Comments on: Books Read, November 2005

By: Tanuki

Tanuki — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:17:23 +0000

You’re welcome. It became obvious when I did an Amazon search on the book.

And he’s such a brilliant writer when it comes to those poor, orphaned Baudelaires and their unspeakable trials and tribulations! Well, perhaps he’s brilliant in Watch Your Mouth, too, but it just sounds like such uncomfortable reading.

By: tangognat

tangognat — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 23:29:11 +0000

Whoops, thanks for catching that. I kept reading that book thinking of passages that deserved to be nominated for the bad sex award.

By: Tanuki

Tanuki — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:59:48 +0000

Handler’s title isn’t quite so blunt — it’s Watch Your mouth. And thanks for the warning, I’d been considering getting this one, but probably won’t.

By: tangognat

tangognat — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:39:03 +0000

I haven’t read The Basic Eight, but maybe I’ll try it.

I’m not sure - I tend to like Murakami in general. I do think that the characters in Kafka on the Shore were more fully realized than some of the characters that appear in his novels.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:27:50 +0000

Have you read Handler’s The Basic Eight? I enjoyed that one, which is about media frenzy and teenaged jadedness but what I’ve seen so far about Shut Your Mouth didn’t sound so interesting.

Would you recommend Kafka on the Shore to someone who really enjoyed The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, but found everything else he’s sampled of Murakami (Wild Sheep Chase, Hard Boiled Wonderland) to be comparatively underwhelming?