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| Dormant: Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction : Reading Group--Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto | | 83 | RobinsonP, April 2007 |
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If you're not sure about trying Murakami's novels, mixtmarshall, sample some of this author's writing in The Elephant Vanishes, one of my favorite books of short stories. ... a TAKS test today) and stopped in at Half-Price Books. I got Half a Life and Sweet Hereafter in hardback, as well as The Elephant Vanishes and Club Dumas. I also ordered five from Amazon and am expecting one ordered last week. Obsession, anyone?
Edited to TRY to fix touchstones. ... 5 stars yet this year, the closest is Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.
I did, however, give Haruki Murakami's The Elephant Vanishes short story collection full marks, and Raymond Carver's personal selection of his stories Where I'm Calling From, which I started last year and ... #27
I loved The Elephant Vanishes too. Haruki Murakami's stature as a writer increases for me with each book of his I read. ... 2/3 of the way through Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco and have a couple of stories left in Haruki Murakami's The Elephant Vanishes. I listen to unabridged audiobooks and have reached disc 10 of 18 in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas The smallest room has Charlie Brooker's Sc ... ... more satisfying and transcendent. I guess I'm trying to lower your expectations so that you enjoy more than I did!
Loved Elephant Vanishes and the non-fiction novel he did about the terrorist attacks on the Japanese subway system (Underground), however. #131 & #133: Murakami is also one of my favorites! I have a copy of The Elephant Vanishes too, but it's still in my TBR pile as of now. =) Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ... reading the copy of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw I acquired whilst in Rome.
My short story collection is The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami. I'm also indulging in something Italian, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.
I'm also continuing with The Elephant Vanishes and Screen Burn and will probably finish my audiobook ofThe Road on my way home from the office this evening.
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I simply loved The Elephant Vanishes. It took me forever to finish that book because I never wanted to finish reading his stores. I always wanted there to be more that I could read. When I was done, my college-age daughter quickly appropriated my book. That book (along with the ... ... and the two books in post 20 and have now moved onto my first collection by the Japanese master Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes. On the basis of the first couple of stories, which I read last night, his shorter fiction is up to the very high standards of his novels.
I've just started my first collection of Haruki Murakami's short stories, The Elephant Vanishes. Started two books in the last 24 hours:
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami - my first collection of short stories by the Japanese master and, based on the two I have read so far, as wonderfully surreal and sweet as his novels. Give this man the Nobel Prize now! I chose this thanks ... ... Dark), for fear of finishing everything he's written. I do own copies of Hard-Boiled Wonderland, Norwegian Wood, and The Elephant Vanishes though. --> 81
...and my favorite stories from The Elephant Vanishes are “The Window", "The Family Affair" and "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One April Morning". ... Murakami. Did you know that today is his 59th birthday?! My favorite book of his is a collection of short stories called The Elephant Vanishes. My daughter appropriated my copy of that book! :-(
I've also read Kitchen and liked it a lot. ... Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
29. Joe College by Tom Perrotta
30. The Worry Cure by Robert Leahy
31. The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
32. The Phonological Structure of Words by Colin J. Ewen and Harry van der Hulst
33. Straight Man by Richard Russo
34 ... ... International Book Fair:
M is for Magic, by Neil Gaiman
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
The Elephant Vanishes, by Haruki Murakami
... International Book Fair:
M is for Magic, by Neil Gaiman
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
The Elephant Vanishes, by Haruki Murakami
... in The Lottery.
Haruki Murakami has a few collections of short stories including After the Quake : stories and The Elephant Vanishes.
So that gives you an Argentinian author, an American and a Japanese author. Good variety. :) Disappointed at the sight of the empty Elephant cage, I left that nameless Japanese city because of an Awful Mess on Via Merulana. ... period in my life. I've read all of his books, except for Dance Dance Dance, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman and The Elephant Vanishes.
BTW, the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, near the UC Berkeley campus, will be featuring a play based on After the Quake this fall (Oct 12 to Nov 25). Right now I'm halfway through The Elephant Vanishes. Next up on the fiction front are:
Yasunari Kawabata, The Old Capital (the touchstone link with that phrase gives me a book on Korean history...)
William Gaddis, JR
Vergil, The Aeneid
Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil
Carlo Levi, C ... ... by William Shakespeare
The Cradle Will Fall by Mary Higgins Clark
We All Die Alone by Mark Newgarden
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami I have read about 75% of his works. I must say I like The Elephant Vanishes the most. It has the insomniac, Anna Karenina-reading woman right? I love that short story.
Sputnik Sweetheart? I'm not so crazy about that one. ... and Kafka on the Shore I just finished A Wild Sheep Chase last night, I don't know how I feel about it yet!
I liked the elephant vanishes the least, but I still liked it. ... and Kafka on the Shore I just finished A Wild Sheep Chase last night, I don't know how I feel about it yet!
I liked the elephant vanishes the least, but I still liked it. ... for me as well, but i let it fall into the surreal thinking part of my brain, instead of the literal. as i write this, the elephant vanishes is waiting for me to finish it off; shouldn't be more than another hour or so. i am incredibly impressed with his writing, and plan to work my way ... Haven't read Ryu Murakami...want to, though. Can't wait to hear what you think of the short stories in The Elephant Vanishes.
By the way, are Yoshimoto's novels more memorable than her short stories?
Why do you think reading Yoshimoto is so popular in Japan?
... by reading some of his short stories. They'll give you a taste of how he writes. My favorite book of short stories is The Elephant Vanishes. Some of his longer novels (The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore) tend to be a bit surrealistic. I like that kind of writing, but not ... ... while he was driving our family to the beach this past summer.
My favorite short story is also from the same book, The Elephant Vanishes. It is "A Family Affair".
My daughter's favorite short story is *also* from that same book. It's the story entitled "The Green Monster".
It's ... "100% Perfect Girl" by Haruki Murakami from The Elephant Vanishes. "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" by Jonathan Safran Foer from the Best American Non-Required Reading 2003. Lorrie Moore and Margaret Atwood have plenty, but I can't seem pick any one in particular. My favorite book is The Elephant Vanishes. There are some *great* short stories in there. My daughter took my copy of this book for her permanent collection. Her favorite story was "The Little Green Monster". Mine was "A Family Affair".
I got hooked on this author after reading The Wind-up ... ... book.
Norwegian Wood is probably an easier entry point for most people. Also an excellent book.
I was floored by the elephant vanishes. The scope of his writing really impressed me. I felt that some stories could called realist while others were clearly unreal. ... remains my favourite till today. I liked Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman and after the quake but didn't care much for The Elephant Vanishes. I liked Kafka on the Shore but I thought the second-half of the book dragged on far far too longer than it should have.
I actually have all his ... ... remains my favourite till today. I liked Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman and after the quake but didn't care much for The Elephant Vanishes. I liked Kafka on the Shore but I thought the second-half of the book dragged on far far too longer than it should have.
I actually have all his ... ... send it to the next in line. I can give you more information about BookCrossing if you'd like. The second book I had was The Elephant Vanishes and my daughter appropriated it for her permanent collection even before I finished it!!! I really loved some of the shorts stories in that ... ... for 2 years and has been to 22 different readers!
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/1416369
My daughter appropriated The Elephant Vanishes, the last Murakami book I finished, for her own personal collection. Sorry...
Shortly, I will begin another Murakami book called Kafka on the Shor ... hippietrail, I just finished reading The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami. I had been reading these stories over a long period of time and decided to read the last two stories today as my daughter wants to keep this book. Which stories did you like best?
"The Little Green Monster" is ... I'm 2/3 or so the way through Murakami's short sotries, After the Quake. Not as good as The Elephant Vanishes.
on Murakami, I enjoyed immensely The Elephant Vanishes but I'm finding After the Quake less exciting.
The freshest, most imaginitive, most original short stories I've read in years though were Victor Pelevin's The Blue Lantern.
Anyone up for some great short stories?
Try some of these books:
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami (Japan)
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (Thai) ... and, no, these stories are *not* about prostitutes, sex, or ...
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