I hate romance as a genre but this book I loved to pieces for its writing style. Murakami's writing style has always been very smooth and entertaining. I did not find it hard to read any part of this book regardless overly explained sexual content, the parts about suicide and death and the raw description of women's bofy parts. It was such a smooth read for me. There were great quotes all through out but my favourite was  “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” I couldn't agree more with this line.