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ThinlineTele
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 Re: what are you reading? I'm reading Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart, and there's this one part where they mention a newspaper story in which a lady dies and gets eaten by the cats trapped in her apartment. Maybe I'm just out of my mind, but I could have sworn I read this same thing in one of Murakami's other books. It may have been adapted from a short story (I've got both of the collections) but I left all of my books back in the US so I can't check. I've searched online and can't find anything. Any of you guys remember if this was in another one of his books as well?
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Jomei
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Re: what are you reading? There are cats in a lot of his fiction.
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ThinlineTele
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Re: what are you reading? But for some reason it feels like that exact same newspaper article was in another one of his stories. Perhaps I'm suffering from a strong case of deja vu. Wish I had Elephant Vanishes or Blind Willow with me so I could check.
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Marekenshin
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Re: what are you reading? I'm sure they have libraries at your school.
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ThinlineTele
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Re: what are you reading? As a matter of fact I got the book-in-question from the library, but I'm not sure if they have the short story books and it didn't occur to me to look when I was there. And let's face it, it's way easier to ask people on some stupid internet forum than to sit on the library floor and flip through a bunch of books.
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Jomei
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Re: what are you reading? I can't recall the specific incident you're talking about. Maybe it's something from real life that he refers to, perhaps in more than one work, though as I pointed out his works are full of cat motifs so it might simply be deja vu, as you surmised.
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Aplaca
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Re: what are you reading? i've been trying to get my lazy ass around to reading The Call of Cthulhu, but i'm just way too lazy. i downloaded the audiobooks but mehhhh
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AWPJudy
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Re: what are you reading? reading some more pynchon as a break from rereading godel escher bach.
god i love that book though.
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Jomei
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Re: what are you reading? I've been reading ass-loads of stuff for school. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Almost all of W.B. Yeats' Poetry  Kindred by Octavia Butler The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos The Bridegroom: Stories by Ha Jin etc.
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skoolyardpunk
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Re: what are you reading? got back into reading words on pages a month ago or so.
Just finished Emily Dickinson is Dead, good book. Starting on A Day No Pigs Would Die.(recommended to me by an old high school english teacher)
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Orochi
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Re: what are you reading? Currently reading Catch-22 whenever I get the chance to. Pretty dense and hard to follow, but I'm still enjoying it a lot.
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Jomei
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Re: what are you reading? That's one of my very favorite books. 8D
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Jomei
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Re: what are you reading? Read Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian today. Typical of his stuff, I guess.
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Jomei
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Re: what are you reading? Am I the only one who reads?
Percival Everett - Erasure
Murakami Haruki - Hear the Wind Sing and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Reginald McKnight - He Sleeps
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Rick Lee
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Re: what are you reading? OMGOMGOMGOMG I'm reading the twilight books! OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN!!!!
nah, kidding, but I am reading the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, fucking amazing book.
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