Hear the Wind Sing

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• humanarity · Apr 9, 2015 · Recommends

  …Alchemist - help you read the signs from the heart of the World for your own path An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, et al (T. Suzuki) - really interesting, non-duality, higher third unification of opposites Hear the Wind Sing (Murakami) - really bizarre and pure, his first one written late nights at kitchen table after working in a bar, before he became famous Rich Dad Poor Dad - solid advice Discrete Maths (Rosen) - interesting…

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• 1arity · Aug 14, 2015 · Recommends

  Stick with Murakami, he's pretty much absorbed the entire Western canon and now left us with his charming "shuffling" of it. Hopefully you also read Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball 1973. They were his first two and recently reprinted ( this month, August 2015 ) in English.

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• graderjs · May 4, 2023 · Recommends

  …conflicts that must need to happen to give rise to someone like that". For some reason, I've always remembered it. Also, I recommend getting hands on the very early (and short) English translations of, "Hear the Wind Sing", and "Pinball 1973" -- just really strange, bizarre and cool. Like a distilled pure essence of all his works to come, but these were (I think) his first two. You can sort of see all his themes, style…

  on “Disappearing Act: The working life of Haruki Murakami” ↗
• oska · Aug 2, 2015 · Mentions

  …but it was around that. Was happy to sell it for that and still happy now. I doubt it's appreciated in value since then but I could be wrong. Anyway, it appears from this article that Pinball, 1973 and Hear the wind sing are now finally being published in a generally distributed edition. I'm a little bit surprised because it was my understanding that Murakami thought they were early, weaker works and wasn't particularly…

  on “Haruki Murakami: The Moment I Became a Novelist” ↗
• graderjs · Dec 29, 2020 · Mentions

  …early 2003 and just randomly looking for the shortest thing I could possibly read and this story got me hooked on Murakami. and then I think after reading that short story book the next thing I read was "hear the wind sing", his original short novel. And then "pinball 1973" and then I think "Norwegian Wood." I like his sort of loose universe how similar characters and types of characters and tropes kind of return but the…

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• transitorykris · Dec 22, 2016 · Mentions

  Fiction: Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami (I love Murakami’s novels, recommend starting with Hard Boiled Wonderland though) Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball - Haruki Murakami The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammet (Surprising just how much San Francisco is in it) The Postman Always Rings Twice - James Cain Seveneves - Neal Stephenson (recommended)…

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• keepamovin · Aug 19, 2023 · Mentions

  …think) floors. "Buzzing with knowledge and light" as someone said back on campus many years ago. Very cool place to just go hang out. It was where I first discovered some old worn copies of Murakami "Hear the Wind Sing" and "Pinball 1973" in English. Only place I've ever seen them in fact.

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• elihu · Nov 9, 2022 · Mentions

  …describes it at one point as an “unadorned natural style”, but one that was arrived at in characteristically unorthodox fashion: having failed dismally on his first attempt to write what would become Hear the Wind Sing, he began again from scratch, writing not in his native Japanese, but English. “My vocabulary was severely limited, as was my command of English syntax,” he writes, and yet when he translated his words…

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• mooseburger · Jan 19, 2018 · Mentions

  …"Before that", he said, "I didn't write anything. I was just one of those ordinary people. I was running a jazz club, and I didn't create anything at all."[20] He was inspired to write his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing (1979), while watching a baseball game."

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• wanderer2323 · Sep 10, 2020 · Mentions

  …understanding the real structure of the novel. While an example of a structurally meaningful cross-reference escapes me at the moment, I do remember a different example of a structural clue. It occurs in the 'Hear the Wind Sing', the first book of the Sheep Trilogy, which ends in the much-recommended 'A Wild Sheep Chase' (technically it was later followed with a 4th book in 'Dance, Dance, Dance' so it's a 4-book trilogy). In…

  on “The Intricate Translation Process for a Murakami Novel” ↗