From my list on dark horror stories that slowly unravel their mysteries piece by piece, letting you figure out along the way.
Why am I passionate about this?
I’ve always loved a good mystery that doesn’t give you all the details upfront. My favourite stories growing up were those where I had little epiphanies along the way until I got to the end, where everything finally fell into place. But perhaps why I’m most drawn to these types of stories is because they parallel learning about your surroundings in the real world. After living in several different countries, I’ve come to learn many situations piece by piece, where some ended in danger, while others were more humorous events that I can now laugh about.
Jon's book list on dark horror stories that slowly unravel their mysteries piece by piece, letting you figure out along the way
Why did Jon love this book?
I enjoyed the magical realism in this book. It was a nice read that took me away from reality for a while.
I think I’m drawn to stories about runaways also for my own personal reasons, feeling as if I never belonged at my home and having to make it out in the world on my own. I was also glad to see the incorporation of Yamanashi prefecture, as I’d stayed there for several months while working on a Japanese peach farm during my vagabond days.
However, what made this book stick in my head so many years later were some of the more brutal scenes and how things could take a sudden and disturbing turn. Not that I love violence for the sake of violence, but that the book kept me on my toes, never sure of what I might encounter on the next page.
7 authors picked Kafka on the Shore as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
"A stunning work of art that bears no comparisons" the New York Observer wrote of Haruki Murakami's masterpiece, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. In its playful stretching of the limits of the real world, his magnificent new novel, Kafka on the Shore is every bit as bewitching and ambitious. The narrative follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his highly simplified life suddenly overturned. Their parallel odysseys - as…