In early 2020, still reading heavy classics like the Odyssey, the Ramayana and Siddhartha, Tamir joined a book club so he wouldn't control the picks. When Murakami came up, he chose Hard-Boiled Wonderland on Neil Strauss's recommendation, listened on long pandemic walks, and after Audible's sign-off line, in the silence, thought: 'I did not know a book could do that to me.'
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