A Wild Sheep Chase

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User Review - Aug3Zimm - LibraryThing

Intellectually interesting but not emotionally engaging. One thing I really enjoy about Murakami is how he portrays a sense of disconnectedness between people. That feeling was more prevalent in the ... Read full review

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User Review - CharlotteBurt - LibraryThing

As you would expect from Murakami this is a strange tale, but a good read nonetheless. All about the search for a specific sheep with a star on its back. This has everything you would expect with a ... Read full review

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User Review - superpeer - LibraryThing

Murakami's first widely published novel. It took me a while to get into this one, the first 30 pages or so went very slowly. This is the fourth book by him I've read and it seems to me that Murakami ... Read full review

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User Review - JonathanMchll - LibraryThing

It may have been just the frame of mind I was in at the time, but I found The Wind Up Bird Chronicle too strange and directionless about 250 pages in to continue. Despite this, when I found a copy of ... Read full review

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User Review - Ayling - LibraryThing

My head is spinning. What on earth was that all about? I only semi-understand. I think it would really help if I knew a bit more about Japanese culture and history.I've given this a three because I ... Read full review

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User Review - na-chan - LibraryThing

Ok you can blame the bookstore at my school for this one XD I picked this up at the bookstore because I had very little of 'the wanting seed' left to read so well I was looking around at random books ... Read full review

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User Review - fieldnotes - LibraryThing

I am a fan of this author. I enjoy reading his novels while moving around: on the subway, in an airplane, amongst distractions. Murakami verges on being little more than an indie rock version of a ... Read full review

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User Review - kntmit - LibraryThing

I have read a few other Murakami books (Wind-Up Bird..., Kafka on the Shore, After Dark), all of which I enjoyed. A Wild Sheep Chase had a very intriguing premise, and I was quickly drawn in to its ... Read full review

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User Review - emhromp2 - LibraryThing

A very strange book. I just had to go with the flow, so to speak. The story is about a japanese man, who is forced to go searching for a sheep he has a picture of. Apparently the possession of this ... Read full review