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Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World
by Haruki Murakami
from Vintage
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Thought provoking 
I have read this book both in English and Japanese. Although there's some intentional change, the translation is superb. The essence is never lost in translation.
This particular book is a bit different from his other books and I personally believe this is the best. It's more philosophical than your usual cyberpunk and it makes you think about your own life.
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Amazing book
I picked this book up at random at a book store. Something about the cover just caught my attention, and it seemed oddly familiar.
Over a year later, I finally picked it off my shelf and started reading. Initially, it read like a gritty detective novel. Then, I noticed hints of what felt like an early 80's Cyberpunk novel (which may be a result of it's original 1985 release).
This book is typical Murakami: a main character who thinks himself fairly ordinary, in whom other see something special.... more info
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another catching Murakami adventure
The story might seem a bit crazy first (a guy neurologically trained to shuffle experimental data, a professor who does research on sound-removal, and his lonely grown-up grandchild), but Murakami knows how to make it sound realistic and breadth-taking. On the other side the story tells about some of the problems of every-day people, not in a soap-opera style, but between the lines of saving the world.
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Another trip down the rabbit hole
As the fifth Murakami that I have read, this is my favorite. All of Murakami's works share elements such as having a 30something seemingly nondescript protagonist, an underage secondary love interest (the "girl in pink" in this case), frequent references to total darkness and subterranean existence, transfer to and from an alternate world, fast food, and nighttime Tokyo. "Hard Boiled Wonderland..." is a dystopic tale of an alternative near-future, reminiscent of some of Margaret Atwood's best or of... more info
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