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I have read 1Q84, and yours is the only response so far that mentions this book. It was a fascinating book.

While "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki" is more anime-like, I found "Hard Boiled Wonderland" very full of (unpronounced) deep and profound thoughts.

I found "Sputnik Sweetheart" to be the most original work of art by him.

I am yet to read "Kafka on the Shore", "Wind Up Bird Chronicle", and some of the others.

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"Hard Boiled Wonderland" was the first book of his that I read. It's one of those rare books that while reading it, I find its bizarre concepts leaking into my concept of reality.

Other books that have done that for me include Julian Jaynes' "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" (Conversations continued in my head with the distinct voices of the people I had been speaking to!) and Dave Hutchinson's "Fractured Europe Sequence" series (Wandering through Vondelpark I keep expecting to turn a corner and emerge into another dimension!).

I have to read "Hard Boiled Wonderland" again because I can't remember what it leaked into my reality! :)

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