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simplephysics 04-11-2009 05:50 PM

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.

I've never read any of Murakami's short stories, but I'm expecting good things based from some of the novels I've read by him.

Molecules 04-11-2009 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by dreadnaught (Post 635527)
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.

I've never read any of Murakami's short stories, but I'm expecting good things based from some of the novels I've read by him.

i've read his old stuff 'a wild sheep chase' and 'hardboiled wonderland...', long time ago but I remember them being really good, those ones certainly incorporated a lot of fantasy.
I would recommend his non-fiction book about the Tokyo subway gas attacks of 1995, it's far from a cold journalistic account of events, trust me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_(stories)

I just finished the Portrait of Dorian Gray, love Oscar.

I am well into this now. Autobiography of legendary winger Stanley Matthews. Golden age of football, when men were real men who lived in terraced houses and chewed on boot leather and didn't break into giggle fits if you used words like 'community spirit', etc. F*cking brilliant
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA240_.jpg

LoathsomePete 04-11-2009 07:32 PM

I just finished "Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbangers History of Heavy Metal" by Ian Christe and picked up "Let the Right One In" by John Ajvide Lindqvist. I've already seen the movie and now I want to see what the differences between the book and movie are.

simplephysics 04-11-2009 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Molecules (Post 635557)
i've read his old stuff 'a wild sheep chase' and 'hardboiled wonderland...', long time ago but I remember them being really good, those ones certainly incorporated a lot of fantasy.
I would recommend his non-fiction book about the Tokyo subway gas attacks of 1995, it's far from a cold journalistic account of events, trust me
Underground (stories) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I did see that he had a nonfiction book, I will definitely be checking it out.
I recently read Kafka On The Shore and really enjoyed it, one of his better novels from what I've gathered.

Duke Of Slander 04-13-2009 02:03 AM

Definitely. Once you reread Kafka you'll find more and more connections that it just becomes mind boggling.

FireInCairo 04-13-2009 02:26 AM

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

and
The Divine Comedy, Volume one: Inferno - Dante

Molecules 04-13-2009 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by FireInCairo (Post 636620)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

and
The Divine Comedy, Volume one: Inferno - Dante

i've got this in the to-read pile from my birthday, i feel like i shouldn't have seen the 90's movie version with Jeremy Irons, kind of given it away

SydMM 04-13-2009 09:35 AM

The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket.

adidasss 04-14-2009 05:54 PM

I tried listening to an audiobook of All the pretty horses by McCarthy but couldn't get into it at all. I don't think I'll be trying that again.

I've moved on to Crime and punishment by Dostoyevsky.

khfreek 04-15-2009 08:24 PM

http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/large_im.../204173885.jpg

Was originally intended as a source for my research paper, but it's a good read.


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