Joshua's comments (member since Jun 20, 2007)

Joshua's comments from the Murakami fans group.

I'm surprised so many people have started off with "Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" as a first book. It's my favorite HM but I think people might really get into it more if they've read a few other things by HM first to get a sense of his style. I think if I'd read it first I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much.

"Dance Dance Dance" was my first. I'd long been interested in it because of the cover but saw it used in a Seattle bookstore and decided that was the time. I loved parts of it and then was frustrated by other parts of it--something that happens to me sometimes w/ his books but that's okay because the parts I love, I really love.

Within the year I'd read "A Wild Sheep Chase" and "Hardboiled Wonderland..." and now I read them as they come out--although I'm sort of delaying the reading of "After Dark".

I'm getting ready to read it too. I know absolutely nothing about the plot--how I kind of like it--so I'm curious to see what unfolds.

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Thankfully, I had read 4 or 5 other Murakami and was ready for this one...I just think it's his most complete novel that is so engrossing it can affect your dreams. It's hard for a book to invade my life so much that I'm dreaming about being in it or characters show up in my dream world. I really like particular others but The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle just does it for me.

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Thankfully, I had read 4 or 5 other Murakami and was ready for this one...I just think it's his most complete novel that is so engrossing it can affect your dreams. It's hard for a book to invade my life so much that I'm dreaming about being in it or characters show up in my dream world. I really like particular others but The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle just does it for me.