Nervous_Dog Posted February 5, 2007 Report Share Posted February 5, 2007 OK - 3 way thai! SO Choose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted February 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2007 Guys - who ever nominated these books, a small bio on each would be good DOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian2 Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 Dog, just got told I'd already voted in the poll, which I hadn't, only the original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLeakHunt Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" Hunter S Thompson recently deceased anti government gun lobbying mysogenist takes us on a psychedelic psychotic rampage through 1970's America in search of the American Dream. Thinly disguised as a journalist Dr Thompson along with his legal adviser raise hell at sporting fixtures, police conferences and casinos whilst expending their expense account and bending their perception. Even Fiery Jack would balk at their excess as they consume a catalogue of candy. Fantastically well written and disarmingly accurate if you've never taken drugs at least you know what it feels like when you've read this. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted February 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 Julien can you PM KS and let him know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian2 Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 Lonesome Dove is one of the great American novels; a Pulitzer prize winner it's the consummate Western. The great days of exploration and settlement are over and two former law enforcement officers set off on a last adventure. In the process they come across some of the famous figures of the old West and the bad guys they meet are truly evil, no mamby pamby mummies boys here. A book not to be put down till the last page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 Amazon.co.uk review of Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami: Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician. Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami's earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century. If it were possible to isolate one theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle that theme would be responsibility. The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature. If Toru is supposed to be a Japanese Everyman, steeped as he is in Western popular culture and ignorant of the secret history of his own nation, this novel paints a bleak picture. Like the winding up of the titular bird, Murakami slowly twists the gossamer threads of his story into something of considerable weight. -- Simon Leake, Amazon.com +++++++ I am a big Murakami fan. Cheers, SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted February 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 OK for those who want to discuss, the novel is Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami I hope towards the nd of the month we can begin to discuss DOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLeakHunt Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Where can I buy a copy ? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted February 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Emporium - the Japanese book store has them I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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