Fiction

NRaleighLiberal

(60,019 posts) Thu Sep 20, 2012, 10:52 PM Sep 2012

OK...I just finished Murakami's 1Q84. wow. I just loved it. Next Murakami.....

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Would love to hear anyone else's experience with this book. It is going to stay with me - I didn't want it to end.

Am part way through Kafka on the Shore. I really love this writer!

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OK...I just finished Murakami's 1Q84. wow. I just loved it. Next Murakami..... (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Sep 2012 OP

What's it about? fadedrose Sep 2012 #1

nearly impossible to describe.....but I will try a few sentences. NRaleighLiberal Sep 2012 #2

Any specific "strain" of religion? fadedrose Sep 2012 #3

Nope - it really casts a negative light on fundamentalism and cults more than anything else. NRaleighLiberal Sep 2012 #4

Thanks, I put it on my request list...nt fadedrose Sep 2012 #5

Too many books, too little time! Curmudgeoness Sep 2012 #6

He has a bunch more and they are all different. Warren Stupidity Sep 2012 #7

we loved At Night - my wife also liked Kafka on the Beach....we are getting more to read. NRaleighLiberal Sep 2012 #8

Just updated my OP - travelling through Murakami continues with Kafka on the Shore. NRaleighLiberal Oct 2012 #9

Try either Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World or Bonobo Oct 2012 #10

we sure will...thanks! NRaleighLiberal Oct 2012 #11

If you've never read any Murakami before, what would be a good first novel to read? Poiuyt Nov 2012 #12

Kafka on the Shore. NRaleighLiberal Nov 2012 #13

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)

1. What's it about?

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 11:44 PM

Sep 2012

Sad, scary, exciting, funny, whodunnit, and what's the title stand for - It's not IQ, it's 1Q?

NRaleighLiberal

(60,019 posts)

2. nearly impossible to describe.....but I will try a few sentences.

Reply to fadedrose (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 11:48 PM

Sep 2012

Takes place in 1984 - alternating chapters of the two main characters. The characters are likable and beautifully developed....some seriously weird stuff happens. There are elements of mystery, spirituality, religion, cults, love, death, romance. it is a long book and unfolds patiently, and it creates its own world.

I can't describe why the title is 1Q84 - really, anything beyond what I've said would be a spoiler!