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Topic: hard-boiled wonderland / Haruki
Murakami |
[wisp]
Operative |
posted December 02, 1999 05:59 PM
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i just finished this book recently- it was pure brilliance. for
those who have read this, can you recommend any other books that are
vaguely within the same lines?
thanks.
d.
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rakehell
Initiate |
posted December 05, 1999 02:55 AM
I love this book! After I finesh it, I thought to myself that I've
never read anything like it. The only book I know which 'feels' the
same is Patric Suskind's "Perfume". Which is a brilliant book but
completely different in subject matter. Maybe it's something to do
with translated works?
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Sitruc
Initiate |
posted December 14, 1999 07:31 AM
Unfortunately, I can offer no assistance on related works. I just
wanted to express my thanks.
I saw this book probably about five years ago. I was going to buy
it, but... whatever. Time passed. I forgot.
Now, you've reminded me of it just in time for Christmas.
You're just such a good person.
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Naraoia
Operative |
posted December 14, 1999 06:58 PM
Don't know if this will help, but Iain Banks' mainstream stuff is
pretty similar. Good, too. "Walking on Glass" is probably the
closest. I like his science fiction as well (under the name Iain M.
Banks) but I'm weird like that.
Murakami was drawing on a long line of inspirations, starting
with Borges and wending his way through the Magical Realists
(Marquez, Llosa, etc) by way of Pynchon, Don Delillo, and so
on...
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rakehell
Initiate |
posted December 16, 1999 12:35 PM
YES!!! 'Walking on glass' is A LOT like 'Hardboiled Wonderland'.
Both have that two-worlds-what-the-heck is going on feel to
them.
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[wisp]
Operative |
posted December 16, 1999 11:31 PM
hmmm, must go check the Banks books out then. Thanks much guys/gels~
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The
Scroll
Operative |
posted December 17, 1999 08:35 AM
Don't overlook Murakami's other novels, particularly THE WIND-UP
BIRD CHRONICLE. It's maybe not entirely along the same lines as HARD
BOILED, but, dammit, it is a wonderful work. It has everything:
mystery, the horrors of war, politics, sexual weirdness, mixed with
more than a few metaphysical moments.
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