they should.Empty said:do kindle books unlock on the store at midnight?
BlazingDarkness said:2 days bitches
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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.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
BlazingDarkness said:Just got this on my Kindle =)
Waiting patiently for hardcover version :x
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 hardcover345triangle 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!
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.
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.
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.
I was just listening to it myself ;DOuterWorldVoice said:I often listen to the songs mentioned in books while I read those passages. Thank you based internet.
BlazingDarkness said:
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...Krauser Kat said:Npr compared this is lisbeth salander... i dont know if that was a good idea.
Red Blaster said:Is this only in hardcover?
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BlazingDarkness said:I find this review really hard to read
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 Murakamis 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 Murakamis 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 Tokyos 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....
SD-Ness said:
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
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.
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.
Ermac said:Anyone?
Ermac said:Anyone?