I read roughly two-thirds through Norwegian Wood. It's good, but he continues to not overly impress me (I've also read Kafka on the Shore and his short stories). I think this might be the last that I read by him for a while, got too much brilliance gathering dusts in my shelves.
And if you haven't you need to freshen up on some Kafka for a little sense of truth. A copy of Borges "Collected Fictions" makes a nice bus companion. His stuff, much like Kafka's short stories (and many others, it just happens that Kafka and Borges are my two favorite short story writers, along with Gogol and the other usual suspects), are very short, often 10 pages or less, thus you can finish them on a long bus ride or tell Missy to write them out on an email(Hi5!).
Plus, you'll be in a phuked up Borges head space when you get off the bus. All that much better.