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croissants_are_tasty LinkI just finished the Wind Up Bird Chronicles and honestly still processing it. It wasn’t what I would call a page turner, but it was deeply compelling. The strange heady feeling that he describes...I just finished the Wind Up Bird Chronicles and honestly still processing it. It wasn’t what I would call a page turner, but it was deeply compelling. The strange heady feeling that he describes almost comes out of the page and made me feel the same way. It also contains some of the most graphic/gruesome scenes I think I’ve ever read.
I’m glad to have read it but I don’t know if I’ll ever want to revisit it.
Now I’m on to some light hearted fantasy as a palette cleanser!
I didn’t know anything about him so the magical realism caught me by surprise. Besides the extra focus on his member- his sex scenes were weirdly clinical, explicit and borderline pornographic, but not sexy.
I was a little annoyed by the implication of why his wife left - I felt it had far more to do with communication between them rather than any events in their lives (vague because I don’t know how to do a spoiler tag).
But the writing was compelling and descriptive- not a page turner but sort of demanded to be read. The movie that played in my head was just weird art film. I loved his writing for that if nothing else - because it was a unique experience.
Specific scenes, the one with the woman licking his cheek was so weird, that sense of him being like “wtf is going on” was funny and absurd and great.
I also loved cinnamon as a character.
What did you enjoy?