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In The Miso Soup

By Ryu Murakami

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| Hardcover | 9780747574057

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From postmodern Renaissance man Ryu Murakami, master of the psychothriller and director of Tokyo Decadence, comes this hair-raising roller-coaster ride through the nefarious neon-lit world of Tokyo’s sex industry. In the Miso Soup tells of Frank, an overweight American tourist wContinue

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In the Miso Soup

In the Miso Soup Ryu Murakami Penguin Paperback 224 pages March 2006 The common element among miso soup, blood, and semen is the taste of salt. All three share the qualities of the wet and the sticky—and the sexual connotations of wet, sticky blood a ... (read full critics)

curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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Very well written. I like the style very much while I dislike the subject. You need to be used to the setting and all the terms related with sex-porn, murdering speaking etc. You can probably be disgusted by some details. However if you can endure them, this book can reveal its beauty.

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Mallo said on Mar 18, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

two reasons why I liked this book: 1) It's original, clever and packs a good punch in very few pages. 2) it's the first book I ever read on a Kindle. Now, I am obsessive about collecting books, but the house can't take them anymore. So I decided to use the Kindle as a safety valve. Well, I am very i ... (continue)

two reasons why I liked this book: 1) It's original, clever and packs a good punch in very few pages. 2) it's the first book I ever read on a Kindle. Now, I am obsessive about collecting books, but the house can't take them anymore. So I decided to use the Kindle as a safety valve. Well, I am very impressed. I found readability to be excellent, and I haven't missed holding a real book as much as I thought I would. Plus I have just bought Dickens' opera omnia for under £3! Now all I need is the rest of my life to read it...

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LFrig said on Oct 11, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback