Marianne's comments (member since Sep 13, 2007)

Marianne's comments from the Murakami fans group.

My first Murakami was "A Wild Sheep Chase". It was 1996, I was backpacking from Cape Town to Budapest and I was in the Sinai, Egypt. I wandered into a restaurant and on the cushion next to me was this book. I picked it up and started reading. About an hour later the owner came back, an incredibly cute Israeli guy. I fell in love with him for his choice in books and moved back to Tel Aviv with him. Since then I have read everything Murakami has written that has been translated into English. I think The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles may be my favorite, but I'd be hard pressed to settle on that given my all-consuming passion for all thing Murakami. I also agree with Bianca that Kafka on the Shore was an especially cohesive book, and that was the book with which I chose to introduce my current love to Murakami. It's important to start them off right because I would find it hard to love a man who didn't love Murakami, at least a little.