Apr 24, 2012  [Books] 1Q84  It took me a while to finally get
around to posting a review for this book, which probably makes
sense given how long it took me to actually finish reading it to
begin with. And while the works of Haruki Murakami aren't
typically known to be light or casual reading by any standards,
this book was definitely a bit of a challenge to get through due
to sheer length beyond anything else.  Now I don't claim to be
some literary expert and thus those landing on this review
hoping to pick up something that might be usable in a term paper
based around the book are out of luck. While I will do my best
to express my honest opinion about the title, I don't
necessarily claim that I'll be following any sort of pattern
related to more "established" schools of literary theory and the
like.  But I am a major Murakami fan, and that's the perspective
that you can expect here. I've read most of this books and I'd
like to think I've walked away with a decent enough
understanding of the various books an