A story about "Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa" — 2 years ago
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I just started this. So excited.
Items shaxxon consumed in…
February, 2006
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Thursday 2
Started consuming…Sliders - The First and Second Seasons — 27 people
Started consuming…White Teeth — 814 people
Started consuming…Drown — 12 people
Started consuming…Sock — 15 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World — 149 people
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Monday 6
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Wednesday 8
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Bend It Like Beckham (Widescreen Edition) — 1225 people
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Everything Is Illuminated — 507 people
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Wednesday 15
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Why I recommend "Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa" — 2 years ago
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If you are passionate about Japan, or just mildly curious—this is a great book. The writer carefully documents her mistakes as well as her triumphs(Trust me there are more mistakes)as she journeys into Japan in search of Wa (Harmony). The reader really gets to experience the struggles of getting to know a new land, trying to understand the complexities of Japan and Japanese culture and hiearchy, and in the end, are reborn—inspired—and a little touched by how human the writer is. I was impressed at how candid she was, and though it wasn’t the best piece of writing, it has soul and a realness to it. The writer has a human voice, one we don’t hear to often in daily clutter.
There are some fantastic revelations about the Japanese, and in the end she comes to an understanding about how they’ve come to be the way they are, and the beauty in the masks they wear. It is a soulful yet human journey into the mysterious world of what it means to be a good Japanese.
A story about "Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel" — 2 years ago
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This book blew me away, I love how one story is actually like four separate stories, and even more than that 100,000 stories all in one.
Highly stylized, hilarious and ultimately tragic and illuminating—this book is actually three stories entagled, which in the end is one great big story. Triumph can not exist without tragety. The hero, Jonathan travels to the Ukraine with a translator with badly butchered English to find the woman who may have saved his Jewish grandfather from the Nazis. What occurs is the trials and misunderstandings of three travelers (and a dog) in search for answers that may or may not ever come. What is actually illuminated may surprise you.
Murakami you've done it again! — 2 years ago
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This journey through the subconsciousness is highly inventive and evocative. The book starts off in a jarring fashion, but too soon all begins to unfold. I would recommend it to each one of you. The last few chapters are intense, life-changing, and all-consumingly brilliant.
