I used to be really into Haruki Murakami in high school but I sort of grew out of it too. My favorites of his are probably Hard Boiled Wonderland... and Dance Dance Dance. I remember thinking Wind-Up Bird was great until about the last 100 or so pages. Also: I have had After Virtue sitting on my bookshelf for over a year, should I get to reading it?
I think Dance Dance Dance and Wind Up Bird were the best I read. I think his longer books are better because they can bring together a greater volume of stories and episodes that start to congeal into a kind of myth-like or fairy-tale-like narrative that has a message or a character of its own. The short ones just seem pointless and incoherent.
After Virtue is good; Personally, I read it because I was constantly seeing allusions and references to MacIntyre that made me curious. It was a bit difficult to get through, since all of my background in philosophy is amateur. It's pretty influential for theology too (like Hauerwas).
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After Virtue is good; Personally, I read it because I was constantly seeing allusions and references to MacIntyre that made me curious. It was a bit difficult to get through, since all of my background in philosophy is amateur. It's pretty influential for theology too (like Hauerwas).
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