Could not finish Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Murakami Haruki

I know many consider this as the best Murakami novel, 4.11 on Goodreads, which is not common.

But I couldn't read it all along. I found it so overwritten and confusing, the text is so much compared to the plot that I couldn't get over the first chapters. I prolonged its borrowing from my library five times, fell asleep several nights reading it (which is not so bad for a bedtime reading). Even read some analysis, but the whole book just couldn't catch me and I couldn't understand the fandom around it. As an avid Murakami reader and fan, I was disappointed, had to give up like Dance, Dance, Dance.

Maybe The city… will be closer to me.