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butlerian
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Location: Korea
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 Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:25 am Post subject: Haruki Murakami - The Wind-up Bird Chronicles |
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Great book...recommended  |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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| His short stories are better than his novels. Get yourself a copy of The Elephant Vanishes and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. |
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faster
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| SuperHero wrote: |
| His short stories are better than his novels. Get yourself a copy of The Elephant Vanishes and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. |
I disagree. I think The Wind-Up Bird... is his best work. People get a little breathless about him, but his stuff is good.
His non-fiction book about the sarin gas Tokyo subway attack (the Aum cult) is awesome, too. |
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Kenny Kimchee
Joined: 12 May 2003
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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| faster wrote: |
| SuperHero wrote: |
| His short stories are better than his novels. Get yourself a copy of The Elephant Vanishes and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. |
I disagree. I think The Wind-Up Bird... is his best work. People get a little breathless about him, but his stuff is good.
His non-fiction book about the sarin gas Tokyo subway attack (the Aum cult) is awesome, too. |
You guys aren't actually disagreeing, since a portion of Wind Up Bird is in The Elephant Vanishes. My favorite story from Elephant was "Barn Burning" or something like that.
I love Murakami because I can empathize with the protagonists - 30-something single guys with an existentialist crisis and a taste for jazz and classic rock. The early stuff is great, but the later stuff is kind of one-trick pony. I read Kafka on the Shore this summer and wasn't really impressed. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I find his short stories to be a bit on the boring side. Wind-Up Bird Chronicles was great. I'm slowly getting through Kafka on the Shore. Just don't find it as interesting as his earlier works. |
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faster
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Kenny Kimchee wrote: |
| faster wrote: |
| SuperHero wrote: |
| His short stories are better than his novels. Get yourself a copy of The Elephant Vanishes and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. |
I disagree. I think The Wind-Up Bird... is his best work. People get a little breathless about him, but his stuff is good.
His non-fiction book about the sarin gas Tokyo subway attack (the Aum cult) is awesome, too. |
You guys aren't actually disagreeing, since a portion of Wind Up Bird is in The Elephant Vanishes. My favorite story from Elephant was "Barn Burning" or something like that.
I love Murakami because I can empathize with the protagonists - 30-something single guys with an existentialist crisis and a taste for jazz and classic rock. The early stuff is great, but the later stuff is kind of one-trick pony. I read Kafka on the Shore this summer and wasn't really impressed. |
I agree with your assessment completely (except I can't relate to his protagonists at all; well, okay, I like some jazz pretty well). |
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Are they the lemmings
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Location: Not here anymore. JongnoGuru was the only thing that kept me here.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| bucheon bum wrote: |
| ...Kafka on the Shore. Just don't find it as interesting as his earlier works. |
Good call. I read Kafka on the Shore in Japanese so I don't know how good/bad it is in English. However, for a while I skipped the chapters about Kafka ruminating over his genitalia and went straight to the parts about old man Nakata's trip with the young trucker.
Ultimately, I liked Kafka, but I felt there was lots of flab on it. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| faster wrote: |
His non-fiction book about the sarin gas Tokyo subway attack (the Aum cult) is awesome, too. |
Yeah, an amazing book.
There was a program on Discovery on the 10 year anniversary of the event, and I think youtube might have it too.
Ah, here's 10 minutes of it, interesting stuff:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hC6fuOYmp_A |
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