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Akeem Bailey rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura read in December, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
There were a few things about this book I really enjoyed: the impressionistic style of writing, the brevity of the text, the gritty plot and the subtle use of recurring symbols. Added together it was a good book that only took me two sessions to read...more
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Akeem Bailey rated a book 5 of 5 stars Ghostwritten by David Mitchell read in October, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This book was somewhere between 4 & 5 stars but being one of the best things I've read recently I decided to go w/ the later. To put it simply, this book makes me want to read the rest of Mitchell's stuff, which I will. I've already started on Cl...more
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Kafka on the Shore was the second Murakami book I read and it was one of the main reasons I became such a huge fan of the author. At that time, I thought everything I read was so original: the way Murakami split up the story into two parallel but con...more
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