Quote Originally Posted by Rye View Post
If you do like Norwegian Wood, I'd recommend going on to trying either Wind-Up Bird Chronicle or After Dark. Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a door-stopper of a book and VERY surreal, but is considered his "masterpiece" and most polished of his novels, which I agree with. After Dark is probably my favorite Murakami book - it takes place within one night and is written in the third place, which is very unusual for him. It's not extremely surreal.
I tried Wind Up Bird Chronicle and I just could not get through it. I don't think I'm a fan of surrealist writing. =/