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NRaleighLiberal

(60,596 posts) Thu Sep 20, 2012, 09:52 PM Sep 2012

OK...I just finished Murakami's 1Q84. wow. I just loved it. Next Murakami..... [View all]

Last edited Wed Oct 10, 2012, 02:07 PM - Edit history (1)

Would love to hear anyone else's experience with this book. It is going to stay with me - I didn't want it to end.

Am part way through Kafka on the Shore. I really love this writer!

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OK...I just finished Murakami's 1Q84. wow. I just loved it. Next Murakami..... [View all] NRaleighLiberal Sep 2012 OP

What's it about? fadedrose Sep 2012 #1

nearly impossible to describe.....but I will try a few sentences. NRaleighLiberal Sep 2012 #2

Any specific "strain" of religion? fadedrose Sep 2012 #3

Nope - it really casts a negative light on fundamentalism and cults more than anything else. NRaleighLiberal Sep 2012 #4

Thanks, I put it on my request list...nt fadedrose Sep 2012 #5

Too many books, too little time! Curmudgeoness Sep 2012 #6

He has a bunch more and they are all different. Warren Stupidity Sep 2012 #7

we loved At Night - my wife also liked Kafka on the Beach....we are getting more to read. NRaleighLiberal Sep 2012 #8

Just updated my OP - travelling through Murakami continues with Kafka on the Shore. NRaleighLiberal Oct 2012 #9

Try either Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World or Bonobo Oct 2012 #10

we sure will...thanks! NRaleighLiberal Oct 2012 #11

If you've never read any Murakami before, what would be a good first novel to read? Poiuyt Nov 2012 #12

Kafka on the Shore. NRaleighLiberal Nov 2012 #13