Norwegian Wood

Just finished Haruki Murakami's bestseller lastnight. loved it.
his style of storytelling, at least for this particular book, is reminiscent of the catcher in the rye to me. as was the protagonist, Toru Watanabe; sort of like a less dark version of Holden Caulfield, but just as brooding nonetheless.
Murakami is now officially one of my favourite contemporary writers, well as far as love stories go, i suppose. South of the Border, West of the Sun was the book i read first. the story was simple, but it was his style of writing, and the development of his characters that pulled me. it was a short novel, so i was hungry for more. naturally i chose to read Norwegian Wood, with it being the novel that shot Murakami to international fame. this is another love story, albeit a more complex, moving tale. i cannot decide whether to laugh or cry with every new development in the story, the way Murakami made each of his characters to be not without emotional unrest, it was all very engagingly touching.
The Wind up Bird Chronicles will be my next foray into the uniquely bewitching world of Haruki Murakami.