PoizonMushro0m
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I am currently on Chapter 9 and I am loving the book a lot!
I am currently on Chapter 9 and I am loving the book a lot!
Currently reading?
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I've owned a copy of this book for six years and I've still yet to actually read it. I keep meaning to but I get distracted with other books. I keep trying to get through my to-read pile but then I see something new and shiny that demands I give it my full attention ASAP.
You should read it, it's well worth one's attention. This and 1Q84 are my favorites so far I think by him. Yet to read Tsukuru Tazaki though.
I've 1Q84 still to read too haha. I've the hardcovers under my bed at the moment and every time I dare to pick up Volume 1&2 and consider reading it I get scared away by the sheer size of it. I probably should have read it over the summer, because I know I won't start books of that size during the semester - can't carry them in my bag! Not even going to bother picking up his latest book until I get through the other three unread books by him that I already own.
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That trilogy is really good, I love his more "everyday" works rather than his more weird ones tbh. I wish his rat trilogy were easier to get but most are OOP it seems at least in the west.
Have a great time reading them when you do
Have a great time reading them when you do
i read 1q84 on my kindle so i never really experienced the sheer size of it. i second all of what moko has said though - they're absolutely wonderful books, i adore the surreal worlds he manages to create and how everything is so dreamlike in his stories.
Volume 1&2 = approx 600 pages. Volume 3 is less intimating. My parents got me the hardback copies for Christmas one year, which just makes it even heavier (they're so pretty though).
I've read some of his other books (A Wild Sheep Chase, Dance Dance Dance, Kafka on the Shore*, After Dark, and Sputnik Sweetheart) but I read them so close together that I think I burned out on them haha. This was 5-6 years ago. He's easily one of, if not my top, favourite author but I get so distracted. Most of my 'for fun' reading consists of guilty pleasure light-hearted erotica & romance novels nowadays haha.
* ties with George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as one of my favourite books of all time.
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Yeah, I have 1Q84 in three separate paperbacks so it wasn't that 'heavy' for me. Alas, really great books.
@Tina, I read those and some others by him(still need to read some of his short story stuff and some of his older stuff that is harder to get though) and I enjoyed all of them, but yeah 1Q84 and Norwegian Wood are my favorites by him.
I really recommend his Underground if you guys are into non-fiction and more psychological stuff.. so good.
While we are talking about Japanese authors, any of you guys read anything by Ryu Murakami? Almost Transparent Blue if probably one of my favorite books ever(and also the origin of my Moko username; it's after one of the female characters there). I also managed to get In the Miso Soup, and while it's not as fantastic it's still worth a read. I do need get his other things though but they are not that published or distributed around here :/
@Tina, I read those and some others by him(still need to read some of his short story stuff and some of his older stuff that is harder to get though) and I enjoyed all of them, but yeah 1Q84 and Norwegian Wood are my favorites by him.
I really recommend his Underground if you guys are into non-fiction and more psychological stuff.. so good.
While we are talking about Japanese authors, any of you guys read anything by Ryu Murakami? Almost Transparent Blue if probably one of my favorite books ever(and also the origin of my Moko username; it's after one of the female characters there). I also managed to get In the Miso Soup, and while it's not as fantastic it's still worth a read. I do need get his other things though but they are not that published or distributed around here :/
davidlblack
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Terminal by Kathy/Brendan Reichs. Last book in the Virals series, its really good so far.
Underground is on my list of books to buy. Banned myself from buying any more of his books until I've read the ones I've already got haha.
I love Ryu Murakami's work. I've read In The Miso Soup, Piercing, 69, Almost Transparent Blue, Popular Hits of the Showa Era, and Coin Locker Babies. I want to pick up From the Fatherland, With Love once I get through more of my backlog. His style is a lot more raw, but it suits his stories.
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davidlblack
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By rj palacio? its just called Wonder.
Makes sense.
Niiiice, I so want to read 69 but better order it off Amazon or something cause his books are very uncommon here, I think you can get In the Miso Soup somewhat easily but that's it. I was lucky to get Almost Transparent Blue. One of my most prized books I have if I may put it that way, it's soooo good.
