I ended up really loving this, despite its slow beginning. I read the last hundred pages in one night, staying up late and listening to my Saint-Saens playlist on Pandora... It was lovely. Once they got to Junitaki, I could just picture that remote landscape so well in my head, and it was the perfect reading for a fall night. I'm glad it turned out well because I was going to be seriously bummed if this had been the first Murakami novel I didn't enjoy.