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Loading... Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki MurakamiSeries: 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド (下), 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド (上)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  marta2303 | Sep 14, 2009 |  A fantastic cyberpunk fantasy. The book is divided in two plots: one is the story of a kind of "programmer", someone who can get external data inside his brain and shuffle it (like an encryption), who gets involved with a crazy scientist and his experiments; the other one is the story of a guy that arrives at a strange walled town and tries to understand how it works and why he is there (he can't remember anything before his arrival). Of course the stories are intertwined, and discovering that is one of the good parts of reading this one. Haruki Murakami shows all the creativity and depth of his work one more time. (  ) thiagop | Aug 23, 2009 | This one has two stories running simultaneously, each puts the main character in mysterious circumstances, yet the similarity seems to end here. Murakami's recurring theme of water gives a hint about what is going on, but as always, you have to think and think again. There is a sense of deep sadness that runs throughout this novel. On one side it is a quiet desperation, the other it is more frantic but in both a sense that something must be done and that there is a limited time in which to do it or something really bad will happen. You have to read it to find out. (  ) joyharmon | Aug 19, 2009 | Not my favorite Murakami book. Most Murakami books have a realistic air about them yet are very strange. The storyline in this book is just plain strange and I never bought into it. ( ) PapaDubs | Aug 3, 2009 | between this, kafka and wind up bird, my favourites ( ) chooch74 | Jul 8, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0679743464, Paperback)Japan's most widely-read and controversial writer, author of A Wild Sheep Chase, hurtles into the consciousness of the West with this narrative about a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters--not to mention Bob Dylan and Lauren Bacall.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:11 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Only Murakami can mix so much different elements in one book and make it a piece of art. (