Anyone else got a bit bored with Norwegian Wood?

[Schulte]

I mean it's a good book and that guy's a great writer but all that shagging and beer drinking is starting to grate. It's a bit like Betty Blue, only Betty Blue is better. Or AIBU?

[MarshaBrady]

Enjoy.I know the red wine is working when I write posts like the last one

[Schulte]

Meg - you do

[ensure]

Norwegian Wood, I found very very dull. I avoided Murakami afterwards then picked up The Wind Up Bird Chronicles years later for some reason and loved it.

David Mitchell- you can see Murakami's influence sometimes in some books I think, but Cloud Atlas, for example, isn't very Murakami-y at all.

[UnquietDad]

I didn't just get "a bit bored" with it - I got utterly pissed off with it. The endless descriptions of drinking in bars and what people ate, the soulless female characters and self-absorbed narrator... I hated it more with each page.

[cazzybabs]

Ohh I quite liked it but then I like all of his books. They are all quite odd - infact Norwegian Wood is the least odd

[anonacfr]

I also love his books. I found Norwegian Wood lovely and nostalgic. It did make me cry but then anything that deals with suicide does.

Haven't read David Mitchell for a while. I absolutely loved Cloud Atlas when I read it a few years back. Which is the one with the Japanese cult suicide bomber type character? That was also pretty good.

I need to re-read them.