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    <body><![CDATA[This book really pissed me off. As near as I can tell, here's how it went [spoiler alert!]: ugly dude hangs out with hot chick who disappears. He eventually finds her in a hotel room, naked and disheveled.  She tells him that she had been alone one night on a Ferris wheel behind the hotel and it sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3668342">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After the excellent <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4929.Kafka_on_the_Shore" title="Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami">Kafka on the Shore</a> and the perhaps much better <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11275.The_Wind_up_Bird_Chronicle" title="The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami">Wind-Up Bird Chronicle</a>, I've been on something of a Murakami kick. I find his storytelling fascinating, both in device and in style. His use of the extraordinary-as-mundane is a tasty joy for me to indulge. Sputnik Sweetheart, while ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22984378">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why does Haruki Murakami hit the spot so well for me, and for thousands of other readers worldwide? There's a common element in all his works; it's a bridge of fantasy and reality that has just the right delicate balance. There's something about that balance that's so mesmerizing. You can connect wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1127819">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>I just read Sputnik Sweetheart by Murakami and Anansi Boys by Gaiman back to back. I'm a big fan of both authors. I've read all of Gaiman's work going back to the much celebrated Sandman comic books and I've been tearing through Murakami's as I get my hands on them. I'm struck by how sim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2104112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Don't get me wrong, I don't think this is, by any chance, a bad book. My low rating can be easily explained by the fact that I've already read <em>too much</em> Murakami.</p> <br/><p>I used to like him quite a lot, but come on, doesn't he get tired of writing the same book over and over again? Let me show you the ...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65749301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[what really made me grab this book from the bookshelf in the first place? was it because of the name 'Murakami'? or was it because of the woman seductively beckoning me to caress the cover and explore its inner pages? or... was it the endearment sweetheart or the word 'sputnik'?! <br/><br/>sputnik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2798743">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Haruki Murakami seems content sticking to writing from raw dreamstuff. I recently read the <em>Wind-Up Bird Chronicles</em>, and while that is epic and expansive and this book is quiet and small, his building blocks are the same: characters are impossibly quirky, most scenes are surrealistic and involve the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46694177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A story of wistful beauty, love, and longing.  A strange “through the looking glass” tale, told from a unique perspective.  Not only was this a beautiful piece of writing, but it was full of things I love – lesbians, unrequited love, Beatniks, magic... Also, it didn't read at all like a transl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15286164">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd like to re-read this in a year or two. I think I would enjoy it more if I had been able to read it all in a single day, or perhaps even extending into a second day. Due to a hectic schedule, I was unable to read for a week and I was no longer in the mood the book was trying to convey.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9257799">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Beautifully strange and thoroughly wrenching</strong>.<br/><br/>One of Murakami's shortest novels (though not as slim as <em>After Dark</em>, this is also one of his most moving. A triangular love story of another of Murakami's nameless male protagonists, his iconoclastic friend, Sumire, and Miu, a Korean businessw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15423044">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Това е книгата на Харуки Мураками, която прочетох може би най-бързо от всички негови книги досега. <br/>Като че ли е най-интригуваща - сюжетът те кара да разгръщаш стра...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74707792">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68098297">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ &quot;O narrador, um jovem professor primário, está apaixonado por Sumire, uma rebelde que conheceu na universidade. Um dia, num casamento, Sumire conhece Miu, uma mulher fascinante e misteriosa, de meia-idade, por quem se apaixona loucamente, acabando por se transformar na sua secretária. Parte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55461706">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[why do people have to be this lonely? what's the point of it all? millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves.  why? was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?<br/>i turned face-up on the slab of stone, gazed at t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53431345">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Prácticamente me bebí el libro entre ayer y hoy. Me gusta el sentimiento te soledad que impregna Murakami en sus libros. Pero no sólo ahí termina las coincidencias con el Tokio Blues, los personajes en sí son similares:<br/><br/>El narrador/personaje, solitario, intelectual, enamorado de una ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52542829">more...</a>]]></body>
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