Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Thankyou booktribes for sending me to this book. I think it is now at the very top of my favourites list. It's just utterly wonderful, driving you through it with wit, incredible imagination, brilliant pace, mystery, fun, playfulness, utter horror and superb plotting. How can you get all of this into one book? Read it and find out. You will not be disappointed.

Amazing, i found myself lost in it for a long time. His stories within stories are worth the book alone. bravo.

This is my favourite Murakami book, and one of my favourite books ever. It's a beautiful story, and Murakami manages to make you feel a sort of familiar nostalgia, even when the story is at its most surreal.

this is my first murakami novel.could you recommend another please

This is reportedly his best - i've read a wild sheep chase and its sequel Dance dance dance, both of which i thoroughly enjoyed. Again the style is similar and the ideas are brilliant. they aren't quite as good as a wind-up bird chronicle but still excellent in their own right, littered with amazing characters. From talking to other Murakami readers i'm told kafka on the shore is his other best work. Enjoy

He's fabulous beyond belief. Ive not read this one yet, as I know that once I've started it'll be gone too quick and I'll never get to read it for the first time again. I loved Kafka on the Shore, it's beautiful.

A strange but powerful book, allusive and illusive. Murakami's images stay with you.

One of those great big books you can get lost in...

I've read all of Murakami's books (except Norweigan Wood) and this is my favourite. What's it about? No idea really. Toru's cat has gone missing, then his wife. He looks for the cat in the blind alley behind his house. He meets various other characters, he goes down a well.

Most brilliant are the sections about the Japanese war with China - the zoo massacre and the torturer (painful to read).

Murakami is amazingly inventive. This is wonderful stuff.