My chase started after a friend across the ocean planted the seed in my mind.
The title says it all. The journey is about chasing a sheep, and ends with a somewhat heroic sacrifice. Everything only makes sense after the mind accepts supernatural events as part of life, as logic and reason.
An extremely enjoyable and refreshing read!
I know this belongs to bestseller category. One friend commented it felt like the novel was trying too hard to create suspense. Another friend gave up after finishing 1/3 of it, as she had Crime and Punishment (by Fyodor Dostoyevsky) in mind. I had to read it for myself.
I struggled to feel the suspense in the book. The only reason for clearing it is i did not wish to leave it half done. A far cry from my recent experience with Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, i would say.
Most of the time i was reading the mind of a drunkard, trying to recall what she had done the previous night. Nothing much. Just a broken person trying hard to be part of a mystery, which was not even a mystery in the first place, if she wasn’t a drunkard.
And the association with trains? Sigh…
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