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MrkJulio
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Just got reading, Jonathan Livingston Seagull. It was interested. I didn't like that they make something known as perfection. Or trying to achieve it. It was interesting overall. I will be reading some other book next. Don't know the name of it at the moment. But i has it 
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Jomei
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I finished Murakami's Underground, the English version of his non-fiction book about the sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway. Pretty interesting stuff.
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Aplaca
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In the middle of Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I just can't seem to finish it 
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terra
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Joined: Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:23 am Posts: 2624 Location: under the sun
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Just read [i]The Namesake[/i] and [i]Unaccustomed Earth[/i], both by Jhumpa Lahiri. One is a novel about a Bengali family and the immigrant experience in the US, and the other is some short stories... also about Bengali families and the immigrant experience. Pretty interesting, but it definitely feels like the author only has one type of story to tell. Some of the short stories also felt a bit pointless.
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yaro
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Joined: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:37 pm Posts: 248 Location: Minneapolis area
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[quote="Aplaca"]In the middle of Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I just can't seem to finish it  [/quote] I'm also reading this right now, along with a biography of Benjamin Franklin for fun.
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MrkJulio
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Chi's sweet home Volume 2
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GoldenRhino
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Joined: Fri Sep 30, 2005 12:20 am Posts: 5745 Location: vancouver
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In order of priority: [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41kfe8FkEwL._SL500_AA300_.jpg[/img] [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41t0NvTS1eL._SS500_.jpg[/img] [img]http://bookcoverarchive.com/images/books/confessions_of_a_mask.large.jpg[/img] [img]http://pinstripebindi.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything.jpg[/img]
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ThinlineTele
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Joined: Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:44 am Posts: 1925 Location: Atlanta
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Yukio Mishima is great. I haven't read that one, but Kinkakuji is absolutely fantastic and The Sound of Waves is a less complex but very well-told story.
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GoldenRhino
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Joined: Fri Sep 30, 2005 12:20 am Posts: 5745 Location: vancouver
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[quote="ThinlineTele"]Yukio Mishima is great. I haven't read that one, but Kinkakuji is absolutely fantastic and The Sound of Waves is a less complex but very well-told story.[/quote]
I've had a few experiences with Mishima (Patriotism, The Sound of Waves, and an excerpt from Confessions of a Mask), and one experience with Murakami (A Wild Sheep Chase).
I enjoyed what I liked of both, but Mishima has this certain style...very articulate and detailed. Maybe a little "dry," but in a good way. We'll see where this takes me, I'm enjoying it a lot. I think Murakami was a little too surreal for me.
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pokemon master
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Joined: Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:00 pm Posts: 947 Location: San Francisco
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[quote="Aplaca"]In the middle of Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I just can't seem to finish it  [/quote] Wind up bird is an awesome novel. Yea its super drawn out and a bit disjointed given its multitudes of side stories but it's really fantastic. Have you checked out his other novels? I'm still diggin Norwegian Wood a lot.
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Aplaca
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I read Norwegian Wood a couple months ago.
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Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:43 pm |
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Jomei
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Let us not forget that Mishima was a rightist [i]okama[/i] who became an hero.
I'm pretty much out of Murakami to read. I finished his memoir of sorts, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, the other day. I recommend it to Murakami fans and runners (maybe writers), I guess.
But I also read Richard Brautigan's Dreaming of Babylon and fucking loved it. Now I'm in the mood for some straight up hard-boiled detective stuff, so I might look into some Raymond Chandler.
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terra
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Joined: Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:23 am Posts: 2624 Location: under the sun
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[quote="Jomei"]But I also read Richard Brautigan's Dreaming of Babylon and fucking loved it. Now I'm in the mood for some straight up hard-boiled detective stuff, so I might look into some Raymond Chandler.[/quote]
Check out [i]Motherless Brooklyn[/i] for more detective fun. I'm in the middle of it but it's engrossing so far.
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Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:49 pm |
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MrkJulio
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Running From Safety, Richard Bach.
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Utsuseru
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Joined: Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:22 pm Posts: 1583 Location: San Diego
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[quote="MrkJulio"]Running From Safety, Richard Bach.[/quote]
I really liked Illusions when I read it last year.
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