false <![CDATA[Piercing]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223998018m/14288.jpg 14288 7 <B>A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of <I>In the Miso Soup</I></B> <P> A renaissance man for the postmodern age, Ryu Murakami; a musician, filmmaker (<I>Tokyo Decadence</I>), TV personality, and award-winning author; has gained a cult following in the West. His first novel, <I>Almost Transparent Blue</I>, won Japan's most coveted literary prize and sold over a million copies, and his most recent psychosexual thriller, <I>In the Miso Soup</I>, gave readers a further taste of his incredibly agile imagination. In <I>Piercing</I>, Murakami, in his own unique style, explores themes of child abuse and what happens to the voiceless among us, weaving a disturbing, spare tale of two people who find each other and then are forced into hurting each other deeply because of the haunting specter of their own abuse as children. 816636 1997 Piercing total:261|5:41|4:100|3:78|2:31|1:11| 261 912 386 61 4 1 false false Wed Dec 24 09:08:27 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 09:16:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 18:28:10 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 12:20:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 14 08:08:57 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 16 09:00:20 -0700 2009 Spoiler alert: The following review does not tell how Piercing ends, but it may tell more about the set-up for the ending than you want to know.

Kawashima Masayuki is, without a doubt, mentally ill. He stands above the crib of his baby girl each night brandishing an ice pick, telling hi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 08:03:35 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 18:44:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 10 10:34:26 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 21:08:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 27 07:56:02 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 30 09:15:34 -0700 2008 The trouble with this book, I think, is in the translation. Having read just about everything R Murakami has had published in English, I've come to figure out that I don't like this particular translator. He w...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 07:52:47 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 11:17:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 04:24:18 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 04:28:55 -0700 2009
They deserve each other and its pity this isn't expl...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 28 07:32:03 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 09:16:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 06:05:43 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 16 05:02:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 12:29:36 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 14:48:38 -0700 2008
1st chapter: I don't know if I can make it through this right now, stressful and scary book. Very vivid, very intense reading experience, with shockingly imaginable horrors described in intimate detail. Second or third book read this month with the subject of impending or recent marr...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 20 10:28:57 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 10:31:18 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Tue Feb 10 13:19:46 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 13:20:40 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jan 21 09:36:47 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 09:37:24 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 30 21:11:09 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 26 15:10:42 -0800 2008 In the Miso Soup, Murakami delivers a his version of a modern American psycho thriller. The story follows two very disturbed people who eventually come together and clash in a seriously deadly way. While there is a lot of interesting psychological insight to be...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 16:01:11 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 16:01:48 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 05:43:25 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 08 07:59:10 -0800 2009
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