Haruki Murakami

maracuja recommended this 9 months ago

one of the best authors alive with his own style and way of telling unique stories

yeswecancan recommended this 1 year, 3 months ago

I read everything I can get a hold of when it comes to this Japanese author's mysterious writings.

Favorites are: Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood

samhendriks recommended this 1 year, 4 months ago

It's amazing how he can turn even the most wrenched subjects into an amazing story. I love the references in his books to other writers, history or current events and music.

NatureLover recommended this 1 year, 4 months ago

Reading his books is like talking to a life-long friend. His style is smooth and airy. Highly recommend it for any time of the day, week or month :-)

randallkennedy recommended this 1 year, 5 months ago

great fiction

gavrilobozovic recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago

Murakami starts with simple setups, in the middle-classes of japan. Then, as his stories turn imperceptibly weirder, he starts, also imperciptibly, to dig into our brains, leaving human souls bare for you to examine. He is a master.

gianluca recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago

you need to read Murakami.

fulch2hr recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago

he opens your eyes

april-lynn recommended this 1 year, 7 months ago

I just love everything he writes. I don't know what it is about his characters that make me want to read more.

jimperio recommended this 1 year, 7 months ago

I can fall almost completely into the minds of his wry-but-sensitive protagonists, his anything-goes-but-somehow-believable worlds, and the easy engrossing rhythm of his language.

A somewhat longer blog post I wrote about him some time back:
momeng.blogspot.com/2010/12/on-haruki-murakami.html

Very highly recommended. (I've already foisted away most of my copies of his books!)

zoomar recommended this 1 year, 8 months ago

The only writer I have to read immediately when a new book is released. Word jazz.

arpitaster recommended this 1 year, 9 months ago

I got The Wind Up Bird Chroncile as a Christmas gift and at the time I never heard of Haruki Murakami. It was such an amazing book!

allinwhite recommended this 1 year, 9 months ago

Hard boiled wonderland is the master of his book .Definitely one of the most important authors of our era.

luismuybien recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

An author I must discover, I've only read "What I talk about when I talk about running".

Bobseamonster recommended this 1 year, 11 months ago

Murakami can subtly shift your internal ebb and flow. I've read that at least one of his translators has stated that he believes reading Murakami's work can actually re-wire your brain and thought patterns. How does he do it? Reading him is like getting lost in someone else's dream, seeing the world from a mirror, or gazing into a bottomless well. Impossible to describe. My favorite author.

lenavis recommended this 1 year, 11 months ago

His writing is impressively atmospheric. Reading his work is almost akin to being in the situations that only he can describe so well. Although sometimes inaccessible and almost willfully obscure, much of his writing describes human loneliness and longing with an almost painful accuracy.

peter_me recommended this 2 years ago

a great author, but hard to get, could be more precise

magnusvk recommended this 2 years ago

Haruki Murakami is my favorite author, ever. I highly recommend all his books. If you have never read a Murakami novel, start with South of the Border, West of the Sun, probably his most accessible novel. If you feel ready for some of his crazier — but most amazing and worthwhile — works, I suggest The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle or Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

ictus recommended this 4 years, 1 month ago

Very musical books, even in translated version.
Cons: After reading the complete oeuvre, I was sick and tired of magical realism (but don't worry, now I'm cured).