The Sword and Laser discussion

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...

Has anyone read it. How was it? Any similarities?

I haven't started Windup Girl yet but I doubt there are any similarities. I loved The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles. The way it was described to me before I read it was "David Lynch meets anime." So of course I had to pick it up. It's a very strange yet oddly moving book. It's not a very easy read but I would definitely recommend it to somebody who doesn't mind non-traditional storytelling.

I read it a long time ago. I definitely went through a Murakami phase!

I am still in a Murakami phase, although he and I are on a break until he can find at least SOMETHING optimistic to write about.

My favorite quotation from the Wind-Up Bird, which could easily slip into the Windup Girl:

"It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving. And every time the wind-up bird came to my yard to winds its spring, the world descended more deeply into chaos."

A few years back, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles started me on an intense Murakami bender and I enjoyed every minute of it in the strange way that one absorbs Murakami that is, especially A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance, Dance, Dance. Still, I was never able to get my hands on Hear the Wind Sing, or Pinball, 1973.

The only similarity I can see is the use of the word "windup" in the title. I really did like the Murakami though.