The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

by Haruki Murakami

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0bazooka0 in What Are You Reading Now? : Do you read voluminous books? Will you recommend them? (Yesterday, 6:55pm)

... all of his books, they're all done in the contemporary "magical realism" style, but when you're starting out with Murakami, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a whole lot of book to swallow.

0bazooka0 in What Are You Reading Now? : Do you read voluminous books? Will you recommend them? (Yesterday, 5:02pm)

framboise, while I love The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, it's not a good Murakami to start on. I would suggest trying again with something like A Wild Sheep Chase, Murakami is far too good of an author to give up on.

framboise in What Are You Reading Now? : Do you read voluminous books? Will you recommend them? (Yesterday, 4:56pm)

The longest book I've ever read was The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami. The bulk of the book was enjoyable, otherwise I would've stopped reading around page 60 or so as is my custom, but I did not like the ending nor would I recommend it. I will not be reading Murakami again.

brochettes in 1001 Books to read before you die : brochettes is trying to read 1001 books before she dies- and hopes that she lives a very long life.. (Jul 24, 2008, 7:23pm)

... ky 96. Smilla’s Sense of Snow 97. The Secret History 98. Trainspotting 99. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 100. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 101. Memoirs of a Geisha 102. Sputnik Sweetheart 103. The Blind Assassin 104. Ignorance 105. Life of Pi 106. Middlesex 107. K ...

The_Kat_Cache in 50 Book Challenge : Kat's 50 Book Challenge for 2008 (Jul 24, 2008, 2:34pm)

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 1001: 9/20 Non-fiction: 4/20

twomoredays in What Are You Reading Now? : First Line Game Chapter 8 (Jul 14, 2008, 4:38pm)

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami I also love that book.

The_Kat_Cache in 1001 Books to read before you die : July 2008, Which book from the 1001 List are You Reading? (Jul 9, 2008, 1:38pm)

Still in the middle of Anna Karenina. Also in the middle of Lolita. Also have The Wind-up Bird Chronicle checked out from the library. But I haven't been reading much lately. Need to remedy that....

sebby in 50 Book Challenge : sebby, 2008 (Jul 6, 2008, 11:00am)

17) Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (610 pages) A wondrous disappointment. I just couldn't get over the writing style. Too much description. Too much heavy-handedness. And the story itself doesn't come together in a satisfying way. Okada is a great and sympathetic character ...

thekoolaidmom in Book Listers UNITE! : The EW 100 New Classics List (Jun 22, 2008, 1:39pm)

... Art Spiegelman (1986/1991) 8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996) 9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997) 10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997) 11. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997) 12. Blindness, José Saramago (1998) 13. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gib ...

HMOKeefe in Folio Society devotees : Which 'Complete works of ' would you like to see? (Jun 16, 2008, 5:04pm)

... He has a fairly large body of work now and I have been fairly impressed with all of it except Kafka on the Shore. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is one of the great treasures of contemporary literature.

VisibleGhost in The Green Dragon : How you use LT (Jun 13, 2008, 7:00pm)

... Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin * The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell * A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth * The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami * The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley * Fingersmith, Sarah Waters * The Giver, Lois Lowry * A C ...

sebby in 50 Book Challenge : sebby, 2008 (Jun 10, 2008, 6:51pm)

... Jr. (288 pages) My new favorite Vonnegut. Mother Night is funny, intelligent, entertaining satire. Next up is The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. So excited.

JackFrost in 50 Book Challenge : JackFrost's 2008 List (May 31, 2008, 6:24am)

... Murakami's stuff, so I might end up pulling one of my "get the shorter works out of the way" stunts before I try to tackle The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle like I'd planned.

JackFrost in 50 Book Challenge : JackFrost's 2008 List (May 29, 2008, 7:24am)

... two novels, but since my copy of Spiral hasn't shown up yet, I'm moving on to something else for a while. I'm thinking The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, since it's been staring me down from my bookshelf for months.

rissa in Hogwarts Express : Weird suggestions from the Unsuggester (May 28, 2008, 7:35pm)

um, mine has the HP paperback boxed set (books 1-6) also wind-up bird chronicles the notebook which I loved the eye of the world which I read, and all the rest of the series except the latest one webster's concise english dictionary some classics some theatre books and a lot of books ...

compskibook in Hogwarts Express : Weird suggestions from the Unsuggester (May 28, 2008, 7:31pm)

My number 4 was The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle which I was kind of thinking of adding to my list since some HE people raved about it. Maybe my biggest surprise was the Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-6)! Can Library Thing actually tell I would never buy a box set of an unfinished series?

emaestra in Book talk : Which book do you want to step into? (May 28, 2008, 5:44pm)

... Time-Traveler's Wife. Mostly I just want a husband that will win the lottery for me. I also wanted to see the inside of Wind Up Bird Chronicle. I really never had any desire to visit Japan until I read Murakami. He describes it so vividly that I really want to go now.

HMOKeefe in Folio Society devotees : Which books would you like to see as Folio volumes? (May 25, 2008, 4:38pm)

... did with Solitude. Also it would be nice to bring the collected works of Haruki Murakami into the FS mix starting with Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

shootingstarr7 in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - #2: May. 2008 (May 21, 2008, 6:26pm)

In celebration of my college graduation this coming weekend, today I bought The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, and Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. And I'm excited to read them all...

littlegeek in The Green Dragon : I've lost the currently reading thread - so here's number errr lots (May 7, 2008, 3:11pm)

I recently finished The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (a masterpiece) and The Well of Lost Plots (not a masterpiece, probably my least fav Fforde book so far). I bowed to pressure from the fangirlz on Hogwarts Express and am half way through Stephenie Meyer's Twilight. So far it is utter trash and ...

Marensr in Hogwarts Express : What is everyone reading at the moment? III (May 6, 2008, 10:17am)

Ooh I am so glad you liked The Wind Up Bird Chronicle LG. What did you like most? I loved the noirish tone but I also loved the references that made it feel it was part of some bigger spiritual or metaphysical world. I have a feeling he was using some Japanese folk tale type references that I ...

littlegeek in Hogwarts Express : What is everyone reading at the moment? III (May 6, 2008, 12:25am)

I finally finished The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. One of the best books I've read in years. Truly a masterpiece. I'm going to finish the book now. *sigh*

clong in 50 Book Challenge : clong's 50 book challenge for 2008 (May 3, 2008, 7:52am)

33. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - I can see why so many people like this book, but I was just a little disappointed. 34. Dinotopia: The World Beneath by James Gurney - My six year old son is really hooked on the Dinotopia books, which offer reasonably interesting stories ...

MrAndrew in Hogwarts Express : What is everyone reading at the moment? III (Apr 28, 2008, 12:53am)

... but Hard-boiled Wonderland kind of annoyed me. I wonder if perhaps I started with the wrong book. I would like to give The Wind Up Bird Chronicle a go sometime.

Marensr in Hogwarts Express : What is everyone reading at the moment? III (Apr 27, 2008, 11:05pm)

... Union but I haven't picked it up yet. It looked like an interesting premise. LG I am so glad you are enjoying The Wind Up Bird Chronicle.

littlegeek in Hogwarts Express : What is everyone reading at the moment? III (Apr 27, 2008, 4:29pm)

... Union and it was good. Not as good as Kavalier & Clay, but that one is hard to top. I haven' read The Book Thief. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is so good that I'm having a heck of a time tearing myself away to do things like read my Harry chapters, post online or knit. This book is ...

clong in 50 Book Challenge : clong's 50 book challenge for 2008 (Apr 26, 2008, 8:25am)

... in the Middle Pasture with my son and daughter. It was quite a bit better than book 3. I'm about halfway through The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and liking it a lot. I read the first 40 pages or so of the atrociously bad Norby, the Mixed-up Robot with my daughter, and gave up.

Marensr in Hogwarts Express : What is everyone reading at the moment? III (Apr 25, 2008, 10:42am)

... and Zuleika Dobson (The trains have been slow so I have had good enforced reading time as of late.) Oh and about The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. I liked it a lot it goes in strange directions but I really enjoyed it, incredibly atmospheric. I will be curious to hear what you think LG.

elbakerone in Hogwarts Express : What is everyone reading at the moment? III (Apr 23, 2008, 10:47am)

#273 - I've heard good things about The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle! Let us know if you go for that one. As to Guy Gavriel Kay (the GGK abbreviation took me a while, I'm still snoozy this morning), I've never read his stuff but people in and out of the GD have raved to me about Lions of Al-Rassa ...

littlegeek in Hogwarts Express : What is everyone reading at the moment? III (Apr 23, 2008, 10:37am)

... else in the world have a problem with GGK or is it only me? Everyone on GD seems to love him. I'm really attracted to The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. That may be the next one.

judylou in 50 Book Challenge : Judylou's at it again in 2008 (Apr 21, 2008, 1:33am)

Thanks for the messages everyone! 44. The WInd-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami Well, this was an interesting one. I found it hard going for a while (for quite a while) but I persisted and I'm glad I did. It is about a man whose wife leaves him. He struggles to find her and through ...

judylou in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 19 April 2008 (Apr 19, 2008, 12:58am)

Now listening to Black Dogs by Ian McEwan and still reading The WInd-Up Bird CHronicles and Notes from the Underground.

dcozy in Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction : Haruki Murakami: best and worst (Apr 18, 2008, 8:45pm)

Since I'm not sure what it is about The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle that you find less than good, it's hard to know whether, for you, it will get better. I'll just mention that, after having read a couple of Murakami's early works and based on my reaction to them, having decided that Murakami was not ...

Thalia in Book talk : What book are you struggling to get through? (Apr 18, 2008, 12:22pm)

I think you either love or dislike Murakami. The first book I read was The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and I was hooked. The one I loved best and that has stayed with me is Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. It's among my top ten favorite books. But I understand everybody who doesn't ...

vpfluke in Book talk : What book are you struggling to get through? (Apr 18, 2008, 11:28am)

I really liked Kafka on the shore and Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world, and I really did struggle with The Wind up bird chronicle.

blissfulwitch in Book talk : What book are you struggling to get through? (Apr 17, 2008, 7:39pm)

I adore Haruki Murakami, but The Wind up Bird Chronicles is not one of my favorites by him.

judylou in 1001 Books to read before you die : April 2008: What are you reading from the 1001 list (Apr 15, 2008, 3:27am)

Half way through Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles. I am struggling with it. I find that while actually reading it I am really enjoying it, but I don't look forward to picking it up. 300 pages in and determined to finish it, but hoping it will get better.

Marensr in Hogwarts Express : Kerian & LG's Adventure (Apr 14, 2008, 12:30pm)

... what is the next cuisine you must try . . . It is almost like being with you guys at dinner. LG I think you'll like The Windup Bird Chronicle noir and Japanese magical realism all in one. K I think you'll love Howl's Moving Castle Oh what fun you guys had! Okay when is the HE ...

littlegeek in The Green Dragon : April's New Books - did you get some?? (Apr 14, 2008, 12:19pm)

... shopping with fellow LT-er Kerian on Saturday and here's my haul: From Barnes & Noble I bought all grownup books: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon Killing Johnny Fry by Walter Mosley (How's THAT for eclectic?) Then we went to Bord ...

Thalia in 1001 Books to read before you die : The 1001 "I've Read That" chain game (Apr 13, 2008, 1:49pm)

Yep, I read Wind Up Bird Chronicles. How about The Story of O?

littlegeek in Hogwarts Express : Kerian & LG's Adventure (Apr 13, 2008, 1:46pm)

From Barnes & Noble I bought all grownup books: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon Killing Johnny Fry by Walter Mosley (How's THAT for eclectic?) Then we went to Borders and I just got a bunch of YA: Un Lun Dun by Chin Mievill The Th ...

emaestra in 1001 Books to read before you die : The 1001 "I've Read That" chain game (Apr 13, 2008, 12:46pm)

I have to jump in since I'm sure many have read Tale of Two Cities. How about Wind Up Bird Chronicle? (I know, this is my second Murakami to this game.)

judylou in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 12 April 2008 (Apr 12, 2008, 1:39am)

Trying hard to get into The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles but finding it hard going after almost 100 pages. I need some encouragement to keep going! Has anyone got some for me?

emaestra in Reading Globally : Best Translated Book (into English) You Read 2007 (Apr 8, 2008, 8:20pm)

... when poetry can be translated well. I fell in love with Haruki Murakami this past year. My favorite so far is The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, but I also really enjoyed Norwegian Wood and Sputnik Sweetheart.

Bleaker in Japanese Literature : What work(s) are you most likely to return to? (Mar 27, 2008, 3:12pm)

... : Genji Monogatari, Master of Go, Snow Country,Thousand Cranes, Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, Kokoro, The Three-Cornered World. There is something in each of these which lingered with me long after I put the ...

Thalia in What Are You Reading Now? : First Line Game Chapter 6 (Mar 22, 2008, 10:20am)

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami

teelgee in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - March. 2008 (Mar 21, 2008, 7:18pm)

... Tale by Diane Setterfield Good Harbor by Anita Diamant Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier Three Junes by Julia Glass and a Virago modern classic that shall go ...

emaestra in Book talk : What We Visualize (Mar 20, 2008, 9:16pm)

... notice of, except in your subconscious. I always have very graphic images while I'm reading. Not long ago, I read Wind Up Bird Chronicle, and it was as if I was in Tokyo in my head (in the bottom of a well even). Another I could see vividly was The Good Earth. It is as if I will be ...

Medellia12 in 50 Book Challenge : well..maybe 50 books? *stonecoldfox edition* (Mar 16, 2008, 12:48pm)

... author I think you might like. He seems to have a special appeal to the younger crowd. If you like longer books, try The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle or Kafka on the Shore. If you prefer shorter books, perhaps Norwegian Wood (it's not one of my favorite books, but it seems to be one of ...

hemlokgang in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 8 March 2008 (Mar 12, 2008, 7:38pm)

tatleriv- I find it difficult to compare Kafka On The Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. It almost feels as if they are by different authors, a sort of apples and oranges comparison. I think Murakami is a stunningly versatile writer.

LheaJLove in Book talk : Name authors that after youve red them first, you had the urge to read EVERYTHING they wrote. (Mar 12, 2008, 6:35pm)

... Nikki Giovanni's... Definitely after Farming of Bones, I wanted to read all of Edwidge Danticat's Now after The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle... I am pretty curious about the rest of Murakami After Middlesex, the rest of Eugenides

tatleriv in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 8 March 2008 (Mar 12, 2008, 4:13pm)

... I get to be a contrarian jerk: Kafka on the Shore is good, but in no way approaches the scope and philosophic force of Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I felt like Murakami was just trying to recapture the magic of his previous opus. There are some great bits in Kafka on the Shore, but I ...

zanix in What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five books read during 2007 (Mar 12, 2008, 3:21pm)

... making the selection process painful, even cheating I still left out some great books, however: 1. Anna Karenina 2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 3. A Farewell to Arms 4. Tess of the D'Urbervilles t5. The Painted Veil t5. Swann's Way Honorable Mention Atonement Les Mise ...

LheaJLove in 50 Book Challenge : Lhea's 100 for 2008 (Mar 11, 2008, 10:40pm)

1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Only blurred lines exist between public and private; wake and slumber; history and myth. Reality snakes between the extremities of our lives. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is complete. The characters are unique and well developed, the story ...

LheaJLove in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 8 March 2008 (Mar 11, 2008, 10:03pm)

I just finished Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle... It was my first of his I've read. I reckon I liked it enough to pick up Kafka on the Shore as well... Yes, I enjoyed it... I'm reading Ha Jin's The Crazed right now. I begain Waiting last week... but I believe I'll read Craz ...

LheaJLove in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - March. 2008 (Mar 6, 2008, 7:28pm)

Ah, two that I've been waiting to read: The Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami Waiting by Ha Jin

wonderlake in 50 Book Challenge : Wonderlake 50 @ 2008 (Mar 4, 2008, 12:16pm)

... *read 2. Waiting, Ha Jin 3. The Key, Junichiro Tanizaki 4. Autobiography of a Geisha, Sayo Masuda ~~5. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami~~ *read 6. Red Dust, Ma Jin 7. The Sailor Who fell From Grace w/ the Sea, Yukio Mishima 8. ~~Memoirs of a Ge ...~~

~~Smiley_Scorpio in Hogwarts Express : I Spy... (Feb 27, 2008, 9:35pm)~~

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ? no, i did not search your library

~~LizT in Book talk : There's a Time and a Place for Everything (Feb 25, 2008, 4:05pm)~~

~~... And totally deserted as well :-) Of course, I was reading such appropriate things as Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Bit too far east, but hey!~~

~~KinnicChick in 888 Challenge : KinnicChick's 888 Categories and Books (Feb 24, 2008, 9:04pm)~~

Seems I forgot to list my Around the World Category. VI. Around the World. ~~1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami~~ 2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini * 3. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez * 4. Family Matters by Rohinton Mist ...

~~tatleriv in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 February 2008 (Feb 21, 2008, 2:27pm)~~

@elvisettey (#123) - Have you read Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicle? That's one of my favorite reading experiences of all time. @Vonini (#99) - The library's all checked-out of Never Let Me Go, so I'm moving forward on Revolutionary Road. Next week, perhaps!

~~whymaggiemay in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - FEBRUARY 2008 (Feb 18, 2008, 10:42am)~~

... Into Nagasaki, The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War Kabul Beauty School The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles Guests of the Ayatollah and for free (from a 3 for the price of 2 table): The Things They Carried I also picked up Hiroshima Dia ...

~~KinnicChick in 888 Challenge : KinnicChick's 888 Categories and Books (Feb 12, 2008, 11:59pm)~~

... following: Leap!: What Will We Do With the Rest of Our Lives? by Sara Davidson Have You Found Her by Janice Erlbaum The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Life of Pi by Yann Martel Organize Your Life: Free Yourself From Clutter and Find More Personal Time by Ronni Eisenberg ...

~~zanix in 50 Book Challenge : Zero to 150 - 2008 (Feb 10, 2008, 2:06am)~~

@Margmagoo - I am decidedly a Murakami fan and if The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle isn't in my top 10 it is not far removed. I think the barrier between DeLillo and myself (not to mention other contemporary writers) is that having grown up between generations X and Y I'm already jaded to critiques ...

~~Margmagoo in 50 Book Challenge : Zero to 150 - 2008 (Feb 9, 2008, 12:31pm)~~

Murakami is a marvel! Try The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle if you'd like to see more of his talent. I admire your mix of clasic and current books, and look forward to what comes next month. White Noise has long legs, as they say in the publishing business. I think DeLillo is a master of ...

~~KinnicChick in Book talk : KinnicChick's 888 Categories and Books (Feb 9, 2008, 11:23am)~~

VI. Around the World 1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini * 3. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez * 4. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry * 5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 6. Like Water for Chocolate by L ...

~~Medellia12 in 50 Book Challenge : 3m3m's 80 books in '08 (Feb 8, 2008, 9:05am)~~

... thrown in with some Jungian symbolism, it may be the ticket for you. If not Hard-Boiled Wonderland, I recommend The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle or Kafka on the Shore. His longer novels are far superior to his shorter novels. I found The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle to be slow going in a lot ...

~~hastydevil in Hard-Boiled Wonderland : The Peter Cat Bar - The Introduce Yourself Thread (Feb 5, 2008, 2:20pm)~~

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is one of my best-loved books. Haruki Murakami writes like a dream. The book is very visual, sensual even, and it had a profound impact on me. I've just finished reading After Dark and I also love it. The two books I read from Murakami were translated by Jay Rubin. ...

~~mtehbob in Hard-Boiled Wonderland : The Peter Cat Bar - The Introduce Yourself Thread (Jan 28, 2008, 7:26am)~~

My name is Damian and the first Murakami book I read was The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle last year. I consider that novel the single greatest piece of literature I have ever read and it would be an understatement to say that it raised the bar for the way I look at novels. I have yet to read everything ...

~~calvarez in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 19 January 2008 (Jan 26, 2008, 2:52am)~~

... Grist Guide to Greening Your Day by the editors of Grist Magazine. I'm in the middle of Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, but am feeling the need for some change...so will probably pick up The Echo Maker by Richard Powers and Mary, Called Magdalene by Marga ...

~~Medellia12 in Someone explain it to me... : Haruki Murakami (Jan 25, 2008, 8:41pm)~~

... Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973. My favorite is Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, followed by The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. I prefer longer novels to shorter novels, though, and I will readily admit that his books often take a while to get ...

~~calvarez in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 19 January 2008 (Jan 20, 2008, 2:43am)~~

~~I just completed The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, which I had been meaning to read for some time. Next up: The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.~~

~~GreyHead in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 12 January 2008 (Jan 11, 2008, 7:58am)~~

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I read a good mixture this week: sex.com by Kieren McCarthy which is a book about a very messy legal case in in Californis; One ...
MissTris in Hard-Boiled Wonderland : The Peter Cat Bar - The Introduce Yourself Thread (Jan 7, 2008, 1:43am)
... I never tire of his writing either, although I will admit that some of the "weirder" books rub me the wrong way. I've read The Wind Up Bird Chronicle three times and it still creeps me out.
emaestra in What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five books read during 2007 (Jan 4, 2008, 4:24pm)
... couldn't get it down to five, but I came close. The first is definitely the best, after that they are in random order. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje What is the What by Dave Eggers Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi ...
raggedtig in What Are You Reading Now? : What I got for Christmas!!! (Dec 26, 2007, 1:24pm)
I loved The Monster at the End of This Book. Great stuff! LOL I got the following for Christmas: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Never Let Me Go The Mummy or Ramses the Damned Merrick The Vampire Armand Anne Rice is one of my completeists and I'm almost there. Yay!
raggedtig in 1001 Books to read before you die : Christmas Acquisitions (Dec 26, 2007, 1:11pm)
Off the list I got Never Let Me Go and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
raggedtig in Site talk : What we got for Christmas 2007 (Dec 25, 2007, 9:16am)
I got: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Never Let Me Go The Mummy or Ramses the Damned The Vampire Armand Merrick
Medellia12 in 50 Book Challenge : Ingrid's Challenge (Dec 22, 2007, 11:00pm)
... I know a lot of people who love it. My favorite is Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, closely followed by The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka On the Shore. If you like off-beat literature, I'd encourage you to give another one of his novels a try.
Zeesosa in What did YOU buy today? : What did YOU buy today? December 2007 edition (Dec 16, 2007, 11:20pm)
I purchased Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle both by Haruki Murakami.
wandering_star in Reading Resolutions : Reading Resolutions for 2008 (Dec 4, 2007, 9:01am)
... 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 journey and at the end, the woman behind me asked ...
d2vge in 1001 Books to read before you die : Top 5 from the list read in 2007 (Dec 2, 2007, 3:41pm)
Mine are: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Regeneration (actually, I loved the whole trilogy--this plus The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road, but I think the first one was my favourite.) The Wasp Factory The House on the Borderland--this one really annoyed me at times as I was reading, ...
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