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Post by Teleram on Nov 4, 2015 19:13:44 GMT -5
game of thrones
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Nov 19, 2015 7:35:48 GMT -5
I'm reading Murakami's Hear the Wind Sing, and this is how one of the chapters open:
"The Rat's novel had two good things about it. First, there were no sex scenes; second, no one died."
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Post by Reba on Nov 19, 2015 9:28:03 GMT -5
wow, and that's one of the few murakami books i haven't actually read.
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Nov 20, 2015 12:00:59 GMT -5
wow, and that's one of the few murakami books i haven't actually read. It's the only regular Murakami novel I've read. I've pretty much ploughed through his more 'irregular' works - his autobiography, 1q84, The Strange Library and the short story collections - but somehow I can't get started on the novels. I bought the new Wind/Pinball book so I'd have somewhere natural to start.
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Post by Reba on Nov 20, 2015 14:43:20 GMT -5
what's irregular about 1Q84?
i heard Wind/Pinball is a bit awkward and amateur, and since Murakami's only just agreed to publish it in english, i would think of it more as a natural place to end. but whatever
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Nov 20, 2015 16:10:54 GMT -5
what's irregular about 1Q84? i heard Wind/Pinball is a bit awkward and amateur, and since Murakami's only just agreed to publish it in english, i would think of it more as a natural place to end. but whatever I think of it as an irregular work because it's in three seperately released parts, and because I've heard it called his Magnum Opus a few different places. But mainly, I think, it's because my copy looks different from my copies of the other books (I have those red/white/black Vintage editions, which I don't think this one is available in). Well, Wind is a lot less elegant than the other of his things things I've read, but at the same time he makes it look a lot easier than it does in 1Q84, or a lot of his short stories. I thought a few times while reading it that 'you can see how this guy is going to become Murakami', in a similar way to my feelings when reading The Basic Eight ('You can see how this narrator is the predecessor of Lemony Snicket'- Which isn't to say that TB8's narrator feels in any way incomplete, just that I see the likeness, but I'm getting off the topic here. Again, since the topic I'm getting off isn't what this thread was about in the first place). And then there's quite a few quotes you can relate to in there, like the one I posted.
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Post by B. on Nov 20, 2015 16:12:35 GMT -5
I really liked 1Q84, but I've not read anything else.
If you had to recommend a Murakami novel to read after that, which would you suggest?
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Post by Reba on Nov 20, 2015 16:23:13 GMT -5
the wind-up bird chronicle is something like a miniature 1Q84 imo, and that's what i read after.
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Nov 20, 2015 16:24:12 GMT -5
I really liked 1Q84, but I've not read anything else. If you had to recommend a Murakami novel to read after that, which would you suggest? I actually prefer his short story collections over his novels (having only read two novels, mind, the ones I discussed before), but I think most people disagree with me - including the author himself, I seem to recall reading somewhere. If I want to get someone to read Murakami, the one I usually recommend is 'The Elephant Vanishes', which is Short Stories. EDIT: ^Listen to bear instead, he's actually read some of his other novels.^
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Nov 20, 2015 21:15:33 GMT -5
I've only read The Elephant Vanishes (sometime last year), and it did make me want to read more. I just never got around to it yet.
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Post by soufflé on Nov 20, 2015 22:37:25 GMT -5
I read the one about spaghetti and I liked it so I should read more of his
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Nov 20, 2015 22:53:59 GMT -5
I think he's written a lot about spaghetti.
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Post by soufflé on Nov 21, 2015 10:43:21 GMT -5
pretty sure a majority of those quotes are from the same spaghetti story
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Post by Reba on Nov 21, 2015 13:25:10 GMT -5
i don't know the spaghetti story you're talking about but i do recall characters making spaghetti a lot.
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Post by soufflé on Nov 21, 2015 15:15:45 GMT -5
It's called the year of spaghetti
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