Christine's comments
Christine's comments from the Murakami fans group.
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Hello "someone"! Sorry I didn't remember your name. Thank you for your thoughts.
Our group description includes writers similar to Murakami, and I read a mention of a similar writer in someone's post. But I don't know of any similar writers. Can anyone help out? Who are similar writers? Thoughts on this?
I was SO hooked after one book.
Let's see... I was in the midst of an extended stay at a friend's apartment after my relationship crashed and burned. I was 22, and just skimming his bookshelf, which was loaded with Proust and lit theory and all kinds of heavy academic stuff (he had just graduated from a liberal arts college of some repute), for something ENJOYABLE to read, and came across this odd little book. If I recall correctly, the jacket claimed the book to be a "metaphysical detective novel" or something of the sort, and I was intrigued. Cut to a week later, and I was finishing "A Wild Sheep Chase" as I was getting off the subway in NYC. Well, I HAD to finish it, so I sat down on a bench, morning rush-hour traffic be damned, and finished it totally breathlessly. (I was late to work.)
I had never read anything like it and I was a fan. Next was "Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World."
Wow, that is a tough question. My first instinct is to say "The Wind Up Bird Chronicle" - I do think that's his masterpiece, his most accomplished work and the one that most successfully brings together all those wonderful Murakami elements we all know and love. But like several of you the first novel of his I ever read was "The Wild Sheep Chase" and I was completely blown away. "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" was just insane, and I think his most difficult to understand, but worth it in the end.
In the interests of full disclosure I have to say I've strayed from the path and haven't read either of his two most recent works...
So... favorite? I have to go with my gut and say "The Wild Sheep Chase."
