![]() But still, my idiot self wonders lazily, what’s the use of paralleling so hard? This, as I continue reading nonstop because the plot has thickened and I am in love with Chie’s unwavering loyalty and the complicated friendships I came for in the first place. I would probably be annoyed, I catch myself thinking sometime during Part II (which is no longer from loverboy’s POV, but best-friend-of-dead-girl’s POV), by the clear parallels between Perfect World and Norwegian Wood if the latter hadn’t been so insufferable and Goenawan wasn't repurposing Murakami’s own storyline so much. ![]() ![]() I am immensely uninterested in reading love stories, so imagine the tiresome displeasure of getting catfished by yet another book jacket dangling a “classmate” who lo and behold surfaces - immediately, for Part I is from his POV - as another Tokyo-based Toru chasing the mysterious woman with a troubled backstory who inexplicably disappeared to the countryside only to die with nary a warning. ![]()
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