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| Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction : Haruki Murakami: best and worst | | 70 | GotoTengo, July 11 |
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... potent blend of Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Simply incredible and worthy of the Pulitzer.
I also wrapped up After the Quake by Haruki Murakami. It's a collection of stories about people dealing (more psychological) with the after-effects, of a major earthquake. It's a good ... After the Quake, Adam Bede was out running After Dark, All Around Town trying to remember when life had been full of All Things Bright and Beautiful. #10 and #13, thank for the comments on Murakami...Tim has After the Quake and afka on the Shore so I will give one of them a go. I don't do magical realism though!! (Perhaps I should open my mind a crack).
... such a strange wonderful journey, that I didn't care. I'm now reading a slim volume of short stories by Murakami called After the Quake and it's pretty decent so far. ... Canning !
Next up: The Known World by Edward P. Jones. It's a Pulitzer winner from 2004. I also plan to squeeze in After the Quake by Haruki Murakami, it's a slim short story collection. My Murakami quest continues! Okay, we're up to number 132 today (and, of course, still reading):
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Marya: A Life by Joyce Carol Oates
Again, all from the 1001 Must Read list (our book group is reading Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Pier, one of my all-time ... All of the stories in After the Quake are good: Murakami is a pro, and he remains the best there is (though Paul Auster is a contender) at seamlessly blending the mundane and the uncanny. The stories I like the best are the ones that seem—I stress: seem—to owe the most to the simple ... Finished After The Quake by Murakami and greatly enjoyed this set of six stories. I have always been enthralled by other works of Murakami, but these stories were a delightful addition for me.
Nearly finished with Marya by Joyce Carol Oates and not sure if I would recommend it. Well ... Just finished Memento Mori by Muriel Spark (recommended) and into After the Quake by Haruki Murakami and some non-list books. ... and I'll be starting One Good Turn soon. Is the new book have anything to do with the last two?
From Half.com, used: After the Quake by Haruki Murakami. I'm slowly building a library of this incredible writer!
Bookmooch: The Wrong Kind of Blood byDeclan Hughes. A much lauded Iri ... ... solace of open spaces gretel ehlich
the solace of leaving early haven kimmel
after leaving mr mackenzie jean rhys
after the quake haruki murkami 15 After the Quake by Haruki Murakami. Loved these stories, almost as much as Norwegian Wood. Reviewed it so won't go on about it any more here! I am looking forward to hearing what you think of After The Quake - this for me was the best of his short story collections. In fact, after finishing it I turned straight back to the front and started reading it again. ... Seventy Seven
Celestial Harmonies
City of God
How the Dead Live
The Human Stain
The Blind Assassin
After the Quake
Small Remedies
Super-Cannes
House of Leaves
Blonde
Pastoralia
Timbuktu
The Romantics
Cryptonomicon
As If I Am Not There
Everythi ... ... and also enjoyed Kafka on the Shore very much. Since then I've read Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, After the Quake and South of the Border, West of the Sun. I also have most of his other translated books TBR! =D
... it was great. I've got a few others of his at home in the TBR (Kafka on the Shore, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and After the Quake). So I'm still in the process of becoming a fan, but I'm definitely headed that direction! ... Drabble
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell (hello, bargain books!),
and by Haruki Murakami,
After the Quake and Kafka on the Shore
I couldn't resist The Lace Reader after seeing the lot of you rave about it (and you all generally have good taste). And ... 27. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
  Latest review for After the Quake is up on LT and the blog:
http://50book2007.blogspot.com/
Cheers! Oooo - is this After The Quake by Murakami? I'm sure it is! ... Carter's The Bloody Chamber on LT. Read it, then bought an omnibus with three of Carter's novels, this one included.
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami: I left the apartment without a book (oh no!), and my husband decided he wanted to hang outside for a while after we ate. So I went ... ... Louise Stevenson
The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, and others by John Steinbeck
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Some longer reads, for a free day:
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Kokoro by Na ... Last few days: After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (pretty good, though I still like most of his novels better), and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin.
Today I'm starting The Famished Road by Ben Okri. #56: After the Quake by Haruki Murakami. I actually finished a book of short stories--unfortunately, it wasn't one of the many I already owned & needed to complete. :) I found these stories to be generally less enigmatic (and somewhat simpler) than the stories in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. ... ... to locate copies of those originally listed.
Rather than House of Stairs I'll be reading Little Brother
rather than After the Quake I'll be reading After Dark
(edited for touchstones - they really don't like me today so I removed them) ... able to locate copies originally listed.
Rather than House of Stairs I'll be reading Little Brother
rather than After the Quake I'll be reading After Dark ... Pirate Freedom). And that's not even mentioning the other books that I've had out from the library for a year and a day (After the Quake, The Turn of the Screw, and The Double) or The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which I never finished, not because I didn't like it but because such a big ... ... a Geisha
3. An Artist of the Floating World
4. Grotesque
5. After the Quake
6. Grass for His Pillow
7. Brilliance of the Moon
8. Kafka on the Shore Gave up on the audio version of after the quake by Haruki Murakami - just not my taste. That bad part is that this was highly recommended by a very good friend. I hate when that happens! She and I usually have very similar taste, but we all have our quirks. ... back when it was released as a serial and you had to wait a week for the next installment. Good stuff.
I abandoned after the quake - just not my style. I'll be starting Creepers on audio on the way home tonight. 20. after the quake by Haruki Murakami
I hesitate to include this one, because I only got about 3/4 of the way through before abandoning it. I have some friends who adore his stuff, but this really wasn't my taste. ... The War of the End of the World this week. Will start Stardust tonight for my bedside reading.
#138 How do u like After the Quake? I read it recently and found it more interesting than his other short story collection Blind Woman, Sleeping Willow. Working my way through The 19th Wife - only 300 pages to go! Also listening to after the quake on audio for my commute book. ... Hopefully, mine will be showing up soon.
Came home from the library with some new audiobooks for my commute:
after the quake by Haruki Murakami
Creepers by David Morrell I read a short story the other day, The Garden Party, to jumpstart my 1001 reading again. Finished after the quake today, and I just started Thursbitch, though that one is quite a slow read (despite only being 150 pages or so). ... ll-written.
Oh, and I started Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (not on the list, I know, but I also have After the Quake out from the library, to be read if I like the latter.) Seems okay so far, but then, I'm only a chapter or so in. ... to read, but at times, the dialogues all sound a bit too contrived, and the storytelling a bit telenovela-like.
18. After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murakami - very slim volume of 6 stories, completely unrelated except for the fact that the characters' lives have been in one way or ... ... Stephenson
The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
City of God by E.L. Doctorow for the 1% challenge
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami for the 1% challenge
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan for the 1% challenge Finally, my timing is on. I read After The Quake, didn't really do much for me though. A couple of the stories were okay.
I'll go with one of my favorite scifi authors, and a book well worth reading:
The Day of the Triffids
-- M1001 ... having any luck am I! I could have sworn it was on the list...
Sigh...stupid faulty memory. Ok...third time lucky. After The Quake by Haruki Murakami? ... The Corrections -- Jonathan Franzen
12) Choke -- Chuck Palahniuk
13) The Blind Assassin -- Margaret Atwood
14) after the quake: stories -- Haruki Murakami
15) Disgrace -- J. M. Coetzee
16) Amsterdam -- Ian McEwan
17) American Pastoral -- Philip Roth
18) The Virgin Suicides ... 95. Austenland by Shannon Hale
96. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami ... insight into contemporary Japanese culture I would recommend Norwegian Wood and some of his short story collections like After The Quake. For a bit of fun, try A Wild Sheep Chase.
The other Murakami, Ryu Murakami, is also a good entry point into contemporary Japanese fiction. The one ... ... : La Favorite (The Favorite)
3) Nosaka Akiyuki : La tombe des lucioles (Grave of the Fireflies)
4) Haruki Murakami : Après le tremblement de terre (After the Quake)
5) Fumiko Enchi : The Waiting Years
6) Masuji Ibuse : Black Rain
... and 1 book from China.
1) Dai Sijie : Balz ... ...
6. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
7. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
8. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Books that were replaced on the list
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Saturday by Ian McEwan ...
14) Dai Sijie : Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress)
15) Haruki Murakami : Après le tremblement de terre (After the Quake)
16) Yasunari Kawabata : Kyoto (The Old Capital)
17) Fumiko Enchi : The Waiting Years
18) Masuji Ibuse : Black Rain
1 ... ... Men, Women, and the World - Liza Mundy (NF); The Farthest Shore (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 3) - Ursula K. LeGuin (F); After the Quake: Stories - Haruki Murakami (F-SS). Also still continuing with Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason - Jessica Warner (NF); The Intellectu ... ... Shore (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 3) - Ursula K. LeGuin (F) and the rest of the series, which I now have from the library, After the Quake: Stories - Haruki Murakami (F-SS), Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) - Stephanie Meyer (F). I'll be starting After the Quake by Haruki Murakami either today or tomorrow. I really loved After Dark, so I've made it my goal for 2008 to explore more of his writing. ... (short fiction) (a re-read)
(6) For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories - Nathan Englander (short fiction)
(7) After the Quake: Stories – Haruki Murakami (short fiction)
(8) Blow-Up and Other Stories – Julio Cortazar (short fiction)
This space used to contain the full category list, but there got to be too many touchstones, so I've broken them out into individual entries below and decided to delete this one. ... it may not be. Sometimes authors write books with similar sounding titles. For example, Haruki Murakami has both After the Quake and After Dark.
Does anyone know anything about this one? ... decided yet which Murakami books you're going to go for?
He's one of my favourite authors, and my favourites are After the Quake (a small book of short stories), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and The Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (I was once reading this on a coach ... OCTOBER
33. after the quake, by Haruki Murakami
Another worthwhile read from Murakami! The common thread in the stories in this collection is the Kobe earthquake, but in each, the characters are deeply touched by the event in different ways. While I enjoy his novels more than his short ... "Nah," Yoshiya said.
- All God's Children Can Dance, from after the quake by Haruki Murakami
... Dance Dance Dance just as well! It's currently my favorite Haruki Murakami book.
Speaking of whom, I started After the Quake this afternoon for my lunch break reading. I read the first story (UFO in Kushiro) and already I'm hooked by Murakami's haunting tone.
I finished Haruki Murakami's short story collection After the Quake yesterday and just finished Yasunari Kawabata's "The Old Capital" a few minutes ago. Both very good. 15) Haruki Murakami: Après le tremblement de terre
(After the Quake)
****
I finished this a while ago but due to my move to Colorado (omg, graduate school!) I've been without internet to post. I've also been without time to read so the book I'm reading right now is a short one as well. A ... I just moved to Colorado (graduate school, omg!) so I'm still on my book. While moving though, I did get to finish After the Quake by Haruki Murakami and will have to post a review soon. I have been without internet for a week and half so it has been hard to keep in touch.
So yes, halfway ... ... it in English. XD
I'm still on my book so don't choose for me quite yet. While moving though, I did get to finish After the Quake by Haruki Murakami and will have to post a review soon. I have been without internet for a week and half so it has been hard to keep in touch.
So ... Received as an advance birthday gift from a friend: After the Quake by Haruki Murakami.
Yesterday, received as an advance birthday gift from a friend: After the Quake, by Haruki Murakami.
>266 Oooh, would be really interested to hear your thoughts on After the Quake, it's one I've been wondering about reading! ... 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). In Japan:
Huraki Murakami's After The Quake which is a collection of stories that touch that sense of modern anomie and alienation that any city dweller in today's world has experienced...we are all on the same planet, connected and trying to survive with meaning and connectiveness. Huraki Murakami's After The Quake which is a collection of stories that touch that sense of modern anomie and alienation that any city dweller in today's world has experienced...we are all on the same planet, connected and trying to survive with meaning and connectiveness. Taken at the Flood: Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie
After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murukami
Monsoon by Wilbur Smith
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
... probably suggest Sputnik Sweetheart which I enjoyed but is pretty much Murakami-by-numbers. I wasn't bowled over by after the quake either if I am honest.
Although, it must be said that a less-than-wonderful Murakami novel is usually miles better than other writers at their best. ... the Shore which I liked a lot (guess that one should have tipped me off). I've also recently read Dance Dance Dance and After the Quake, Stories.
I hope you enjoy Nightwood. It's a wonderful book, one I should probably reread soon. ... America: Philip Roth -American Pastoral
South America: Jorge L. Borges -Labyrinths
Asia: Haruki Murakami -After THe Quake
Europe:Milan Kundera-The Unbearable Lightness of Being ... Related Fiction.
Tell us the author and title, and maybe a comment or review about it.
I just finished:
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
I'm really enjoying reading his books! I'm so glad I found him through everyone here. Thanks!
... whole thing made her go grey overnight, unable to play the piano, and changed the direction of her life.
I'm reading After the quake and while the first story-UFO in Kushiro threw me off, as it's seemed shorter than a short story should be, and a snippet, Banana Yoshimoto style but ... ... - (being a sequel to Wild Sheep Chase) - the best written and most engaging.
Opinicus: I would recommend finishing the After the Quake stories. Though not all brilliant, there are gems. I particularly like the one about the fire on the beach, although I cannot for the life of me think of ... ... Murakami through Norwegian Wood which 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 ... 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.
I've just started Murakami's After the Quake. I need a Murakami fix after a few months away and I was in the mood for some short stories too.
I have acopy of After the Quake by Murakami...did you read it?
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