I tore through Piercing by Ryu Murakami; the prose was so easy to read and the story was compelling. What you think is going to be a gruesome murder turns out to be something altogether quite different.
I've seen the film version of Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, which is an absolute carbon copy of the book. Nevertheless I enjoyed reading the original; there was something about piecing together all the clues that lead up to such a shockingly dramatic ending.
Audition by Ryu Murakami is incredibly slow, which it only makes up for by being super short. If I'm honest I was bored. This is one occasion where the film surpassed the book.
