#Friday56 & #BookBeginnings: Dance Dance Dance

For Book Beginnings:

I often dream of the Dolphin Hotel. [..]
The hotel envelops me. I can feel its pulse, its heat. In dreams, I am part of the hotel.

- p. 3

For Friday 56:

"Untrendy!" I said out loud.

A waitress gave me a disturbed look.

I took a taxi back to the hotel.

- p. 56

Synopsis of Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami: In this propulsive novel by the author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Elephant Vanishes, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table.

As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls; plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic; and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.

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You know I love Murakami. Here's one I haven't read yet. And a book I rescued from the thrift store for $1. What do you think?