Books: Haruki Murakami
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Anyone read any of Haruki Murakami's books? Reading Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Only a bit into it but awesome writing, really like his style; It is written film noir but without a Frenchman in sight. The universe he is creating is starkly beautiful, clean, simple and hard but good for lone thinkers. Oh and I finished Boudicia by Manda Scott last night (only to find out it is a bloody trilogy! Flipping hell, now have to wait for the other two books, and they are not cheap.) A recommended adventure romp. It is more mature, realistic and subtler than the usual Sword & Sorcerey type books but far less grisly and more enjoyable than some historical fiction set in those times (Roman times.) Oh and for any Douglas Adams fans a friend tells me that his posthumus book, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time, is worth reading. Not for people who have not read all of his books though. It is more a collection of his thoughts with only a short Dirk Gently story in it. Very unpolished, apparently his editors took all his unfinished meanderings off his HD and cobbled it together. Who else here is part of a book club? (I don't mean one of those mail order Oprah Winfrey style book clubs :) )
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africabrianwelsch wrote: I find my day goes by more smoothly if I never question other peoples fantasies. My own disturb me enough.
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Anyone read any of Haruki Murakami's books? Reading Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Only a bit into it but awesome writing, really like his style; It is written film noir but without a Frenchman in sight. The universe he is creating is starkly beautiful, clean, simple and hard but good for lone thinkers. Oh and I finished Boudicia by Manda Scott last night (only to find out it is a bloody trilogy! Flipping hell, now have to wait for the other two books, and they are not cheap.) A recommended adventure romp. It is more mature, realistic and subtler than the usual Sword & Sorcerey type books but far less grisly and more enjoyable than some historical fiction set in those times (Roman times.) Oh and for any Douglas Adams fans a friend tells me that his posthumus book, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time, is worth reading. Not for people who have not read all of his books though. It is more a collection of his thoughts with only a short Dirk Gently story in it. Very unpolished, apparently his editors took all his unfinished meanderings off his HD and cobbled it together. Who else here is part of a book club? (I don't mean one of those mail order Oprah Winfrey style book clubs :) )
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africabrianwelsch wrote: I find my day goes by more smoothly if I never question other peoples fantasies. My own disturb me enough.
having read "The Salmon of doubt" I really wouldn't recommend it to any but ardent Douglas Adam's fans, while I appreciate the fact that it allows readers to ensure that they have read everything he wrote there is a damn good reason why most of the stuff in it wasn't published in book form in his life time. I've never been in a book club I mostly search through well to be honest just about any shop that sell's books that I come across both new or second hand. Anthony www.TonysOpenSource.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
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Anyone read any of Haruki Murakami's books? Reading Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Only a bit into it but awesome writing, really like his style; It is written film noir but without a Frenchman in sight. The universe he is creating is starkly beautiful, clean, simple and hard but good for lone thinkers. Oh and I finished Boudicia by Manda Scott last night (only to find out it is a bloody trilogy! Flipping hell, now have to wait for the other two books, and they are not cheap.) A recommended adventure romp. It is more mature, realistic and subtler than the usual Sword & Sorcerey type books but far less grisly and more enjoyable than some historical fiction set in those times (Roman times.) Oh and for any Douglas Adams fans a friend tells me that his posthumus book, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time, is worth reading. Not for people who have not read all of his books though. It is more a collection of his thoughts with only a short Dirk Gently story in it. Very unpolished, apparently his editors took all his unfinished meanderings off his HD and cobbled it together. Who else here is part of a book club? (I don't mean one of those mail order Oprah Winfrey style book clubs :) )
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africabrianwelsch wrote: I find my day goes by more smoothly if I never question other peoples fantasies. My own disturb me enough.
I've not yet read anything by Haruki Murakami, but he's been on my Amazon wishlist for a while after a couple of recommendations...maybe I'll use yours to tip the balance & get one of his books...hmmmm, off on a lazy holiday in five weeks time, that sounds like an ideal time :-D I've alread got 'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow' by Peter Hoeg waiting for then (my brother-in-law got it, hasn't yet read it, so I said I'd give it a go first :-)) In the UK, they've got a run-down of 'the nations 1000 favourite books' on BBC tonight - it'll be interesting to see how many books are really peoples favourites and how many look like books that people think they should like :-) Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'