The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
I also love that book.
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....
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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.
... 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 ...
... Jr. (288 pages)
My new favorite Vonnegut. Mother Night is funny, intelligent, entertaining satire.
Next up is The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. So excited.
... 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.
... 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.
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 ...
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?
... 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.
... 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
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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*
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 ...
... 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.
... 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.
... 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 ...
... 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.
... 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.
#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 ...
... 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.
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 ...
Now listening to Black Dogs by Ian McEwan and still reading The WInd-Up Bird CHronicles and Notes from the Underground.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
I adore Haruki Murakami, but The Wind up Bird Chronicles is not one of my favorites by him.
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.
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Yep, I read Wind Up Bird Chronicles.
How about The Story of O?
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 ...
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.)
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?
... 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.
... : 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 ...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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.
... 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
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ah, two that I've been waiting to read:
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami
Waiting by Ha Jin
... *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 ...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ?
no, i did not search your library
... 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!
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 Marque ...
@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!
... 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 ...
... 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
...
@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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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.
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