The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel | Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel | Haruki Murakami | One strange, but tasty plum!

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	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel Haruki Murakami Vintage, 1998 - 624 pages average customer review:based on 289 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Power of the Indefinite

As you read the reviews of this wondrous book, two themes recur. One is the absolutely hypnotic, addictive quality of the prose. Somehow this doesn't feel like a translation: it's more like a transcript of some events taken directly from one person's experience and put on the page. The transcript feels disturbingly like real life. There is a partly-understood disaster: the hero's wife disappears. There are glimmers of hope, even hints of redemption. People do things for reasons that aren't outlandish but we don't quite comprehend. Threads develop in the plot and then are left unr.....

While the reader is becoming annoyed with the lack of resolution, she becomes even more exasperated at her own inability to put the book down.She is left with the suspicion that the author has tapped into some spring of human consciousness and simply let it flood the page so that we readers are helpless to do anything but bathe in it.

I have the feeling that this book will be a monument, a milestone in literature and storytelling. After this, it will be hard to tell stories the same way again.

Lynn Hoffman author of the much-less mysterious bang BANG: A Novel and the perfectly comprehensible New Short Course in Wine,The

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One strange, but tasty plum!

As with most of Murakami's work, the first two-thirds of his books are engaging. For me, his books usually crap out on the last stretch, but his endings do not strangle you with a conclusion,leaving everything open for discussion (always the sign of a good book).

Murakami creates characters with quirk, concepts that smack of the serial. It's grand to read of the relationships he builds or tears down. I've always thought Murakami is the best writer of killing time. He has a knack for describing what could just be mundane tasks to give us an extra understanding of his characters.

This book is about more than a missing wife and the equally missing family cat. Murakami manages to inject an off-beat nymphet into each of his books, usually to both create a gap between the younger and older generations and to then bridge that gap by pairing them together. He also throws in his unusual but captivating secondary character (this time the mute boy codenamed Cinnamon). Contemporary Japan, a flashback tale of an old war hero and an escort service are thrown in the mix.
If this hits the spot, try 'Kafka on the Shore' and 'Sputnik Sweetheart', both by Murakami.

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Interesting writing style

This author's style is an easy read but he somehow manages to make the quotidian seem surreal. The mystery of the tale really had me going.

Wow, that's a trip!

What an eerily strange tale! It starts off simple enough, but before you know it, you are completely absorbed into a surreal situation where you don't know what is going on around you. But, to give credit to this talented writer, you simply don't care! You accept the absurdity, the trippy-ness, the lack of reason with complete abandon. This is not easy to do. The writing style is absolutely beautiful... the descriptions, at times lush, at others, creepy as hell!!! There is one scene that actually made me want to cover my eyes it was so gruesome -- and I'm not easily shocked! I would definitely recommend this, but only to those who are ready to surrender themselves to an alternate universe. Not for the skittish!

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