Furious Horses

Psst: Chris, you claim "1Q84" will be released in September next year, but it's actually not 'til 2011 -- I only iterate this, because when I heard that a professional English-language translation of a 1,000-paged novel written originally in "kanji" text was going to be released within a year of its formative Japanese publication, I had to express ... Read Morevoluntary & immediate shock and delight. However, it makes more sense that the first volume of the "supposed trilogy" would be released in Western bookselling countries come the end of 2011, because Murakami's apparently quite fastidious about the way in which the designated translators -- usually exclusively Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin -- reconfigure his economical writing stylistic for an English-speaking readership. Still, this is insanely exciting!

I've got just two years (!) to churn through everything else of his that remains yet to be read. I think I'm going to scroll straight back to the beginning, and secure myself a copy of "A Wild Sheep Chase".

Yes, Autumn 2011. My bad. I started with "Wild Sheep Chase" and it changed my life. Then read "Dance Dance Dance", it's sort of a sequel.

No... Really? This is like a Patricia Cornwell cover.

Isn't it mad?!