Books

[Chunli]

Asriel said:
Nice idea. I recently finished an MA in English Literature, so I have been reading a lot. Good to see some Tolkien/George Martin fans, my MA thesis was a comparative study of a Song of Ice and Fire and Lord of the Rings, focusing around colour coding, race, and physical appearance.

I got a kindle for Christmas, along with a lot of Amazon vouchers, which has really upped my reading rate again and since Christmas I've read A Christmas Carol (Dickens), Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy), The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Escaped (Jonas Jonasson), Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, South of the Border West of the Sun, Kafka on the Shore, and A Wild Sheep Chase (all Haruki Murakami).

I'd highly recommend Murakami, I think he's brilliant. I'm becoming quite addicted to his novels. I'd start with his more naturalistic books like Norwegian Wood and South of the Border, before moving onto more surreal stuff like The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, A Wild Sheep Chase and Kafka on the Shore (my favourite so far). Hard-Boiled Wonderland was more surreal than those, and from what I've seen, there's plenty more in that vein.

I also got (and read) Firefly: A Celebration in the last month, which I'd highly recommend for any fans of that series. Original stories, the original shooting scripts, huge amounts of interviews and other tidbits, all in a beautifully presented book.

Tomorrow I'll be receiving Hyrule Historia, so I'll be giving that a read while I continue my first ever play-through of The Legend of Zelda, before moving onto Adventure of Link. I'm not sure what I'll be reading after that, but I have stuff like Life of Pi and The Millenium Trilogy on my Kindle (anyone read those?) as well as a thirty book long Kindle wishlist to dig into!

OHHH!!!! Murakami is awesome!! 
I read 1Q84 and loved it but I was so dissapointed in the ending. So many things were left unexplained. Like the "Little People" etc.

I read Norwegian Wood and loved it too but not as much as 1Q84. I just felt that Book 3 in 1Q84 was so rushed and urgggh..if only things were explained much better.