Norwegian Wood is a bit more grounded in reality than the rest of Haruki Murakami’s works, but it still offers a bunch of quirky but profound characters, and a surprisingly involving plot despite not that much actually happening in the story.
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Pleasant, fast-paced, easy-to-digest prose
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Nothing that much memorable actually happens in the story
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Likable, quirky, profound characters
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A surprisingly involving plot
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Enlightening on Japanese culture
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Thought-provoking on the meaning of life
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