Book Review: Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami

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An old man who talks to cats vs. a whiskey-drinking cat-killer named Johnny Walker, and a teenager named Kafka who runs away to live in a library and talks to a voice in his head named Crow. WTF, it's Haruki Murakami.

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Recommendations for where to find Japanese fairy tales? Growing up on a diet of folktales from a number of cultures, both familial and extrinsic, has instilled in me a deep and abiding love for the genre.

Japanese fairy tales

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Oh, I read a bunch as a kid but I can't remember all the sources. However, one book I still have on my shelf which is a very good collection of them is Japanese Tales (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) translated by Royall Tyler.

Re: Japanese fairy tales

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Well, that's going on my reading list... :p