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Loading... Hardboiled 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. This is my favorite Murakami with Kafka on the Shore running a close second. While reading this book, I felt my brain was being rewired with the purpose of allowing me to accompany the narrator on his journey, which has tangents to Alice's. The only other author that has this effect on me is Philip K. Dick. I'm not a fan of magical realism, and I don't go out of my way to read science fiction, but Murakami takes something from each and creates something entirely new. I didn't want to leave this book. (  ) AlexAustin | Dec 28, 2009 |  First Murakami I've read although my teenagers are very keen. I took around 50 pages to warm to him and get into the world he'd created and ended up thoroughly enjoying the book, finding it moving, comic, imaginative and original. Looks like future Murakamis coming into stock are going to do a detour via my reading pile before going into the shop! (  ) Skyehighmileage | Dec 9, 2009 | This book is one of my favourite books by Murakami. The "end of the world" is described so powerfull that I actually had a feeling I was there. It made me feel anxious, sad and melancholic in some way. His imagination is incredible, both plots in the book are absolutely wonderful and amazingly interesting but on the other hand really weird. I think that's why I loved the book so much. Only Murakami can mix so much different elements in one book and make it a piece of art. ( ) 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 |  no reviews | add a review
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