Micah Sittig

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星期四, 九月 09, 2004

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These are the books I have piled up on my bedside table.

Risa Wataya's INSTALL, a martial-arts novel monthly, Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Factbook 2003, Murakami's Wind-up Bird Chronicle, a collection of his short stories, and a collection of CS Lewis essays.

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2 Comments:

At 9/11/2004, 匿名 said:: oh man. those aren't all bathroom reading books, right?

how's Kafka on the Shore?

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At 9/11/2004, Micah said:: I lied, INSTALL is the only bathroom book right now, because I don't care enough about it to really need a dictionary to understand every word.

Kafka on the Shore is nice, but for me it's not projecting the full Murakami style that an English translation would. Nevertheless, the content is typical Murakami: a character looking for something he's not entirely sure about, a bit of historical recounting that I'm sure will tie into the main story later in the book... Even though the main character is 15 years old (something that Murakami says is different for this book, in the Chinese language edition's introduction), he's still the typical Murakami male. So, it pretty much fits the mold after 30 pages or so into the book.