 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. This is going to be a series I'm gonna be going through Heruki Minakami's books one by one Today we're talking about two books, but only because they they come packaged that way I have no way of getting a hold of the original translations of the original versions I haven't even found any on eBay, but we're talking about wind Here the wind sing and pinball 1978. I want to say let's go ahead and jump in Yeah, no 1973 so here the wind sing and pinball 1973 Heruki Minakami himself has said that he's not fond of These books especially not their English Translations that were published of course very early on in his career even the covers are kind of terrible From what I've seen this one's pretty nice. It's a nice. It's actually the only other than the new killing commandant Tori It's the only hardcover. I own of his which is unfortunate, but his books are expensive Especially the older stuff, but this one the first Book here the wind sing. I don't remember much about Period it was a very bland story. I must I must also I Must also interrupt myself here and kind of preface this review with this author is fantastic He is my favorite author Right below Stephen King Yeah, I buy everything he he publishes and the e-book paper paper and audio This is not a good start The and he understand that you know people grow over time and that's exactly The whole reason why I bought this knowing he didn't like it the whole reason I bought it was to see where he had come from now These are new translations, so there's no telling how terrible the old translations are But I know he's not happy with them the first one I see nothing of the heruki Minakami that have come to love over time Whereas with pinball 1973 the second short novel in here I would say they're both novellas by American standards. I mean both books together are 233 pages and it's pretty big pretty big type there There but there but anyways The second one is better in that you feel that that sense of dislocation That you get with Mirakami so often Like in books with what is it the one hard-boiled wonderland at the end of the world something like that? His titles throw me off sometimes One cue eight four and we'll get to all those but there's a sense of dislocation that you read with that You get when you read his stuff and that's my favorite part of reading his books But pinball you start Right at the end as the book is coming to a close you start to feel that Mirakami that that everybody I feel everybody has come to know and love I would I don't review this book very highly. I think I give it a total of two stars That's because one star for the terrible first book and then three stars for the mediocre second book There's not too much of a reason to read this one If you were going to start with Haruki Mirakami, I highly recommend you start with after dark My friend Gregor told me that's where I should start. It is his shortest quickest read And it definitely try that out before you jump into something like one cue eight four or the wind up bird chronicles Those but well wind up bird chronicles is like 700 pages long and one cue eight four is his like magnum opus at Over a thousand pages. I think it's like a 11 120 pages Anyways, but check out after dark. It's one of his newer books And I feel that it is a perfect starting place for anybody who wants to try Haruki Mirakami So if you get into that book and you're like This is weird and I need to step away from it. Trust me. You will not like anything this guy publishes except for maybe Norwegian would but we'll talk about that more when we get there But until next time I have been a you've been you this been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye