... and I've loved the discussions on it already.
I love Murakami, some better than others. But the one that I love best is Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood.
Has anyone read Shantaram by Gregory Roberts? A huge tome, but I really enjoyed this book. It gave me a very different insight ...
#109 cameling
Is Kafka on the Shore by Murakami? If I decide to try it--do I need to read Kafka first? I know about Kafka but I have never actually read him! Franz Kafka is on my "to buy" list but I haven't decided which one yet.
>100: Leuntje, I love, love, love Kafka on the Shore and I'm sure you're going to enjoy this book.
I'm really bummed because I'm halfway through Amuse Bouche and really enjoying the book when I discovered that about 15 pages are missing from the book!! Seriously .. I wonder if the person I ...
Finished the tin drum, as mentioned in message 8. I'm currently reading Kafka on the shore - Murakami.
Kafka on the shore - Murakami.
... - Saramago (LT recommendation - thanks guys, had never heard of it before, which is a bit ignorant I know!)
- Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
- Sputnik Sweetheart - Murakami
... Sputnik Sweetheart which I enjoyed though not as much as Wind Up Bird and Steppenwolf Theatre is doing an adaptation of Kafka on the Shore so I have considered reading it but was told it is more disturbing that some of his other work.
I think you are right LG he has a better balance that ...
... Costello
London Orbital
Family Matters
Fingersmith
The Double
Everything is Illuminated
Unless
Kafka on the Shore
The Story of Lucy Gault
That They May Face the Rising Sun
In the Forest
Shroud
Middlesex
Youth
Dead Air
Nowhere Man
The Book of ...
129: Jacey25, I absolutely loved Kafka on the Shore. That book got me hooked to read more Murakami novels.
I'm enjoying Animal Dreams and but I've discovered that I should really move my reading chair back to the living room because where I have it positioned now in my little upstairs ...
... Anybody out there? which made me cry 'cause I'm a sap as well as Happiness Sold seperately. Now I'm into Fangland and Kafka on the shore and I suspect I will like the second the most. I picked up After Dark by Haruki Murakami in the train station the other day and was hooked. The Host ...
#189: Yeah, I read Kafka on the Shore earlier this year, and enjoyed it greatly. I haven't read After Dark, though. Although I haven't gotten very far yet, in Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the end of the World it seems like a very good read.
... in love after reading Sputnik Sweetheart, which was lent to me by a friend (I later got my own copy), 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 ...
I own both After Dark and Kafka on the Shore, but I haven't yet read them. I started my Murakami love affair with Norwegian Wood, then fell completely in love with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I also really liked Sputnik Sweetheart and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. F ...
... was my first Murakami, and I read it last month. I thought 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!
... I've read. There's been so many books I haven't even heard of that I'd almost given up playing the game. Has anyone read Kafka on the Shore?
50) Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami--Well, I liked the ending anyway. I've never read a book with such aggravating dialogue, although that could have been the translator's fault. And the Eichmann/Napoleon's Russian Campaign/Beethoven for Dummies digressions really got on my nerves. Of ...
So over the past couple of months I have read several things and a few of them were on the list here...
I read Kafka on the Shore and found it far more readable than the first Murakami I attempted (The Wind-up Bird Chronicle).
I read The Magician's Assistant and loved it completely. I ...
Finished Kafka on the Shore and starting Never Let Me Go.
#17 Kafka on the Shore
Well, I am only at #17 and am certainly behind. I've omitted several re-reads to the list as I re-read them every year when I teach them. So, maybe I'll make the 75 goal--whether I do or do not doesn't matter because I am enjoying the challenge and reading about 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 the rest, well, they ...
... time! I love the book and teaching it. I also recommend his book of essays A sense of the mysterious. I just started Kafka on the Shore. I liked Wind-Up Bird by Murakami and a friend who is a huge fan of his work said this is his best. I'm trying to get in as many books on my shelf ...
... Jeanette Winterson 6/08
15- Oryx and Crake-- Margaret Atwood 7/08
16- Housekeeping -- Marlilynne Robinson 8/08
17-- Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakamo
18- All the Kings Men -_Robert Penn Warren9 8/08
19- The Great Gatsby-- Fitzgerald 8/08
20- Of Mice and Men--Steinbeck8/08
21- ...
... Geisha
102. Sputnik Sweetheart
103. The Blind Assassin
104. Ignorance
105. Life of Pi
106. Middlesex
107. Kafka on the Shore
108. Unless
109. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
110. On Beauty
111. Never Let Me Go
46. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - i didn't have much expectations about this book, and didn't think it would be entertaining knowing that it dealt with some disturbing themes. However, i did enjoy the quick read. It is fast-paced, has some unforgettable characters, and intersperses ...
Could it be Kafka on the Shore?
Finished The Magician's Assistant Saturday and began Kafka on the Shore yesterday. My second read from Murakami and enjoying it immensely.
(LOVED my first Ann Patchett read, btw.)
Editing to add, will be reading an Ian McEwan novel in the course of my 888 challenge myself. With all of ...
30. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. I really enjoyed reading it, but it's going to take me a while to figure out what i just read.
It's interesting that some find Kafka on the Shore difficult to get into. I loved the novel for its first 100 pages, which I found deeply intriguing and very engaging as well as satisfying imaginative. However by the end I was bored of all this style without substance; it felt like a film made of ...
... go to birthday parties and to sleep. This is only the second time I've read anything by Murakami that I couldn't put down. Kafka on the Shore took me months, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman took me months, and even Sputnik Sweetheart took me longer than this. Only Hear the Wind Sing did I ...
... same lines, mint910, I wish the accts that are inactive or on vacation would not be listed. It's infuriating that Kafka on the Shore supposedly has 1 copy available, but that copy is listed by someone who hasn't been on in nearly a year (and many, many others). It irritated me enough ...
... about Haruki Murakami? 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.
... the last tonight, and I'm planning to power through as much of the other library books as possible. Sadly, I just started Kafka on the Shore too, but will clearly not be able to finish it before Tuesday, given the other books in progress and my need to, say, finish packing. Alas. I'll just ...
...
5. After the Quake
6. Grass for His Pillow
7. Brilliance of the Moon
8. Kafka on the Shore
27. Kafka On The Shore - Haruki Murakami
Well, thanks to Medellia for recommending this guy a very long time ago. I really enjoyed this book. I'll definitely be re-reading it someday because it seems like the kind of book that delivers something new every time you read it. I loved all the ...
... I got the book, it smells a bit like cloves and other sweet spices... neat, eh?
planned to buy from Waldenbooks:
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Middlemarch by George Eliot
if I get away with just those two, I will be shocked!
Just finished Kafka on the Shore the other day. I'm not sure how I feel about it beyond the fact that I enjoyed it. Once I have time (probably six months from now, at least) I'd like to reread it. It's a fairly tight story, but towards the end I'd begun to scratch my head a bit. It's certainly ...
#25: Kafka on the Shore, finally.
This is going to warrant a reread at some point in the not-too-distant future. Perhaps in early 2009.
#24: New Moon
I swear, and I mean it this time, that I'm not reading anything else until I finish Kafka on the Shore. That includes the copy of Eclipse that I have sitting around waiting for me.
The Cullens will have to wait a few more days.
Going on to K
Kafka on the shore was an interesting if not puzzling read.
... by the lack of tone changes in the characters, as I found the tales so enthralling.
Now, this past year, I did read Kafka on the Shore and there are significant tone changes in the characters in this novel.
... list, but the ones I'm most looking forward to are:
~ books 2-5 of the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
~ Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
~ the Solider Son Trilogy by Robin Hobb
~ several volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series
~ any BtVS ...
... schitterend gebrek
22 Vindens skygge Carlos Ruiz Zafón La sombra del viento
23 Kafka på stranden Haruki Murakami Umibe no Kafuka
24 Alt blir klart og betydelig Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated
25 "Svøp" John Banville Shroud
26 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Mi ...
20) Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
This was the first time I've read anyting by Murakami, and I was at first not sure if I liked the way he writes. It grew on me though, and I learned to apreciate it. This was quite a bizarre story! I haven't quite figured it out yet, not wrapped my ...
... I'm with ya, I won't spend the extra point for the internat'l mooch. Right now there is a book available on my list, Kafka On the Shore, that is in Czech Republic... the acct is also possibly inactive. I figure, as big as my TBR stack is, I can wait for it to come up domestically.
#33 ...
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 also like Murakami, but the first one I read, was Kafka on the Shore. At first it was confusing and I wasn't sure where he was headed with it but by the time I got to the middle of the book I couldn't put it down. He has a fantastic web site. Take the time to check it out before you quit on ...
... Lynchian, I could even see how he would stage this all in deep red and that bizarre scene with the man watching Eri sleep. Kafka on the Shore is still my favourite one, but then again, i haven't read a few, so will wait until I read them all to tell which one I liked most.
... YA is accessible to everyone. That's the way it should be, at least.
I'm thinking of picking up where I left off with Kafka on the Shore as well as starting the next Boogiepop Novel: Boogiepop Returns: Vs. Imaginator Part 1. I can alternate between them. I've got a lot of free time ...
... released in quite a while and they're starting up again this late summer. After that, I think I'm going to finally finish Kafka on the Shore.
I finished Water for Elephants today, and just startet Kafka on the Shore.
... Fumiko's Masks; Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's Seven Japanese Tales; Murakami Haruki's After Dark, Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood; Dazai Osamu's The Setting Sun and probably Mishima Yukio's Confessions of a Mask.
I finished Sputnik sweetheart which I enjoyed. I think I liked this book better than Kafka on the shore - I enjoyed the writing and the story line better.
I also finished Amesterdam by Ian McEwan and I also really enjoyed this book - what delicious themes but I am not sure how I felt ...
In no particular order:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami
A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cuentos Completos I by Julio Cortazar
... Literature, I have many, many fiction books I have loved. Among them are the following read in the last 3 years:
Kafka On the Shore, this is my first Murakami book, but will certainly not be my last. Not wanting to give away too much, I can say that the Kafka of the title has several ...
... 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 text down. I wonder will I, now ...
... following are the ones mentioned more than once:
FOUR
Atonement by Ian McEwan
THREE
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
TWO
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Gor ...
... yet what I'm going to read next at home as I have a few books waiting for me that I'm pretty excited about. Thinking about Kafka on the shore, The world according to Garp or maybe Anansi Boys. *sigh* Decisions, decisions... :)
Apparently 5,000 other LibraryThingers have Sophie's World ... so I'll see what all the buzz is about.
Still reading Kafka on the Shore and The Satanic Verses
... 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 everyone else's!) or Hard-Boiled Wo ...
... you die
1. Birdsong FINISHED
2. Disgrace FINISHED
3. The black dahlia FINISHED
4. The virgin suicides
5. Kafka on the shore
6. Cloud Atlas
7. American psycho
8. Never let me go
... will be my long term projects...
Other than that, I'm currently working on
a. Ha Jin's Waiting
b. Murakami's Kafka on the Shore
c. Coelho's The Alchemist
d. and I might pick The Known World back up one of these days
#123: LheaJLove > I too loved Kafka on the Shore! I hope you enjoy it.
#142: hemlokgang > I agree about Murakami being a stunningly versatile writer. I find it difficult to compare his works and I feel that his different works can agree with different tastes.
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 (#123):
Here's where 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 ...
#123
Go for it on Kafka on the Shore. You won't regret it.
LheaJLove.......Kafka on the Shore was one of my favorite reads of 2007. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
... 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 Crazed first.
...
Kafka on the Shore?
Another WAG from your library, based on your clue. But I'm not familiar with the book or author, myself.
... two questions, and many more, completely gripped me and I could not finish this book fast enough. Unusual. Shades of Kafka, Houellebecq, Easton Ellis perhaps.
Recommended
#13: Sayonara, Gangsters
Still going with Kafka on the Shore but also Bloodsucking Fiends, Welcome to the NHK, The Zen of Fish, Dark Water, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman and In Praise of Shadows.
It seems like I've started way more than I can finish. I refuse to buy, borrow or ...
#58: It wasn't my first (that was Sputnik Sweetheart), but I really loved After Dark as well. I've been reading Kafka on the Shore chapter by chapter for the last month and it's a much denser, heavier read. I suppose some people vastly prefer the more in depth works but I enjoyed After Dark ...
... but even he admitted it was one of his least favorites of the works. I haven't read many of his novels, but I do love Kafka on the Shore--for the me, the writing is beautiful, the characters engaging, and the story is just fun. I would classify it as magical realism, so it's not for ...
... up for air by George Orwell
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
And after hearing so very much about it on LT, Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami.
After this huge splurge, I fully intend not to buy any more books until the book fair I go to each November (excluding This ...
I read Kafka on the Shore on an all-day train trip from Sapporo to Yokohama. it was so engrossing, I paid no attention to the scenery.
Currently in the middle of Kafka on the Shore and loving it.
#11: Missing: Spirited Away
I'm seriously going to make some headway with Kafka on the Shore this coming week, rather than reading the other two library books I've picked up. I have a habit of giving up on books and shelving them for a "reading reattempt" at a later date if I've let them sit ...
... by Janice Galloway
7. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon *
8. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
... 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 of places, but the ending of ...
... Completos 1 by Julio Cortazar, the first of a three volume set of his short stories.
Right behind that would b
