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Well written with complex characters and more eventful than A Wild Sheep Chase. I love magical realism and his other books. But it’s almost all of his novels that always have a hint of misogyny. In Dance Dance Dance, what was making the plot going was finding out what happened to Kiki. But the narrator was pathetically desperate for Gotanda’s validation that he covered Mei’s death and didn’t even feel a slight remorse for Kiki. What was the point of him going all the way to Sapporo and meeting all the characters if it wasn’t for Kiki. Even when Gotanda admitted killing her, the narrator was still feeling sympathy for him. Also, the way Murakami describes and objectifies his female characters bothers me all the time. But besides that, the book was entertaining.