I decided to read this because everyone seems to love Murakami, and I vaguely remembered having read something of his years and years ago and not really liked it. So I wanted to give it another go and see what the fuss was about. I should have stuck to my memories, because the fuss was about nothing! Murakami writes magical realism, and I HATE magical realism! I’m just like “Pick a genre! Is it realism or is it magical??!” I just can’t deal with talking cats and supernatural beings in a supposedly “real world” setting. But anyway, on with the review! “Kafka on the Shore" is about a 15-year-old boy from Tokyo who runs away from home. He lives with his father and apparently doesn’t feel like he can stay there. It is not really explained all that well, I feel. He runs away and meets a young woman, whom he randomly believes to be his long-lost sister, who left the family with his mother when he was a kid. That doesn’t stop him from having sexual fantasies about her, th...
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