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1Q84 - Haruki Murakami

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S. L.

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just got book 3 gifted \^_^/

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345triangle

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i preordered this book on kindle a week ago for 11 quid or so, and the price has already gone down to £6.30! is this common? they're only charging me the new price.
 
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scotcheggz

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Oh nice, I'm glad this is out in English so soon. I read it in Japanese but it was such a fucking chore I'm not really sure I know what even happened all told lol.
 
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BlazingDarkness

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Official release is 45 minutes in the UK!
I believe there are midnight launches in various stores too, some stores claiming it to be the biggest book launch since the last Harry Potter, says the BBC
 
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Smithy C

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BlazingDarkness said:
Official release is 45 minutes in the UK!
I believe there are midnight launches in various stores too, some stores claiming it to be the biggest book launch since the last Harry Potter, says the BBC
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The bookshop in my town is doing a midnight release of 1Q84. Considered going, but I know I will just get home and fall asleep right away without even trying to read any of it. I'll go get it on my lunch break.
 
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LProtag

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I keep forgetting that I preordered this on Amazon and I used credit I had so I technically never had to pay for it so it'll just come to my house without me even realizing it.

Can't wait. Though it's not out till the 25th here. I would have been all over that special edition if I was in the UK.
 
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ramyeon

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Pre-ordered the American edition on Amazon. Doesn't come out here until late next month and I'm not up for paying shipping twice to get the split up edition. Can't wait. This is going to consume my time once I get it, his books always do.

It was so damn cheap too! Like $16, while the Aussie version has an RRP of $40. Books are ridiculously expensive here. It was so cheap that I felt okay splurging on priority shipping that was twice the price of the book... Don't think I can wait.
 
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ichigo kurosaki

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Surprised that it hadn't released in the UK yet. I've just finished reading it [Spanish translation, released earlier in the year] and really enjoyed it. Part 3 just came out here, I'm looking forward to finishing it now :)
 
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345triangle

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it's downloaded to my ipad and iphone but i can't decide whether or not to start reading before my actual kindle gets here later this week!
 
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BlazingDarkness

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I read the first few chapters in my lunch break today, I'm already hooked!
Really interested to learn more about Fuka-Eri

Any other UKers grab a copy today?
 
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Dynamite Ringo Matsuri

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345triangle said:
it's downloaded to my ipad and iphone but i can't decide whether or not to start reading before my actual kindle gets here later this week!
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Wait, what? Are you in a different territory? I got all excited and checked iBooks and it said it was available for preorder? Bah, I need to wait it out for Amazon's hardcover :(
 
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Empty

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read the first chapter this morning, straight into that effortless murakami style that's so nice to return to. i youtubed the classical song mentioned to get an understanding of the mood in the taxi too.

no class tommorow so i'm going to have a nice long reading day on my sofa. can't wait.
 
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BlazingDarkness

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Empty said:
read the first chapter this morning, straight into that effortless murakami style that's so nice to return to. i youtubed the classical song mentioned to get an understanding of the mood in the taxi too.

no class tommorow so i'm going to have a nice long reading day on my sofa. can't wait.
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ditto, im off work tomorrow so i will be wholly engrossed i think!
mind linking me to the song?
 
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Noaloha

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I'm a little confused by the UK's offered printing(s). Am I right in saying that there's no collected hardbook here, just a hardback Parts1&2, which is already available, then a hardback Part3 in a week?

I kinda want a single hardback volume.
 
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BlazingDarkness

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Toodles said:
I'm a little confused by the UK's offered printing(s). Am I right in saying that there's no collected hardbook here, just a hardback Parts1&2, which is already available, then a hardback Part3 in a week?

I kinda want a single hardback volume.
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Yep, UK has hardback volumes 1 and 2 in one book, and then in a week the third and final volume will be released hardback too, whereas in the US, all 3 volumes are released together next week
 
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Stinkles

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Empty said:
read the first chapter this morning, straight into that effortless murakami style that's so nice to return to. i youtubed the classical song mentioned to get an understanding of the mood in the taxi too.

no class tommorow so i'm going to have a nice long reading day on my sofa. can't wait.
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I often listen to the songs mentioned in books while I read those passages. Thank you based internet.
 
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Krauser Kat

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Npr compared this is lisbeth salander... i dont know if that was a good idea.

Just finished clash of kings, dont know if i should go to the next martin, or the new pratchett or this.
 
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AAequal

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Dang, my copy won't arrive until monday, with luck friday :( Can you post pics of the print ? I want to know how big the font is :D I hate most of the the vintage releases because they usually have small font and on top of that it's all crammed in small space.

Edit. Is there a difference between Random House and Vintage release ?
 
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sparky2112

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Krauser Kat said:
Npr compared this is lisbeth salander... i dont know if that was a good idea.
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Well, one is accessible garbage and one isn't, so I think there may be a whole mess of people in for a rude awakening...

Remember everyone who bought Extreme's Pornograffity based on 'More than Words'?
 
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Ermac

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If I didn't like Wind Up Bird, will I not like this either?
 
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marrec

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BlazingDarkness said:
I find this review really hard to read
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Reading the comments was enlightening, I didn't know Murakami was regarded as a pulp novelist by the elite... news to me.
 
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SD-Ness

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/m...of-haruki-murakami.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami

By SAM ANDERSON

I prepared for my first-ever trip to Japan, this summer, almost entirely by immersing myself in the work of Haruki Murakami. This turned out to be a horrible idea. Under the influence of Murakami, I arrived in Tokyo expecting Barcelona or Paris or Berlin — a cosmopolitan world capital whose straight-talking citizens were fluent not only in English but also in all the nooks and crannies of Western culture: jazz, theater, literature, sitcoms, film noir, opera, rock ’n’ roll. But this, as really anyone else in the world could have told you, is not what Japan is like at all. Japan — real, actual, visitable Japan — turned out to be intensely, inflexibly, unapologetically Japanese.

This lesson hit me, appropriately, underground. On my first morning in Tokyo, on the way to Murakami’s office, I descended into the subway with total confidence, wearing a freshly ironed shirt — and then immediately became terribly lost and could find no English speakers to help me, and eventually (having missed trains and bought lavishly expensive wrong tickets and gestured furiously at terrified commuters) I ended up surfacing somewhere in the middle of the city, already extremely late for my interview, and then proceeded to wander aimlessly, desperately, in every wrong direction at once (there are few street signs, it turns out, in Tokyo) until finally Murakami’s assistant Yuki had to come and find me, sitting on a bench in front of a honeycombed-glass pyramid that looked, in my time of despair, like the sinister temple of some death-cult of total efficiency.

And so I was baptized by Tokyo’s underground. I had always assumed — naively, Americanly — that Murakami was a faithful representative of modern Japanese culture, at least in his more realist moods. It became clear to me down there, however, that he is different from the writer I thought he was, and Japan is a different place — and the relationship between the two is far more complicated than I ever could have guessed from the safe distance of translation....
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Stinkles

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SD-Ness said:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/m...of-haruki-murakami.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami

By SAM ANDERSON
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Maybe it's just how I think about places, but I find Murakami's vision of Tokyo to be 100% accurate to my jet laggy experiences there. Wandering through temples grounds at night, encountering stray cats by the hundred and sarcophagus-wrapped Homeless people by the dozen. Young lovers strolling among it obvlivious. Little jazz clubs in basements, weird dead-end alleys. It always feels like your just on the brink of turning a corner into a supernatural layer of the same place.
 
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BlazingDarkness

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Managed to read a couple more chapters today

Just got to the bit where Aomame
picks up the guy in the hotel
and Tengo has
arranged a second meeting with Fuka-Eri
WTF is up with Aomame :lol Bitch is crazy
'I don't give a SHIT about your business, mister, I just happen to like the shape of your head'
 
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OuterWorldVoice said:
Maybe it's just how I think about places, but I find Murakami's vision of Tokyo to be 100% accurate to my jet laggy experiences there. Wandering through temples grounds at night, encountering stray cats by the hundred and sarcophagus-wrapped Homeless people by the dozen. Young lovers strolling among it obvlivious. Little jazz clubs in basements, weird dead-end alleys. It always feels like your just on the brink of turning a corner into a supernatural layer of the same place.
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I do too. My wife and I were talking about this the other night, and we both agree that some of our favorite times in Tokyo have been spent wandering around neighborhoods and back alleys. We always stay at a little ryokan in Yanaka (Taito-ku) which is perfect for this kind of exploring.
 
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LProtag

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Man, with all the stuff going on in my life I'm going to have trouble finding time to read this. Too many exams and things that I need to do along with work... blah.
 
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foomfoom415

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OuterWorldVoice said:
Maybe it's just how I think about places, but I find Murakami's vision of Tokyo to be 100% accurate to my jet laggy experiences there. Wandering through temples grounds at night, encountering stray cats by the hundred and sarcophagus-wrapped Homeless people by the dozen. Young lovers strolling among it obvlivious. Little jazz clubs in basements, weird dead-end alleys. It always feels like your just on the brink of turning a corner into a supernatural layer of the same place.
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I feel like despite calling it Tokyo, Murakami is always describing Kobe.
 
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Ermac

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I was ok on Wind Up.. i Just didn't like the jumping all over the place with news articles and flashbacks. That and I thought the kinda was kinda meh. It was very well written however, and reading that NYT article makes 1Q84 sound really interesting though.
 
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