Haruki Murakami Stories Online

A basic and probably incomplete list of online stories by the renowned Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. I read his collection of stories titled After The Quake and followed up by reading a couple of his novels. It's easy to get hooked on his style of writing and the straightforward way he presents his characters. Now's your chance to try some without having to lay out any money, or even bother to go to the library, which you really should do you lazy American.

Because libraries are cool.




On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning

On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl: Hypertext Version

Tony Takitani

Pinball

The Seventh Man

The Blind Willow and the Sleeping Woman

A long way from stuffed cabbage

A Perfect Day for Kangaroos

Hunting Knife

Chance Traveler

Hanalei Bay: Part One

Hanalei Bay: Part Two

The Rise and Fall of the Tongariyaki

Safari And The :First-Letter

Here's something I found out the hard way, after scratching my head and saying "Ah Duh...Du-oh!" about a million times. The Safari browser hates it when you try to use :first-letter styling and combine it with some type of text-transforming. Absolutely hates it. For those of who who anticipate taking advantage of this CSS pseudo element it is something to keep in mind. Style the :first-letter all you want, but DON'T apply text-transform to the PARENT ELEMENT. I mean it. For me it resulted in an undeclared and undesired transforming of the 2nd letter as well. And there is really not much on the web to clue you into this fact.

Isn't that strange? You'd think a major bug like this would be well-documented. It isn't. But don't take my word for it. Do a Google Search and see what you can find. I'd be very surprised if you found something as straightforward and helpful as this post.