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Jack Duggan
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With the dual-narrative, surreal and baffling worldbuilding and weird fixation on teenagers’ bodies, I was going to say “yep, this is definitely another Murakami” - until I realised it is almost *literally* the premise as Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World 🤔
— Dec 13, 2025 06:15PM
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Jack Duggan
is on page 238 of 449
Glad to finally get a resolution to the subplot about the character I was getting more and more convinced was actually a ghost 😌
— Dec 25, 2025 02:54PM
Jack Duggan
is on page 157 of 449
Into Part II now, and it’s finally stopped just being Hard Boiled Wonderland… again.
Now it’s just Kafka By The Shore again instead.
— Dec 22, 2025 04:08PM
Now it’s just Kafka By The Shore again instead.
Jack Duggan
is on page 92 of 449
Young love interest wasting away from an unexplained illness: check
Vague and recursive conversation with an inscrutable non-human character: check
All I need is ‘has an affair with a married, and possibly older, woman’ and I have a full bingo
— Dec 17, 2025 04:10PM
Vague and recursive conversation with an inscrutable non-human character: check
All I need is ‘has an affair with a married, and possibly older, woman’ and I have a full bingo
Jack Duggan
is on page 64 of 449
This is hitting every square of Murakami bingo
— Dec 16, 2025 04:28PM

