Norwegian Wood

It's really a problem when a character driven book has characters that aren't likable. I really couldn't get past the surface level discriptions of the side characters, especially the way the female characters were described or should I say not described at all beyond being sexual objects. In a world created so beautifully, more effort was put into describing scenery than describing any person in the book. Absolutely a loss of opportunity here to discuss themes such as mental illness, death, wartime. Instead, the author minimizes all of these to background noise and focuses on hyper sexualizing every character as a way to cope with being a very one-dimension main character. A complete bore of a book and anyone who says otherwise is reading between the lines things that are simply not there.