BOOK CLUB ; SELECTION POST { may. }

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THIS MONTH'S SELECTION: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Winner of the Tanizaki Literary prize (the Japanese equivalent of the Pulitzer), by acclaimed young Japanese novelist Murakami: a stunning combination of the contemporary and brash with elegiac allegory, all topped off by a strong measure of cyberpunk. The ``hard-boiled'' hero, 35 and divorced, is a man of possessions--a collection of imported whiskeys; interests--old American movies and cooking; but no emotions. Which, coupled with his brilliant work on computers, makes him the ideal candidate for a mysterious aging scientist holed up under the sewers of Tokyo. Here, protected by a waterfall and by flesh-devouring creatures, the INKlings, from the two competing information organizations that control everything in the country, the scientist has devised a perfect secret code by operating on the brains of selected computer workers. The hero, summoned to the scientist's lair, is presented with a unicorn's skull and told of a project called ``The End of the World.'' Alternating between these encounters with the scientist, the scientist's granddaughter, and bully-boys bent on finding out what he knows, there is the story of the ancient walled town at the end of the world. In this home of one-horned beasts, a young man arrives, is separated from his shadow, and is set to work interpreting the dreams of the skulls in the library. The two worlds increasingly connect and at the end fuse, with the hero, though certifiably dead, for the first time morally and emotionally alive and resistant to the society's pervasive control of the individual. One of those rare postmodern novels that is as intellectually profound as stylistically accomplished, by a writer with a bold and original vision. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP.

Comments

[yosuke]

MY MOM PACKED UP MY COPY AND MAILED IT OFF ALREADY.... I WON'T GET IT BACK UNTIL JUNE 4TH

MOTHER WHY DO YOU DO THIS

/buys another copy...

[theory]

WHERE DID SHE MAIL IT TO ;LAKJSF

[yosuke]

CALIFORNIA.... LMFAO ;;

[theory]

BUT...WHY.......

Oh btdubs. Do you want to handle next month's rotation so I'm not taking up the entire spotlight?

[yosuke]

WE'RE MOVING THERE AFTER SCHOOL ENDS SO SHE SENT THE STUFF THERE BEFOREHAND.. ;lajlajasf it's ok i'll just find a .pdf of it on the internet, it should be fine because i own a copy of the book.. B|

o-oh okay! i'll just copy what you do, since i really have no idea how to handle this stuff.. LMAO /bad mod ;;

[theory]

OH OH I...feel like I should have known that.

It's all good. I'm sure people are getting tired of seeing my ugly face all the time. B)b♥

[yosuke]

LMAO it's okay... 8) /strokes. i've mostly shut up about it now anyway so jakjdfda

I LOVE SEEING YOUR FACE... you know what you're doing and i'm just standing here going "hurrrr" ;__;

[theory]

ACTUALLY lmfao I'm making everything up as I go along...but it seems to be working, so I figure it's a good-enough system. 8')b

[yosuke]

LMAO oh... but it looks so good ;; /admires..

[ex_haiku513]

LMAO THIS BOOK o///////o

ANNAY ARE YOU ON A HARUKI MURAKAMI ROLL

[theory]

IT'S NOT MY FAULT
THIS BOOK WON THE MOST VOTES EVERYONE IS ON A MURAKAMI BARREL ROLL

[ex_haiku513]

WILL NORWEGIAN WOOD BE NEXT :}

[theory]

IF /SOMEONE/ NOMINATES IT AND PEOPLE VOTE FOR IT, THEN YES. ♥

[ex_haiku513]

NOMINATING :}

[ex_cult688]

i need to... BUY IT........ T_T_T_T_T

[dominic]

what's good is i totally own this book and haven't read it yet! NOW IS THE TIME.

Hello my friends!

[(Anonymous)]

Hello my friends!