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| 60% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Vintage Catalog: Book Release date: 2008-04-29 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 256 Ean: 9780307278739 Book Isbn: 0307278735  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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A sleek, gripping novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the spooky hours between midnight and dawn, by an internationally renowned literary phenomenon. Murakami's trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery. Combining the pyrotechnical genius that made Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle international bestsellers, with a surprising infusion of heart, Murakami has produced one of his most enchanting fictions yet. |
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 Written on April 29, 2008 Summary: Like a David Lynch Short Indeed Exactly like one: narcissistic, empty, worthless, and plagiarizing one's betters. Murakami's fans(those he has left) should realize this guy has become nothing but a brand name, similar to the endless brand names he uses in his Designer Fiction for "characterization" (rather than doing some real writing). He used to be great. Now he's nothing but an ATM with head and limbs. Written on April 21, 2008 Summary: Same old, Same old...Stop encouraging Murakami!!! Once again it is the same characters, the same plot, the same symbolism, the same themes, same western musical and food references to set a tone. Murakami has been stuck using the same bits and pieces for countless novels now and no one else seems to have recognized this. The main character is always the salaryman who is disillusioned too early in life or the latter aged teen in love with a woman unavailable to him, etc. Always a woman mysteriously disappears. Always there is an element of the underground...a well, a building underground, etc. It was really cool and stylish the first two or three times, but come on!!! Enough already. I think that is why his latest work is so short...even he is getting sick of doing it. Written on April 20, 2008 Summary: Not Impressed First time I read anything by this author and probably the last. The book was juvenile. The story is written at a slow, low level with poor conversations. Each line was predictable and flat. I could never figure out where the author was trying to go with the silly scenario of the girl endlessly sleeping. Don't waste your time reading or listening to this book.  Written on April 16, 2008 Summary: Murakami Strikes Gold...Again As is almost always the case, strange yet familiar things happen in Murakami's latest novel. Over the course of a single evening, Murakami weaves together the stories of two sisters, one of whom is in a perpetual sleep-state and another who lives on the fringes, reading books in late night diners, an amateur trombonist, and a love hotel called Alphaville where a Chinese prostitute is beaten by a computer programmer who goes days without ever seeing his wife or children. The regular loneliness all of the characters, yet when you read about them on the page, you always can't help but wonder why it is they are so lonely or why it is no one in the fabric of Murakami's world, people are not all over them. The narrative goes back and forth between the two sisters - Mari and Eri - and you keep reading at a faster and faster pace so as to find out how the two storylines intersect. Reading Murakami is as addictive as everyone says it is. I'm in my first year of law school and was still so engrossed that I finished this book in less than two days. Both long-time Murakami fans and new ones alike will marvel at this work. Written on April 7, 2008 Summary: Hated it! This book was chosen for me by my book club. I've never read this author before and won't ever again. I realize that I'm not the reader this book was intended for, but I hated this book so much. I felt that I was reading a screen play, rather than a book. How he describes looking in at the person sleeping, how we're standing at the door, the light coming in the window, the way the sheets move up and down with the breathing... so... Then the whole real life vs. fantasy world didn't work for me. In addition, the fact that none of the book's plots ever come to conclusion... there are at least 3 plot lines here (possibly 2 more) that just end... I just didn't like it and will never read his books again. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2008-04-29 | 2006-08-29 | 2006-01-03 | 1998-09-01 | 2007-10-09 | 2002-04-09 |
| Media | Paperback | Hardcover | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 256 | 352 | 480 | 624 | 384 | 368 |
| Ean | 9780307278739 | 9781400044610 | 9781400079278 | 9780679775430 | 9781400096084 | 9780375718946 |
| Book Isbn | 0307278735 | 1400044618 | 1400079276 | 0679775439 | 1400096081 | 037571894X |
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