Other than Norwegian Wood, what do you like? What do you recommend?

I'm reading The Windup Bird Chronicle now.

i'm reading the wind up bird chronicle, but i've stalled

not read any others

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I loved Norwegian Wood. How do you like wind up so far..?

wind up bird is really good

dance dance dance is amazing

my japanese sensei went to the jazz club he owned in tokyo

enough not to have picked it up again in a while. it's probably fine, but i have attention span problems at the moment

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I'm a massive fan of Murakami, and *nearly* read all of the books: I loved norweigan wood, my other favorites are after dark, a wild sheep chase (which precedes dance dance dance with references/themes); the first book i read which really got me hooked was sputnik sweetheart-it is gorgeous.
Im currently reading wind up bird (i was always put off by the size of it) finding good as ever (ive never been able to fault the author really).
How are you finding the book?

I've read up to page 9 of the first chapter. I am enjoying it so far. I'm hoping that I'll enjoy it as much as Norwegian Wood.

I really liked A Wild Sheep Chase and Sputnik Sweetheart. Wind Up Bird was good but started to drag and become a bit too surreal half way through. But pretty much anything you pick up by him will be decent if not great.

I made a topic about this but the other Murakami ryu is really good as well, darker too I think

I have managed to miss out all his well known books and read only his random ones. I have read South of the Border, West of the Sun (good) and The Elephant Vanishes, which is a collection of short stories, which is also very good.

anyon read kafka over the shore

I've read both sputnik sweetheart and wind up bird. didnt like them, i mean he practically plagiarized John Fowles' "The Magus". read THAT.

I enjoyed Kafka on the Shore - atmospheric.

well i have and i can see from what i've read of the wind up bird that it could easily be another magus. but is it a good imitation? because if so i'd happily read it

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kafka on the shore vs. the wind-up bird chronicle

I borrowed wind-up but I've heard mixed reviews and I'm thinking of asking for kafka for xmas.

halp? thnx.

I always wanted to read something by him, which book would you recommend first?

i love how certain stuff ends up in all his books like, jazz and cats and being a loner and certain authors and bands. its like continuity. and im geek and get excited when i see past references.

i always get really hungry whenever i read his books.

what was the book with johnny walker? that was horrible ohh and the one with a war and army and a man being skinned alive...i want to re read that one. my memory is awful.

The one with the man being skinned alive, and then it also happening again in a dream, is from the wind up bird chronicle. That was the one of the most disgusting things i'd ever encountered, but i had to read it at the same time!

since 'wind-up' they have been getting progressively worse, with kafka on the shore the weakest of the 5 or 6 i have. Although, still better than most modern authors.

'Wind-up' is the master peice, 'norwegian wood' and 'hard boiled wonderland' are both fine novels, especially NW.

i read wind up bird a couple of years ago and LOVED it. in the middle of norwegian wood at the moment.