by Ryū Murakami, Ralph McCarthy
I am not having good luck with Japanese literature this year. Let me back track. At the beginning of this year, I said that I was going to read more of Japanese literature. I love Japan, Its culture, language, history, and literature have fascinated me since I was five-years-old. But even though ...
I had seen the film before I read the book.Both are as good as each other, although I think maybe some people might be disappointed if they watch the film first then read the book and vice versa. However for me, since I have a very vivid imagination, I could picture the film in my head while I was r...
Disturbing, twisted story.
this is a brilliant brilliant work so far beyond the understanding of ordinary americans that i am happy it has the 3.41 rating it currently does.what a hidden work of genius.rip it to pieces, hoi polloi!
This book lacks all the suspense found in the movie.
Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn’t dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife, Ryoko. Now, even his teenage son Shige has suggested he think about remarrying. So when his best friend Yoshikawa comes up with a plan to hold fake film auditions so that Aoyama can choose a new brid...
It's the age old story, you meet a charming, beautiful, cultured woman, fall madly in love and think it is all going so perfectly - only for her to suddenly turn into a psycho nut job intent on murdering you most horribly. Happens to us all. This is a book on which the horrific film of the same name...
I read a lot of horror but Ryu Murakami is one of the few writers that actually scare the hell out of me...not just his books but the actual person. His gift is in writing characters you care about and then exposes them as a horrifying nightmare. In fact they rarely appear evil until the last part ...
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