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anybody read any of this great japanese author's work? ive read (and loved): hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world after the quake the elephant vanishes and im currently working my way through the wind up bird chronicles.. if you havent read any of his work, i thoroughly recommend it. wonderland & wind up bird are the only cohesive novels, the others are collections of short stories - but they are all by turn funny, dark, fascinating & above all, beautifully written: even the translations have a lyrical quality lacking in so many of the books ive read. don't get me wrong, murakami's not the only author ive read. i'd also recommend michael marshall smith, particularly his novel "one of us". chris bachelder's bear v. shark is very good. worth checking out if you enjoyed fight club. also, nik cohn's "yes we have no" is a great work of non-fiction. a beautifully written insight into the side of britain largely ignored in most national stereotypes. |
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Haruki Murakami is one of the best authors i've read, after I read the Wind Up Bird i've been buying all of his books! Norwegian Wood is the next book i'm going to read. |
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its on my list already.. i never usually enjoy everything that one author has written, but i think murakami might be the exception. |
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any more for any more? |
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thought i'd resurrect this thead as a forum for people to recommend any books we shouldnt live without.. something to fill the chrstmas stockings.. |
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Chris Ware - Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid In The World. It's a "graphic novel" but not like spiderman or the crow or anything... really bleak, existential history of corrigan, his life and his lineage. Well worth a read. |
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His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman is a must read series, also A Song of Ice and Fire by George R R Martin is well worth reading if you liked Lord of the Rings. Enders Game by Orson Scott Card is an excelent Sci-fi book thats being made into a movie soon. The Discworld books by Terry Pratchet are hilarious, but there are so many of them! I've only read the first 2 so far out of the 20 or so books! |
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oh and of course the Dark Tower books by Stephen King, i'm halfway through Waste Lands at the moment... excelent so far! |
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Murakami is a genius, have read most of them but cant read any more at the moment, as so many are set in tokyo and he describes so many places I have lived and hung out so well that it makes me homesick.. Great great great author though. |
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you miss Tokyo? I've never been there - but I really want to visit! |
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