Norwegian Wood

 Murakami's book makes me feel like I am the character living in Tokyo and doing the usual shit. It's like living a different life. Like the secret life of Toru Watanabe (in the case of Norwegian Wood) Because it's a simple slice-of-life story where every character has their own struggle and their own problems. Just like a real life. People are flawed and they try to do stuff to fill this hole in their life. As a first-person reader, we as the main characters and observers, begin to connect with them, and .. Murakami's way of setting the scene is absolutely fantastic. The way he goes to detail explains to us the mood and clothes and everything. I feel like I am in that place and the moment is in fact, happening. There is no way to doubt when there is no fancy magical shit. Just me and Reiko sitting on a stack of salt sacks in a closed storeroom or me and Midori drinking whiskey with pistachio. That's the kind of vividness I like about the book. I love How I can picture in my head the exact scenery. More than that, the story is more human and coming of age. When one's life is filled with responsibility for somebody while another is searching for his own self. The thing is that I can find myself in their shoes and that's what I like about.