SPOILER ALERT!

I would like to start a discussion about the book Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami. I just finished reading it and it sits in my mind...
I need to think it over some more still.

I am hoping that this can be a place were other reader of the book can give their view on the book. The story has so much to it...

I will post/respond in a while, after I have thought things over.

Maybe this is a place that gives a start for disucssion (see Guide half way through the page):
http://www.bookbrowse.com/reading_guides/detail/index.cfm?book_number=1540

I read it a few months ago. By Murakami I have also read A Wild Sheep Chase and South of the Border, West of the Sun.

Some of the concepts and idle musings of the characters were very interesting. I particularly enjoyed the slow old man and his dialogue.

But, like the other two books by Murakami I have read, the plot seemed to fizzle out 2/3rds of the way through, and the rest seemed to be filler. There seemed to be many layers of "deep" meaning that did not get resolved and did not play a major role in the conclusion of the story and its themes. ie, the jungle, the transforming ordeal, and the various symbols and metaphors presented in that section were convoluted. It seemed like many things were thrown in just to create the illusion of significance. Maybe I just haven't understood it properly.

I would like to hear your interpretation and opinion though. Enlighten me