false <![CDATA[The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166468418m/11275.jpg 11275 39 In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria. 2531376 book 1992 The Wind-up Bird Chronicle total:19784|5:9197|4:6935|3:2773|2:658|1:221| 19784 83581 28084 2580 5 45 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 07:03:43 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 07:43:52 -0700 2009 WATER IS GOOD!

You, the politician with the psychopath eyes on the T.V.! I hate you!

Russian scheming

Where the fuck is my cat?!!! And why did I name him after you Mr. Psychopath EYES!

War
Blood
Death

Zoo animals?

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I enjoyed the first half tremendously. The bits of mystery stacking on top of poor Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The cast of characters like no other. The slip in and out of reality. Then it left reality behind. Once Nutmeg and Cinnamon hit the scene, my stress level rose and it never...more...]]> 3 20 false false Fri Feb 22 08:07:48 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 14 06:35:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 14 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 18:06:26 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 19:16:30 -0700 2008
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a beautifully written, complexly woven book that takes us into the life of Toru Okada, who quit his ordinary job and seems to be waiting to see where his life will take him next. How...more...]]> 5 18 false false Tue Sep 18 14:21:14 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 18:27:44 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 14:20:07 -0700 2007
Still, the book is compelling. You can't seem to put it down. ...more...]]> 5 12 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 20 10:34:55 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 08:40:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 14 false false Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 12:33:06 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 19:08:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 10 false false Wed Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 07:11:16 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 16:49:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 15 false false Sat Jan 17 11:38:56 -0800 2009 Tue May 05 21:01:28 -0700 2009
It is quiet difficult for me to describe what this book was like. It is surreal and psychedelic. It is mysterious, something out of this world. You just need to stop questioni...more...]]> 4 5 false false Sat Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 20:31:01 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 23:25:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 11 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 13:49:48 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 15:41:37 -0700 2008 Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is actually probably the best novel I've read in a long time. Granted, many of the novels I've read over the last two years have not been spectacular. There was The Lovely Bones. And then The Ass and the Angel. And then His Dark Materials. And others, none of wh...more...]]> 4 8 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 11:08:39 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 11:19:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 6 false false Wed Aug 29 04:07:33 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 17 14:01:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 9 false false Thu May 22 07:25:59 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 07:50:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 5 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 06 11:07:45 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 16:08:24 -0800 2009 Passages are vaguely familiar, but in the nicest, misty dream sort of way possible.

Here is why I love Murakami: The passage on ironing shirts put me in the mood...more...]]> 4 5 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Sep 12 10:46:42 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 11:07:42 -0700 2007
I'm not going to be able to begin describing details of the book itself. It is too full...more...]]> 5 4 false false Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 04 08:24:50 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 27 19:22:58 -0800 2009
This book is...
Well it is really hard to explain what this book is like.
I have compared it to a David Lynch movie, but it's not exactly like that really-- it's just that there is a sense of strangeness like you are being told a story out of order and you have to put ...more...]]> 2 3 false false Sat Aug 23 23:30:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 17:29:39 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 23:30:00 -0700 2008
one thing that's occurred to me is the theme of the incertitude of accurate communication between human beings...
the telephone becomes a major symbol here...
at the time in which the novel is set, the early 80's, the telephone represented an insoluble...more...]]> 5 6 false false Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 11 20:50:47 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 23 17:03:07 -0700 2008
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle was actually written while Murakami was a writer-in-residence at Harvard, where his translator also worked conveniently. According to an interview with Jay Rubin, as soon as Murakami would finish a section, he would give it t...more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu May 10 06:48:15 -0700 2007 Thu May 10 08:45:05 -0700 2007
For Toru Okada, lif...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=11275