1Q84

I really don't know if I am going to review this book just here and now.
This is my first of any Murakami works and though I did find it monotonous, repetitive at times, I ended up wanting more of what and how these principal characters were playing in my mind's eye.
What I do want to say, first of all, is that it made me want more... and I firmly feel I am going to read more, much more by the author. The ending of the book was a bit abrupt for me and certain plot references in the first half of the book seemed contrived and intentional as far as the lives of the characters double up... or the way these lives are introduced to the foreign reader. But there are a few things that must be given a mention in my view. In the end, you feel you have acquainted yourself with the character mentality thoroughly and it seems you know them, met them and started following up there lives somewhere. This is made possible for the expansive dimensional space Murakami chooses to exert over the reader.. It goes bit by bit and this presumably threefold space sort of sucks the reader into the world of 1Q84.
I found some of the literary references concise and well placed...
Apart from Aomame and Tengo, I could really feel Ushikawa develops into a full blood and bones character. His and Tamaru's interaction, for me, is one highlight of the book.
I feel like writing more on this book... just as I have stated that it makes me read more by Murakami. The possibility of story-telling manifests pretty crisply through this book, and though I don't find it a great book I'd say you cannot put down or ignore the parallel magical world witnessed so.