Kafka on the Shore

read until mid-chapter 17

the more i read this book the more i didn't like it. thought it was going to be a super interesting read especially with the WWII tie in. the characters in the book were all so two-dimensional. you would read about ‘kafka' doing things but not really how his internal monologue was developing throughout the story. nakata was a more interesting character due to his disability that had something to do with the incident on the hill. that incident was probably the most interesting part about the book. maybe i would've liked the plot and characters more but the journey was definitely not worth getting to the destination.

the cat torturing scene was the last straw. i started it and skipped a few pages but i genuinely didn't care what happened to these characters or where the story was going. oops, sorry. maybe i'll try reading another murakami novel in the future, but this book has kind deterred me from reading more of his work. i guess time will tell!