Now that I am on a Haruki Murakami kick, I thought I should read Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World. I started the book on the plane to Istanbul and didn't feel like I got into it as quickly as the other two I read. That might have been because it also took me the longest to read (or maybe it took me the longest to read because I didn't get into it as quickly as the other two, who knows?) I felt like this was the most resolved of the three I've read so far and I really liked it a lot by the end. For reasons I can't really put into words, Kafka is still my favorite one. I have three more Murakami books on my shelf and look forward to reading every single one.

I truly owe a big thank you to the AskMe crowd for introducing me to this great author.