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Killing Commendatore
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 28 hrs and 27 mins
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A Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, Library Journal, LitHub, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84
In Killing Commendatore, a 30-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious 13-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist’s home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors.
A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art - as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby - Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.
“A spellbinding parable of art, history, and human loneliness.” (O, The Oprah Magazine)
“Expansive and intricate...touches on many of the themes familiar in Mr. Murakami’s novels: the mystery of romantic love, the weight of history, the transcendence of art, the search for elusive things just outside our grasp.” (The New York Times)
“Eccentric and intriguing, Killing Commendatore is the product of a singular imagination.... Murakami is a wiz at melding the mundane with the surreal.... He has a way of imbuing the supernatural with uncommon urgency. His placid narrative voice belies the utter strangeness of his plot.... The worldview of Murakami’s novels is consistent, and it’s invigorating. In this book and many that came before it, he urges us to embrace the unusual, accept the unpredictable." (San Francisco Chronicle)
“Exhilarating.... Only in the calm madness of his magical realism can Murakami truly capture one of his obsessions, the usually ineffable yearning that drives a person to make art.” (The Washington Post)
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Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.
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The definitive version!
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- Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
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The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.
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The actual book The Art of War, not a commentary
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Technically Speaking
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Oakland-bred LaVeesha “Vee” Gilliam (Coco Jones) is a determined single mother of an autistic son and a gifted aspiring coder. When Vee loses her job as a food-services worker at the onsite restaurant at Grapengine, a large Silicon Valley tech company, she’s unable to pay for her son’s much-needed specialized education. By a twist of fate, mistaken identity, and her tech skills, Vee meets Troy Wilson (Keith Powers), the company’s wealthy founder and CEO and a wunderkind in the tech industry, who believes that Vee is a college-educated techie who works at his company.
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Overdue Diverse Representation in Tech!
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As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio. From the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow to the tortured spirits of M.R. James, from Edgar Allan Poe’s terrifying tale of a doppelganger to Charlotte Riddell’s Open Door that should definitely stay shut, join Stephen as he tells you some truly terrifying tales.
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Wonderful narration. Mediocre stories.
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IS THAT NOT SO?
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As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.
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Who Else Laughed, Cried, and Shuddered?
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Frankenstein
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Narrator Dan Stevens ( Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.
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ARE WE ALWAYS TO BE UNHAPPY?
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The Strange Case
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Dr. Jekyll (Vanessa Kirby) is an elite international specialist in energy systems, working closely with her handler Louis (David Oyelowo) in a career that takes her across the globe to politically volatile territories such as Iran and North Korea. But when an arms dealer accuses her of having killed his family, Dr. Jekyll begins to question details of her life, who Louis really is, and whether her strange recurring dream has a greater meaning. She enlists the help of psychologist Sigrun (Sofie Gråbøl), and together they delve into Dr. Jekyll’s darker other side, a brutal assassin named… Hyde.
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Love the Originals !!
- By r2coder on 08-04-24
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The Cut
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Welcome to Barton Mallet, a remote village in the Midlands that has been chosen as the unlikely location for a new feature film from Hollywood producer Max Crow. Teenagers from the local drama group are encouraged to audition for a story about the trials and tribulations of growing up. Benjamin Knot, the CEO of a well-known architecture firm, discovers that his children, Lily and Nathan, have each been offered a role. But Barton Mallet has a deep wound that has never truly healed.
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Hard to get into
- By felicialeash on 09-15-24
By: Richard Armitage
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Sorry, but I didn't like the narrator.
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Listeners will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination. The story of a lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plotting their escape from a nightmarish library, the book is like nothing else Murakami has written.
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- annelise
- 08-08-19
use of time and space
As with his other books, Murakami brings interesting light into the vagaries of this world.
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- Max R
- 04-23-19
A long and winding story
of life love faith and everything in between. beautifully written. complicated like life itself. idealistic yet at the same time deeply moving and thought provoking.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-10-20
Good Story Mediocre Narration
As far as Murakami work goes, this one surely does not disappoint. One thing that is holding it back is the narration.
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- Spiritwolf
- 07-02-20
Not as good as his other works!
He didn't seem to pay as much attention to detail as he usually does. Some things weren't related to the story. It's an ok book, just not his normal level.
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- BigLagoonBill
- 02-24-19
Wonderful new Murakami Novel . . .
Interesting underlying story full of fantasy and lessons about Creativity, Ideas, and Human Emotions. Highly recommend.
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- Daniel Paris
- 10-26-20
Ultra detailed hyper realism
A fascinating and in depth book about a painter. This is my 8 or 9th murakami novel, and they are all this way. He really puts you there with all his descriptions. I imagined if this film would me a movie I cast George takei as mr manshiki in my mind. Sometimes it was a little misogynist and characters were a tad obsessed with breasts, that’s the only thing keeping me from recommending it to friends of mine who are women. I noticed many similarities to his other books including obsessions and people looking at other people (or other versions of
themselves) from a distance away with binoculars. It was neat that so much of this book described the process of painting and what goes through a creative persons mind and their struggles with making their own art and fulfilling commercial demand. I happened to work on hundreds of drawings and paintings for an animation project while I listened to this.
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- Suramericana
- 01-10-19
I LIKE IT
I had read almost all the books from Haruki Murakami, I love his style, his stories. I know that in almost all his books he has a mystery or phenomenon like cat taking, or passing to another dimension, or a personage from a picture to came to life, this books is not different. Haruki for me is an amazing writer.
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- stalucia
- 01-24-19
Tasting the first novel.
My first Haruki Murakami novel. Story seems simple yet bizarre. But realizing that the bizarre part is the deeper layer of the novel. There's layers to be peeled. Metaphorically, I would say that reading Mr Murakami novels is like trying a new food. you must develop a taste for it to have more of it. But they are good in deeper thought sense. Looking forward to the next Murakami novel.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-22-19
a masterpiece
enough said, It is a masterpiece..
what else should I say? just try it yourself.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-08-21
usual Murakami with unusual disappointment
very similar in style to his other works. this one however lacks resolution to a lot of the themes he had set up, waving them away as if a dream. pretty disappointed as a long time Murakami fan.
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