I haven't seen anything like this so I thought I would start one. You can post anything about books, reviews, opinions, recommendations, releases, etc. But PLEASE, PLEASE post a spoiler warning if you even think you might be spilling too much
I have recently gotten back into reading for pleasure after having to read the three theban plays for a class which I LOVED (dorky i know) and it reminded me how much I used to like reading up until having horrible books shoved down my throat in highschool. Most of what I have been into recently have been translated modern japanese literature, some of them are just as crazy and out there as alot of japanese films.
Recently read (ill rate them out of 5, 5 being good and im a harsh rater):
Audrey Hepburns Neck by Alan Brown 3/5
South of the Boarder, West of the sun by haruki murakami-3/5
The Togakushi Legend Murders by Yasuo Uchida-3.5/5
Reading: 69 by Ryu Murakami-Was reviewed by a weekly magazine and it sounded interesting. Im about half way threw the second chapter and it seems pretty good so far.
Here is the (summed up) description from Metropolis magazine:
Ryu Murakami's first novel, the Akutagawa Prize-winning Almost transparent blue, featured Japanese heroines sodomized by American GIs, so you'd be forgiven for guessing that the title of his new book refers to a particular sexual position. In reality "69" is the date the novel's hero was a highschool senior in a small city in Kyushu. "Ninteen-sixty-nine," the novel begins, "was the year student uprisings shut down Tokyo University, The beatles put out The white album, Yellow submarine, and Abbey road...and people known as hippies wore their hair long and called for love and prace....the war in vietman continued." 69 is considered as a "roman a clef" and since the author was born in sasebo in 1952 he, like the narrater Kensuke Yazaki, would have been a 17year old highschool senior in a small Kyushu city near an american military base in 1969. In 69 Yazaki is a charismatic figure in a typical prep school who manages the difficult task of uniting various student cliques-The hoodlums, nerds, political activists etc in a plot to barricade the school to protest against the war in vietman, but Yazaki has another motive, to become admited by class beauty of a nearby school. On the night of the event naturally things get out of hand...
(the rest i feel gives too much info away) When I finish the book ill make another post.
Want to read: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress- By Heinlein. My friend recommended it, has anyone hear read it...I heard Heinlein is also kind of hit or miss...
I have recently gotten back into reading for pleasure after having to read the three theban plays for a class which I LOVED (dorky i know) and it reminded me how much I used to like reading up until having horrible books shoved down my throat in highschool. Most of what I have been into recently have been translated modern japanese literature, some of them are just as crazy and out there as alot of japanese films.
Recently read (ill rate them out of 5, 5 being good and im a harsh rater):
Audrey Hepburns Neck by Alan Brown 3/5
South of the Boarder, West of the sun by haruki murakami-3/5
The Togakushi Legend Murders by Yasuo Uchida-3.5/5
Reading: 69 by Ryu Murakami-Was reviewed by a weekly magazine and it sounded interesting. Im about half way threw the second chapter and it seems pretty good so far.
Here is the (summed up) description from Metropolis magazine:
Ryu Murakami's first novel, the Akutagawa Prize-winning Almost transparent blue, featured Japanese heroines sodomized by American GIs, so you'd be forgiven for guessing that the title of his new book refers to a particular sexual position. In reality "69" is the date the novel's hero was a highschool senior in a small city in Kyushu. "Ninteen-sixty-nine," the novel begins, "was the year student uprisings shut down Tokyo University, The beatles put out The white album, Yellow submarine, and Abbey road...and people known as hippies wore their hair long and called for love and prace....the war in vietman continued." 69 is considered as a "roman a clef" and since the author was born in sasebo in 1952 he, like the narrater Kensuke Yazaki, would have been a 17year old highschool senior in a small Kyushu city near an american military base in 1969. In 69 Yazaki is a charismatic figure in a typical prep school who manages the difficult task of uniting various student cliques-The hoodlums, nerds, political activists etc in a plot to barricade the school to protest against the war in vietman, but Yazaki has another motive, to become admited by class beauty of a nearby school. On the night of the event naturally things get out of hand...
(the rest i feel gives too much info away) When I finish the book ill make another post.
Want to read: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress- By Heinlein. My friend recommended it, has anyone hear read it...I heard Heinlein is also kind of hit or miss...