Re: the aesthetics of ugliness was: antw. light summer reading

>Murakami, Ryu.  Almost Transparent Blue.
>   Trans. Nancy Andrew.  New York: Kodansha, 1989
>
>http://www.thejapanpage.com/html/book_directory/Detailed/238.shtml
>
>(Clockwork Orange + Trainspotting) x Japanese = ...
>
>Not to be confused with Haruki Murakami (Hard-Boiled
>Wonderland ..., The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, et al.),
>who might, however, be of even greater interest ...
>

reading the great wind up bird chronicle for the third time right now.  when
i worked in a book store, it was my favorite book to recomend to people.
that and catcher in the rye to parents who asked me what book their child
would like.