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Type: fiction

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Status: favorite

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Author: Haruki Murakami

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Tags: fantasy mystery surreal japanese strange translated random minimalistic

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Description: "
Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears,"
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." ~Amazon Summary

Murakami's most famous masterpiece, with consistently interesting looks into the human psyche...

2007-12-18

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Type: fiction

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Status: on hold

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Author: Bret Easton Ellis

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Tags: thriller 80s psychological pop-culture yuppies homicide

2007-12-18

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Aldous Huxley

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Tags: distopia drugs communism society community experimental eugenics

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Description: ""Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian""Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come."...

2007-12-18