Mike's comments

Mike's comments from the Murakami fans group.

Note: Mike is no longer a member of this group.

K-rist it could be a Godzilla novel. That would 'rock', in a SuperFrog way.

good find Steve.

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I think any REAL fan would have a book from a favourite writer he/she REALLY DIDN'T LIKE. No?

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I'm not being a c*nt or anything, but this threads about Disappointments.

not "but I really liked [book title]'

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Walter,
it's from Murakami's amazing short story collection AFTER THE QUAKE - SuperFrog say "Ribbit!"

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well...

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no idea - I'm an url-grazer, one picks up this stuff

is it even true?

I heard something to the efffect that Haruki Murakami was working on a HORROR novel. This, IMHO, would be a great book. Does anyone have any 'insider info' on the truth of this claim?

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OMG he listens to the Manic Street Preachers while jogging.

shame on him - LOL

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I'd second that Philip K Dick comment, there are some great early Dick books that really feed off the future-Murakami vibe (oh yes time isn't linear) and we're all influenced in the past by the writings of the future, against our knowledge.

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Anyway, that sorta nonsense aside, here's a link to the Goodreads 'Philip K Dick' discussion group, which I'm the moderator of. All on this forum are welcome. It's a lively place and growing daily.

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1210...

YES, THAT'S IT, that's what I should have said to her. from Haruki Murakami's "On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful Morning" short story.

...there's so much of a ubiquitous sense of loss in this last line and it's a line that permeates all Murakami's writing. It's especially relevant to the end of the HARDBOILED/WORLD double-novel.

Jeff Noon and Octavia Butler both rock my boat.

I think in the same book there was an argument from a Finnish reader who was complaining that his version wasn't even translated directly from the Japanese, but from this abridged English version.

just to offer the reader of Haruki Murakami an insight into the workings of this writer's mind and body, here are a selection of interviews that are worth taking the time to read, and enjoy. I certainly did.

The SALON interview:
http://www.salon.com/books/int/1997/12/c...

the BOOKBROWSE interview:
http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_intervi...

the SPIEGEL interview:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/worl...

just wait a minute ... how many of you people who are attacking this movie are actually fans of Murakami's books?

I ask because, apart from a small revelatory moment of surrealism every now and then through the extent of eac narrative, VERY LITTLE HAPPENS in your standard Murakami novel.

It's all about atmosphere, and character.

So, I watched Tony Takitani again, last night ... and the way the wind was sympathetically incorporated into the film like an honoured guest, and the set design, and the enigmatic characters, and the downbeat endings, and pathetic struggle of humanity against the elements of fate, they were all there. It was an homage piece to the atmosphere (and character) of Murakami's work.

I know Murakami's supposed to be working on a 'horror' novel right now but this is a first, and there's no guarantee this'll be an 'action adventure' like many who were disappointed by the Tony Takitani movie.

Additionally, who on this group has seen (or was a big fan of) the films of Peter Greenaway? In particular, I think the side-ways scrolling camera that director Jun Ichikawa used throughout Tony Takitani was a narrative device directly lifted from Peter Greenaway's A COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER. Great film, just wondered what everyone else thought.

a Haruki Murakami HORROR novel - now that would kick!

I wonder if the Haruki Murakami Group has kicked the bucket... no longer active, extant?

Anyway, seems the book that's next in line for English translation is "Tokyo Mysterious Story Collection" published in Japan in 2005 as "Tōkyō Kitanshū" (東京奇譚集).

Anybody know who's working on the translation?

An.yb.od.y.......................?

thanks,
that was a great little piece - wonderful how Murakami can add 'character' to a strange name dragged through the ass-end of post-war Japan. Man's a genius.

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can someone who has contacts in Japan find out for us what Haruki Murakami is working on right now? I hope it's the second half of AFTER DARK (maybe titled AFTER THE SUN HAS RISEN) but I bet it's not.

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I didn't spot this on first viewing but Rie Miyazaki plays both female parts. A very quiet Japanese film, based on a story by Haruki Murakami - you watch it and wonder, then you watch the DVD extras and the way there's a soft breeze running through every perfectly-framed shot, you understand. Very subtle, touching and well produced film.