the wind-up bird chronicle

i liked this even more than hard-boiled wonderland. i’ll probably have lea read this this year for our christmas exchange.

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slith,

this book is great, especially if you like weird things. This felt like a series of vignettes that somehow was a story. I also had the disconcerting sense that there was a big puppet master controlling the story, like someone was looking in on the characters…did you feel that way? Am I making ANY sense? What did you think of the book specifically? I read it like 4 years ago so mine may not be the most bleeding-edge criticism. Sarah tried to read it, but I think she thought it sucked. What are we going to read for OUR christmas exchange?

a little further away from reading this book, it seems to me to be sort of the inverse of hard-boiled wonderland: this book’s good points are all in the lead up, and then the finish is questionable; in wonderland, the middle is odd and doesn’t necessarily draw you in the same way, but the finish is spectacular.

Re: the puppet master comment, you’re right, although it is presented in a sort of “fate qua coincidence” sort of way, especially given that the wind-up bird is essentially the controlling/driving force.

as for our xmas xchange, i’m currently listening to / reading that wheel of time book. does that count for anything?

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