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Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
The melancholy, absurdity, and frank strangeness of where we end up in our lives; served as a gentle soup of The Great Gatsby, with a broth of Camus' The Stranger, Murakami has taken me from absently spooning it in in the beginning, to suddenly seeing my reflection at the bottom of the bowl. A great read, to my own surprise.
I had been looking forward to reading it for a long time, but was a bit dejected by what I felt was a middling story and dull prose. I was however proven wrong, and feel quite enamoured with a lot of it, and his style and the way he brings out my feelings and memories. Reading sometimes felt more like walking through my own memories, not because the story was like my own life, rather because I was put in them by Murakami himself.
I was refreshed and recontextualised with the help of the advice that Murakami might not be as much about meanings and the actual events, but more of how it makes you feel, which I would agree with.
Not all things and topics make much sense, and some handled quite poorly or strangely in my taste, but looking past these, I feel comfortable and full; left with the mellow aftertaste of an early winter soup.
I had been looking forward to reading it for a long time, but was a bit dejected by what I felt was a middling story and dull prose. I was however proven wrong, and feel quite enamoured with a lot of it, and his style and the way he brings out my feelings and memories. Reading sometimes felt more like walking through my own memories, not because the story was like my own life, rather because I was put in them by Murakami himself.
I was refreshed and recontextualised with the help of the advice that Murakami might not be as much about meanings and the actual events, but more of how it makes you feel, which I would agree with.
Not all things and topics make much sense, and some handled quite poorly or strangely in my taste, but looking past these, I feel comfortable and full; left with the mellow aftertaste of an early winter soup.