convince me this is more than an airport lobby book or I’m abandoning it

Took me 150 pages to start caring about this book

Not ready for the series to end

Lila is a manipulative person and I'm so conflicted

I like poetry now

I agree with the author's own assessment: "‘the literary equivalent of a hyperactive, ginger-haired tap-dancing 10-year-old." The 200 pages I've read are too long by half.

"...as in a vision, the progress of spring, summer, fall and winter, as if the whole of time were a frivolous interlude in the much greater spaces of eternity, a brilliant conjuring trick to produce something apparently orderly out of chaos, to establish a vantage point from which chance might begin to look like necessity"

Cheers to Krasznahorkai delivering the goods right up front

The overwrought prose makes me want to throw this in the toilet. The research seems good I guess. Powering through

Omg

It's so good. Wasn't expecting something so lively and vivid

Finished book one. Murakami is not a great stylist. The prose is pretty regular, but it's a compelling story. Almost a beach read.

The level of fantasy extends to the characters of the women, as in many men's books, who are extremely sexually available with few emotional needs. Aomame is mysterious enough that it works so far, though.

400 pages in... starting to get good