17 chapters under my belt now, some Kindle, most Audible, and there's a lot less weirdness than I anticipated, especially from the opening chapters. Of course, there is the whole thing about the guy who talks to cats, but that was expected from the book's advertising blurb. Not that there isn't a lot of weird, just nothing unbelievable except for the cat thing. Of course, that may change.

I'm giving everyone fair warning: If you read the first seventeen chapters and walk away, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You read the eighteenth chapter and beyond, you stay in wonderland, and Murakami shows you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Yes, it has now officially become very weird. And thoroughly enjoyable. Great selection this month.

^I was going to say something when you said "a lot less weirdness than I anticipated" comment because I was two chapters ahead. :P

Cats are in almost all of his books. If a cat does something strange, its often the least strange thing in the novel. They kind of ease your way into more strangeness. :)

Damn!! I am on chapter 17 and can't wait for 18th chapter and i have office tomorrow :o