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| Someone explain it to me... : Haruki Murakami | | 3 | whitewavedarling, February 26 | |
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| Book talk : A STUPID GAME TO PLAY. . . THE OLD ONE IS TOO LONG | | 228 | DFED, Today 12:05pm |
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| Book talk : Name authors that after youve red them first, you had the urge to read EVERYTHING they wrote. | | 361 | kara_b, May 2 |
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| Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction : Haruki Murakami: best and worst | | 62 | murakami_grl, April 29 |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 5 April 2008 | | 195 | lindsacl, April 23 |
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| The Green Dragon : Have You Bought Any Books Lately Part 3 | | 362 | maggie1944, January 11 |
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| Book talk : Stupid game to play | | 432 | siubhank, October 2007 |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - August 2007 | | 176 | Cariola, September 2007 |
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| | ... Wood (I figured the Beatles connection will help there, though I've heard it isn't as good as his later novels) or After Dark (which I picked up because for some reason the idea of Denny's in Japan just grabbed my interest). 47. After dark by Haruki Murakami
I am so glad that I read this so soon after the other Murakami. It was so much shorter and easier to read. Very interesting story that moves through the night following Mari while she fills in the time so she doesn't have to sleep. I liked it. karen, I have both Norwegian wood and After Dark waiting in the current pile of library books to be read. I will take a break before I attempt either of them though. Just finished After Dark, can't say it's his best novel, I'd even call it a novella, it just had a feel of incompleteness and underdevelopment, however it was still very good, I felt all the Eri Asai descriptions of deep sleep were so David Lynchian, I could even see how he would stage this all ... "Like, say, an octopus."
After Dark, by Haruki Murakami
"Weird creature?" # 136: hemlokgang
After Dark sounds really good! It's one of the few Haruki Murakami books I haven't gotten yet. Something to look forward to!
"Everybody's got their own battlefields, he said with a smile."
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
"Deep and personal?" After an intense journey to Tokyo with After Dark by Haruki Murakami, I am back in the Big Apple, the Bronx in the 1950s specifically, with Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi. "He kilt her. He kilt her."
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
" 'You mean, like a real phobia?' Kaoru asks."
After Dark by Haruki Murakami ... road trip along the New England coast with Red Lights, I jetted to present day Tokyo for another edgy experience reading After Dark by Haruki Murakami. #24- Red Lights by Georges Simenon
#25- After Dark by Haruki Murakami Enchi 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. >54, After Dark was actually my first Murakami - I LOVED it! It made me want to read everything he has ever written, even though I think I heard that his writing style is different in other works. RE: Murakami. I found After Dark to be a bit underwhelming, compared to Murakami's other works. My favorite is Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but if you really don't like sci-fi, I don't recommend it. If you do like themes of mind, memory, identity, thrown in with some Jung ... 9. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
I read this book for the Japanese Literature Challenge and the Notable Book Challenge. This is my first Murakami. I wasn’t sure what to expect, and even though I am only rating this a 3.5, I will definitely read more by this author. I found his writing ... Thanks dcozy, your review made me want to read After Dark even more. Thanks for the great review. ... 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. I found another book by Murakami but translated by a different person. I ... A lot of Murakamiites seem to despise After Dark, but I liked it quite a bit. Have a look at my review here:
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200712010057.html
Am I the only one who has noted (or perhaps I made it up out of whole cloth) the Hopper connection? ... a few exceptions here and there).
#1: Crossfire
#2: Shadow Family
#3: All She Was Worth
#4: Piercing
#5: After Dark
#6: Jennifer Government
Currently I am working on Strangers and Kafka on the Shore, alternating between longer and shorter books as my mood changes.
... ... look at novels. I have yet to read everything by Murakami (far from it actually, only read this, South of the Border, and After Dark), for fear of finishing everything he's written. I do own copies of Hard-Boiled Wonderland, Norwegian Wood, and The Elephant Vanishes though. For what it's worth, Norwegian Wood and After Dark are my two least favorite Murakami novels by far--and I have read all of them, including 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 ... 3. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
pgs: 191. Read 14-15 January.
total pages: 639 I'll be starting After the Quake by Haruki Murakami either today or tomorrow. I really loved After Dark, so I've made it my goal for 2008 to explore more of his writing. ... Child and Other Stories - Richard Russo
Angelica - Arthur Phillips
Blindness - Jose Saramago
After Dark - Haruki Murakami
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
My Lobotomy - Howard Dully
The ... The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Angelica by Arthur Phillips
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
... his other novels and short stories since then, and have also reviewed two of his books (Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman and After Dark) in a local newspaper. What can I say? I'm a big fan. ... pick up some pictures in town, I couldn't resist going to the bookstore and left with Eros Unbound by Anais Nin and After Dark by Haruki Murakami. Despite a tbr pile as high as the Matterhorn...
(Touchstones are not cooperating today...) ... Margarita
PJ—Oriental philology and literature The Girls of Riyadh
PL— Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania After Dark
PN—Literature (general) Totto-chan
PQ—French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature Les Misérables
PR—English ... "So you studied hard?"
After Dark by Haruki Murakami (42) After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Still processing this book...
I can't even explain it but I feel like I really loved this one. Sparse, understated, a growing undercurrent of menace that (almost) never seems to go anywhere. Experiments in perspective. Totally unresolved.
Going ... Just finished Haruki Murakami's After Dark. I enjoyed it but I'm still digesting it at this point. It was a really fast read - about two hours, I'd say - so I may read it again in a week or so, since I'm not quite sure what to think of it. Tomorrow I'll be picking up Diane Setterfield's ... Just left Japan, with Haruki Murakami's After Dark - still digesting that and forming my thoughts. It was such a quick read I think I might read it again in a week or so. Tomorrow I will be continuing with Joe Sacco's Palestine and also going to Diane Setterfield's England with Th ... Just finished After Dark by Haruki Murakami - still processing it, I guess. Also reading Joe Sacco's graphic novel Palestine and tomorrow I'll be picking up The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield from the library. ... with each entry addressing a separate issue concerning language). I am planning to start Haruki Murakami's After Dark tomorrow, since it just came into the library for me! ... life caught up with me and I haven't had time to read them. And today my own copies came from Amazon: Divisadero and After Dark. At this rate, I might have to live to 140 to read everything I already have. ... life caught up with me and I haven't had time to read them. And today my own copies came from Amazon: Divisadero and After Dark. At this rate, I might have to live to 140 to read everything I already have. From the library:
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
and for my husband's commute, on audio - Freakanomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. ... Wade Wellman first grabbed my attention with a series of new paperbacks in the early 1980's, such as THE OLD GODS WAKEN, AFTER DARK, and THE LOST AND THE LURKING. They were set in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina and centered on a character called John, who with his silver-stringe ... A few come to mind:
Haruki Murakami -- after reading After Dark
Jorge Louis Borges -- incredibly brilliant
Isak Dinesen -- crystalline, lyrical prose
Peter Hoeg -- after reading Smila's Sense of Snow
Michael Ondaatje -- after reading The English Patient
Joan Didio ... Well, I have been wandering much of Eurasia recently, having just left Japan and After Dark as well as wandering from St. Petersburg to Siberia in The Stray Dog Cabaret; now I've just started going back in time to medieval Japan in the unabridged Tyler translation of The Tale of Genji; I've ... ... left, so a little less than 10 books a month.
My current reads (of course, they don't count until they're done):
After Dark by Huraki Murakami
The Shadow of the Great Game: the Untold Story of India's Partition by Narendra Singh Sarila
The Reshaping of Everyday Life: 1790- ... ... a book that had no ISBN 10, and got no result. Searched by title, got the right book, with the right ISBN 13.
Book was After Dark.
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