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Fantastic realism I think they call it. Or
mystic concretism. Maybe trippy groundedness? However you classify
Murakami, this book certainly pushes the boundaries between
the waking and dream worlds. How else could a book contain an
appearance by Johnny Walker, Colonel Sanders, talking cats,
rainstorms that contain nothing but fish and leeches, and a
boy who is destined to kill his father and then sleep with both
his sister and mother? Throw in Murakami’s penchant for
mind-bending skull-fuckery and you have your typical journey
down the rabbit... more
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the hell do I know about books? Nothing and nada, but I do love
to read. Listen to me, or don't. It's up to you if you care
about literature and crap. Sit back and enjoy some seriously
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Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith |
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Being Dead by Jim Crace
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
Big If by Mark Costello
Black Dogs
by Ian McEwan
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Blindness by José Saramago
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
The Book of Dave by Will Self
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin
The Buzzing by Jim Knipfel |
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Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
Caught Stealing by Charlie Huston
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Christine
Falls by John Banville
The Coast of Akron by Adrienne Miller
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Cosmopolis by Don Delillo
Crossing California by Adam Langer
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Hadden
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Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
A Dangerous Man by Charlie Huston
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
The Diviners by Rick Moody
Dreamland by Kevin Baker |
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Empire Falls by Richard Russo
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Epileptic by David B.
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Falling
Man by Don DeLillo
A Field Guide to the Urban Hipster by Josh Aiello
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham
Flicker by Theodore Roszak
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Freakonomics by Stephen D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Fury by Salman Rushdie |
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Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
The God of Small Things by Arundhhati Roy
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Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Honeymooners by Chuck Kinder
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
How Soon is Never? by Marc Spitz
How the Dead Live by Will Self
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow |
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The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
If
on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
The
Illustrated Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
The
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
It's Superman!
by Tom De Haven |
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Jimmy
Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
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Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami
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Letter
to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
Life of Pi by Yan Martel
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby |
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Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss
Matchstick Men by Eric Garcia
McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories edited by Michael Chabon
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales edited by Michael Chabon
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Volume 13 edited by Chris Ware
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Volume 14 edited by David Eggers
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Volume 15 edited by David Eggers
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Volume 16 edited by David Eggers
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon |
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The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff
Number9Dream
by David Mitchell |
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Oh the Glory of it All by Sean Wilsey
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
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Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Purple America by Rick Moody |
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Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Hustler by Ethan Brown |
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Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs |
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A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
The Sea by John Banville
Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
Six Bad Things by Charlie Huston
Soon
I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
Stet by James Chapman
Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen |
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That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
Theft by Peter Carey
A Thing (Or Two) About Curtis and Camilla by Nick Fowler
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Tuff by Paul Beatty
The Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen |
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Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry |
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Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre |
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What Is the What by Dave Eggers
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
The World to Come by Dara Horn |
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Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers |
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Zeroville by Steve Erickson
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