Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (ISBN:0679743464) | weRead
 
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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few weeks ago
An interesting exercise in left-brain/right-brain,fantasy/ science fiction storytelling, all with the distinctive Murakami style that we've all grown to love ;-). The story can actuall be split into two seperate works of fiction, the first being a science fiction novel following the exploits of a 35 year old "Calcutec" (organic data-processor) caught in the middle of an information war...more
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few weeks ago
A damn fine book. Weirdly reminiscent of parts of Gaiman's Neverwhere (especially the underground bits), Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians (the bleak, blank solitariness of the End of the World setting) and, in the more humorous and zany parts, of Jim Jarmusch's films. It also has elements of Paul Auster's In the Country of Last Things and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, though it doesn't quite...more
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few weeks ago
Murakami here paints a fantastical world divided in to two a 'hard-boiled wonderland' which is greatly similar to our own world except for some oddities where the security information is paramount and the 'end of the world' which is the story of the souless in a town and the unicorns they look after, the worlds are linked but the link is not too easy to say. Murakami paints a spellbindingly...more
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Ron
few weeks ago
My second favorite Murakami novel after Wind-up Bird. The book begins as two stories in one, with odd chapters devoted to one thread and even chapters devoted to the other thread. Not until the end do you begin to see the link between the two tales and then... well, you'll need to read it yourself. Also, one of the few Murakami novels that has an actual ending and leaves you with some...more
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Amy
few weeks ago
Definitely one of my favorite books. This is the second time I read it and it was better than I remembered, too. It's deliciously surreal and imaginative but not wildly fantastical. Continues Murakami's exploration of the mind and consciousness/subconsciousness. Summary-wise, basically there's this guy in Tokyo and he launders information and gets mixed up with a scientist who'd been messing...more
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