Monthly Archives: February 2005

#5: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami)

As with all the best books, this book was a gift. A bifurcated story that slowly comes together, HBWatEotW is one of those books that is almost impossible to describe. I’ve only read one other Murakami– Sputnik Sweetheart– and it … Continue reading

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#4: Cugel’s Saga (Jack Vance)

This and Eyes of the Overworld may as well have been halves of the same novel (perhaps called There and Back and There and Back Again?). Cugel travels a very long way to get home yet again, via a much … Continue reading

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