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... in hearing your final thoughts when you finish Somersault. I've been considering it for a while, after reading Murakami's Underground and Philip Gabriel's yarb in 50 Book Challenge : Yarb (Jun 12, 2008, 2:26pm) ... 2008 (touchstones completely fucked - bear with me)
The Dwarf - Lagerkvist
Decline and Fall - Waugh
Underground - Murakami
A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthu's Court - Twain
A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia - Pelevin
The Unconsoled - Ishiguro
... I've posted this elsewhere on LT, but figured I'd slap it up here as well.
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami
At rush hour on the morning of Monday, March 20, 1995 commuters on several Tokyo subway lines were gassed, the gas in question being ... Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami
At rush hour on the morning of Monday, March 20, 1995 commuters on several Tokyo subway lines were gassed, the gas in question being the deadly sarin. The first section of Haruki Murakami's Underground is a ... 26. Underground by Haruki Murakami (reviewed). Finally finished after dipping in and out of it for quite a long time. It's a series of interviews with victims of the Tokyo sarin gas attack - not my usual sort of reading, but I like Murakami a lot, and the way he's worked with the topic is ... Finally Underground is read and reviewed! I'm sorry it took so long... I kept dipping in and out of it.
Fyrefly - how about A Natural History of Sex? I just couldn't resist that one!
Whoever is picking for me, please pick a book tagged 'grtb'. Thanks! ... next read, AnnaClaire!
I have three books I really want to finish this week: The Waves, In The Walled Gardens, and Underground. I'm enjoying them all in different ways, but I don't like reading little bits at a time - I prefer to be reading a book all the way through! Not sure what will ... Just posted my review of Audrey Hepburn.
wandering star, I'm a Murakami fan, but haven't read Underground so I'd like to see what you think...
Feel free to choose anything for my next book, read or not. Something halloweeny could be appropriate, but anything's good... ... Courtier and the Heretic
BL—Religions, Mythology, Rationalism The End of Faith
BP—Islam, Baha'ism, Theosophy Underground
BR—Christianity Letter to a Christian Nation
BS—The Bible Lion's Honey
BV—Practical Theology Lust
CB—History of Civilization Civilizations: ... ... of Free Trade and Protectionism
362 Social welfare problems & services – Devil in the Details
364 Criminology – Underground
398 Folklore – The Book of Imaginary Beings
400 Language – Contemporary Linguistic Analysis: an introduction
401 Philosophy & theory – Language A ... ... middle of The World According to Garp by John Irving, and am really enjoying it!
For non-fiction, I'm also reading Underground by Haruki Murakami, Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s by Marijane Meaker and The Price of Motherhood by Ann Crittenden. Wow, five books at the ... ... this Thursday! (Why did we assign a 900 page book for book club? :)
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Underground by Haruki Murakami
Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s by M.E. Kerr -- which I've barely touched this week.
I have been reading three books this week:
Underground by Haruki Murakami -- a fascinating series of interviews regarding the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
The World According to Garp by John Irving -- highly recommended, beautifully written, very clever
Highsmith: A Ro ... ... Shusaku Endo, particularly The Samurai and Scandal.
Of course, having only read one book by Haruki Murkami (Underground), which isn't a novel, I may not be the best person to make a comparison. I'm starting again for 2008. I don't want to start a new thread all for myself, so I'll edit this one and reuse it. I enjoyed having the record last year of my year in books.
My goal again this year - 100 substantial books. I am not recording ephemeral chick lit that I forget before I put the ... No one mentioned Underground? It seems that one of the best examples of non-ficiton novel writing since Tom Wolfe still had his marbles shouldn't be overlooked. I tend to have a work book and a home book so I'll add these two at a time.
1. Gasoline-Greg Corso
2. Underground-Haruki Murakami
... a bestseller while The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is probably his best regarded critically. You might also be interested in Underground, which I mentioned on one of the other threads here. It's a series of interviews with people involved in the subway gas attacks in 1995, mainly victims of the ... ... And again, I can't analyze why.
I liked Hardboiled Wonderland better than A Wild Sheep Chase. I found Underground really interesting (and I read it before 9/11). There were depressing parts, certainly, but I found a lot that was hopeful in it too. I guess what I took away ... ... available as a bookray on BookCrossing. Send me a PM (personal message) on BookCrossing if you'd like to participate.
Underground was interesting to me as it was the only nonfiction book by this author I've read. I knew little about the sarin attacks in Tokyo before reading it.
I am ... ... an interesting insight into Japanese culture' too. The main character's a man but the writer's a woman...
Finally Underground by Haruki Murakami is about the '95 Sarin attacks on the Tokyo underground but was also equally interesting for me for what I learnt about Japanese people's ... ... but I found it very much Murakami by numbers. There are others that I like apart from the two above but I'll just mention Underground - non-fiction, about the people caught up in the Sarin attack on the Tokyo underground.
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