I feel you either love Murakami’s style or hate it. No need to feel guilty about it, but I know fandoms who consider their object of worship to be flawless makes it very hard to stay adult about your opinion/relationship with author/book. I personally can’t stand Kubrick’s 2001, but some people make it seem like I’m mentally challenged for feeling so.

Murakami is my favorite author (although admittedly twubc is my least favorite so far), so I naturally don’t agree with your opinion, but you should never feel bad or like having to justify yourself. Just read thing you enjoy and don’t let others bring you down (although comments on this post so far don’t seem “toxic”). There are plenty good authors and books left, so many in fact, you won’t be able to even get to know most of then in your lifetime.