Norwegian Wood

tale of love and strained devotions not nearly as popular as it should be. Quiet, lyrical, subdued, this novel draws you into the world of the agonies and joys of loving. Simply a great read.

Poorly read. Improper pronunciation of Japanese names. Inappropriate inflection. Glacially slowly developed plot. I expected much more of Murakami. I\’m quite disappointed.

The narrator\’s female voice was annoying. Also, he missed the correct inflection at times. I wish I would\’ve read this book instead of listen. With Murakami\’s books, I will read instead, I\’ll listen to more mainstream authors on Audible.

Murakami\’s brilliant Norwegian Wood made me feel throughout the book as if everything inside of my skin had been scraped and gutted out leaving me empty. I feel a great appreciation for the world created within Norwegian Wood and even feel as if I have become a better person because I made it through the book. Fantastic characters pulled me into thoughts that were so compelling and engaging. The narrator for the most part did a basically good job but being third generation American Japanese, wow, when he repeatedly totally mangled simple Japanese names, it was so painful. Midori is pronounced Me do (long \”o\” as in door) ri. The narrator would say: me-der-ree with a rapid pace, wow. When reading the Midori character\’s words as portrayed by the narrator, I could barely handle it and even looked up the free online PDF text so I could be spared the way in which the narrator did Midori. Nonetheless, I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated my experience of listening to Norwegian Wood on Audible.

this is very dfferent from other murakami novels, there\’s not so much imagination and absurdness to it but the concreteness of it is nice. still I feel it compliments murakamis other work quite well. would recommend to anyone interested in his work.

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