A review by toner1014
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

0.5

I hear Murakami’s novels are great, and I may try one, but this memoir was awful. It felt arrogant, self-centered, and in general like it really said nothing at all. As someone who has completed 30 marathons, 50-plus half marathons and two ultras, I was shocked to realize as I ready that the author would consider me a fraud because yea, I walk. I ran when I was younger but wasn’t fast. News flash: Not everyone runs a 3:30 marathon, and that’s OK. 
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