OK...I just finished Murakami's 1Q84. wow. I just loved it. Next Murakami.....

[NRaleighLiberal]

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Would love to hear anyone else's experience with this book. It is going to stay with me - I didn't want it to end.

Am part way through Kafka on the Shore. I really love this writer!

[fadedrose]

1. What's it about?

Sad, scary, exciting, funny, whodunnit, and what's the title stand for - It's not IQ, it's 1Q?

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. nearly impossible to describe.....but I will try a few sentences.

Takes place in 1984 - alternating chapters of the two main characters. The characters are likable and beautifully developed....some seriously weird stuff happens. There are elements of mystery, spirituality, religion, cults, love, death, romance. it is a long book and unfolds patiently, and it creates its own world.

I can't describe why the title is 1Q84 - really, anything beyond what I've said would be a spoiler!

[fadedrose]

3. Any specific "strain" of religion?

Don't want nothin trying to convert me

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. Nope - it really casts a negative light on fundamentalism and cults more than anything else.

[fadedrose]

5. Thanks, I put it on my request list...nt

[Curmudgeoness]

6. Too many books, too little time!

But I will take your word for it and add this to my list (although I am getting tired of all these long books that I seem to be drawn to lately).

[Warren Stupidity]

7. He has a bunch more and they are all different.

My current fiction addiction.

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. we loved At Night - my wife also liked Kafka on the Beach....we are getting more to read.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. Just updated my OP - travelling through Murakami continues with Kafka on the Shore.

I am about 1/4 of the way through and it is quite remarkable!

[Bonobo]

10. Try either Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World or

Wind-Up Bird Chronicles.

[NRaleighLiberal]

11. we sure will...thanks!

[Poiuyt]

12. If you've never read any Murakami before, what would be a good first novel to read?

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. Kafka on the Shore.