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My thoughts on Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage : r/murakami

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Subreddit dedicated to the works of author Haruki Murakami. Murakami has written acclaimed novels such as Killing Commendatore, 1Q84, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and Kafka on the Shore. So this is my fourth Murakami (the previous ones being After Dark, Norwegian Wood and Kafka) but the first time that I'm feeling conflicted. I know Tsukuru Tazaki is considered one of his weaker works, and is almost like him "relaxing" after penning his magnum opus 1Q84, but I always thought it was an interesting premise with the colours and everything, so I was definitely looking forward to reading this. And the characters just felt weirdly stiff and scripted in a way, and I never felt like that's about any of the people that inhabit his books, no matter how outlandish they were. For me, the writing lacked that sense of ease that's associated with his prose, and it felt stilted with the first few chapters struggling with the back and forth between his high school and current life. I wouldn't say that T

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