[winjer]

I nearly doubled over when I saw this in the window of the bookstore.

Unfortunatley consumed it entirely the next two days.

Murakami's style, I've decided, is quite a bit better suited to the short story form... its much easier for him to pull off his open-endedness and metaphysical mysteriousness when it's only a few pages long. Its a little harder to swallow when his 500 page novels remain seemingly devoid of resolution.

Anyway... amazing collection, despite a lot of them already appearing in the New Yorker and such...