I read this book in a couple of hours - like all Murakami novels, it's just very easy to get into. I've always loved Murakami's novels and I think they're really quintessentially disturbing - but having some sort of morality message at the bottom makes it seem much less like a chapter of A Clockwork Orange.
Characters:
Well, giving the fact that The Rat was my favourite character, he was also in the book - A Wild Sheep Chase and has the same credentials. He seems skeptical and cynical at first - but then evolves into being more sarcastic and cultured than our narrator. He truly is a character to be admired.
Themes:
The theme of the psyche is one that I adore in all Murakami novels. It doesn't really go by any particular chronology, which means you have to really pay attention section-by-section to understand what the narrator is getting to. But when we think we are going deeper into the narrator's psyche, we're actually following our own.
Storyline:
As for the storyline, the amount of girlfriends this guy has is strange and given the fact that one has committed suicide and hasn't really changed him that much is quite weird too. He talks about these girls as if they were objects in his life that either became tarnished, or he grew a distance too. That makes it quite odd to read - the objectification of people in this sense.
Verdict:
I give this book 8/9
100% for characters: I loved The Rat in The Wild Sheep Chase and still have the same opinion about him now.
100% for themes: I did like the theme of the psyche, and not forgetting the symbol of cats, which is in every single Murakami novel.
2/3 for storyline: The storyline got 2, just because the book was a little short - couldn't get my head around the ending either.
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