All Intensive Purposes

I read this story last night and loved it. Although, as T.S. has said of Murakami before, I'm hard-pressed to know what to say about it exactly.

I loved the details (Mmm, pancakes and bacon...) and the uncanny tension created early on and sustained throughout.

I also liked this Hitchcock reference:

"If we were in a Hitchcock movie, the screen would have started to ripple at this point and we'd have segued into a flashback. But this was no movie, and no flashback was forthcoming."

-AR