Hard Boiled Wonderland

To start with, I must say Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World was one of my most interesting books I have ever read, only because it’s was very fun and interesting to read. Also I thought it was an intensely engaging book because it had many social and philosophical issues that have oddly become true since being published in 1985. After finishing this book chapter 31-40 was just really summing up everything, yet it was a bit confusing to me too. What I have to say, I started to notice myself asking questions like: “What is an individual’s relation to a global government and economy that Murakami couldn't even begin to understand or affect in any way?” or “What was a individual’s relation to these endless cycles of consumption imposed by these superstructures?”. I felt like these issues was an …show more content…
Hard-Boiled Wonderland was kind of like how present-day Tokyo is, even although it has been enhanced with all kinds of futuristic technology and conspiracies surrounding the development and use of that technology. The top protagonist of Hard-Boiled Wonderland was not a traditional hard-boiled detective but more of a skilled, deadpan like Calcutec who encodes information using a special ability artificially implanted in his brain. In the book his life runs smoothly and predictably up until he was given a job that plunges him into a secretive conflict between the government and an organization of information pirates called “the Factory”. Needless to say, the End of the World Chapter was more of quiet chapter, pastoral fantasyscape centered around a small town, as well surrounded by an enormous, insurmountable wall, kind of like that Simpson Episode. In this chapter, the protagonist of this side of the story had recently come to the area and then goes on to settle in as the new “Dreamreader” in the town’s library while at the same time exploring the surrounding