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Post by nutsberryfarm ๐ on Jul 20, 2021 17:55:39 GMT
any personal favs? heard good things about this one...
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jul 20, 2021 20:40:58 GMT
I think the only two that I've read are by Murakami โ The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and 1Q84. I liked both of them, even though 1Q84 has some really weird (and not in a good sense!) elements.
I remember reading positive things about Japanese crime novels and being interested in checking it out. I may even have bought one or two in e-book format, but I havenโt read them yet.
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Post by Marv on Jul 22, 2021 3:39:59 GMT
Battle Royale by Koushun TakamiโฆYou may have seen the movieโฆabout a class of high school kids abducted into the yearly government program which puts them in a fight to the death against each other on an uninhabited island. The book is great. I read it twice years ago and had no problem with translation or anything. Thereโs also a class list at the front that works as an index if you arenโt quick to remember Japanese names. Helped with keeping characters in order. A definite recommend.
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Post by nutsberryfarm ๐ on Jul 22, 2021 13:24:09 GMT
Battle Royale by Koushun TakamiโฆYou may have seen the movieโฆabout a class of high school kids abducted into the yearly government program which puts them in a fight to the death against each other on an uninhabited island. The book is great. I read it twice years ago and had no problem with translation or anything. Thereโs also a class list at the front that works as an index if you arenโt quick to remember Japanese names. Helped with keeping characters in order. A definite recommend. thanks!
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Post by nutsberryfarm ๐ on Jul 22, 2021 13:25:25 GMT
I think the only two that I've read are by Murakami โ The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and 1Q84. I liked both of them, even though 1Q84 has some really weird (and not in a good sense!) elements. I remember reading positive things about Japanese crime novels and being interested in checking it out. I may even have bought one or two in e-book format, but I havenโt read them yet. this was a pretty wild read:
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 22, 2021 17:33:56 GMT
As a lifelong mystery reader, when I learned the Japan had a long history of detective fiction I was very interested but had trouble finding anything in English translation. My first discovery was a novel by Seichล Matsumoto (1909-1992) called โPoints and Linesโ back in the โ70s. It was an excellent puzzle with a police detective certain that a rich business man had committed a murder even though he had a solid alibi that he was hundreds of miles away when the crime happened. Just in the last week or so I discovered that a film had been made from โPoints and Lines.โ It is called โTen To Senโ and is available for free download from Rare Film โ a safe site. Iโve not seen it as yet. It has a user rating of 7 at the database with 70 votes. Still later, I ran across a couple of superb โlocked roomโ or otherwise โimpossibleโ murder mysteries. They are The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi and The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada and are worthy of John Dickson Carr ( Nalkarj , take note).
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Post by nutsberryfarm ๐ on Aug 22, 2021 22:37:00 GMT
As a lifelong mystery reader, when I learned the Japan had a long history of detective fiction I was very interested but had trouble finding anything in English translation. My first discovery was a novel by Seichล Matsumoto (1909-1992) called โPoints and Linesโ back in the โ70s. It was an excellent puzzle with a police detective certain that a rich business man had committed a murder even though he had a solid alibi that he was hundreds of miles away when the crime happened. Just in the last week or so I discovered that a film had been made from โPoints and Lines.โ It is called โTen To Senโ and is available for free download from Rare Film โ a safe site. Iโve not seen it as yet. It has a user rating of 7 at the database with 70 votes. Still later, I ran across a couple of superb โlocked roomโ or otherwise โimpossibleโ murder mysteries.ย They are The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi and The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada and are worthy of John Dickson Carrย ( Nalkarj , take note). Looking like they have these authors at my local library ๐! Thanks!
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Aug 23, 2021 17:03:28 GMT
The only Japanese novel i have read is The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Its a decent book.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 23, 2021 20:16:24 GMT
The only Japanese novel i have read is The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu Its a decent book. Is that THE Tale of Genji, from over a thousand years ago, or some modern retelling by the same name?
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Aug 23, 2021 21:38:17 GMT
The only Japanese novel i have read is The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu Its a decent book. Is that THE Tale of Genji, from over a thousand years ago, or some modern retelling by the same name? Its the tale of Genji from over a thousand years ago.
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Post by Marv on Aug 23, 2021 23:27:11 GMT
Battle Royale by Koushun TakamiโฆYou may have seen the movieโฆabout a class of high school kids abducted into the yearly government program which puts them in a fight to the death against each other on an uninhabited island. The book is great. I read it twice years ago and had no problem with translation or anything. Thereโs also a class list at the front that works as an index if you arenโt quick to remember Japanese names. Helped with keeping characters in order. A definite recommend.
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Post by nutsberryfarm ๐ on Sept 8, 2021 3:02:48 GMT
Any others?
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Post by Ass_E9 on Sept 8, 2021 17:07:28 GMT
Compact (216 pages, but contained within 5x8 inches), dreampoppy thriller of a woman engrossed with the title character's life. For me, what transpires was open to more than one interpretation.
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Post by mrdanwest on Sept 9, 2021 20:35:34 GMT
The Woman in the Dune - by Kobo Abe The Box Man - also by Kobo Abe
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Post by Ass_E9 on Sept 10, 2021 0:17:20 GMT
The cover did not prepare me for what transpires in the novel. Feels like an literary cousin to films like Takashi Miike's Audition.
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Post by needysboy on Sept 10, 2021 21:31:55 GMT
Two of my favorites are A Wild Sheep Chase and The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami.
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Post by nutsberryfarm ๐ on Sept 15, 2021 1:42:32 GMT
Compact (216 pages, but contained within 5x8 inches), dreampoppy thriller of a woman engrossed with the title character's life. For me, what transpires was open to more than one interpretation. Heard good things about this!๐ค
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Post by nutsberryfarm ๐ on Sept 25, 2021 9:05:41 GMT
Yukio Mishima "Forbidden Colors" is a great book.
It's the story of an old man who seeks to get revenge on women by hiring a gay male prostitute to court them and then make their lives miserable.
Sounds interesting!
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