Murakami saves my life?
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elusivekMurakami Haruki fans might get a kick out of my story for today. I don't know, was is coincidence? Was is pure luck? Fate? Timing? Or some kind of supernatural thing?
Yesterday, I spend the whole morning mulling about wanting to read Haruki Murakami's book 1Q84. I've read in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mila_gogo and ninchu 's blogs that this book is great and very engaging and whatnot. So I got curious. I found out the English version is going to be on sale in 25 October this year (so how is it that you both got the book already? Or are you reading the Japanese version?) and so opted for trying out his current works available in my vinicity instead.
Seeing that the library has some of his other works, I decided to head off to the library after work and get a book or two to sample it for the night, as I had no plans for anything last night. I was even thinking about loaning the Chinese cersion of 1Q84 to read, but seeing that Murakami's books are more to the intellectual side of the spectrum, my shoddy Chinese is not going to help me much in reading the book anyway, so I gave up the idea. Besides, I don't even understand how Chinese books are categorized so I probably wouldn't even be able to find it anyway.
I loaned Norwegian Wood, said to be one of his more famous works, and After Dark, which I hadn't heard or learnt of in my mini research on Murakami during the morning. I'm half way into After Dark, and I must say it's not bad! Pretty good too! I am very much looking forward to reading Norwegian Wood as soon as possible. Perhaps by tomorrow evening I could finish After Dark.
Now, the interesting part of the story comes now. This morning, I was reading the newspaper, and saw an article about a Portuguese Lawyer being splashed with corrosive water, and was quite badly burnt, one-tenth of his body burnt, along a certain road at a certain time last night. My usual route home after work, is right on that road, right at that time too. It was because of my curiosity for Haruki Murakami that I took another road to go to the library instead.
The newspaper report says that other by-passers were injured from the attack as well. I don't personally know the lawyer, but Macau being such a small place, almost everyone of "the genuine long-time locals" would know everyone, so, I do know of the lawyer. He's a pretty nice guy, per the rumour mill so nobody really knows the intent behind the attack.
In a way, I could say that Haruki Murakami saved my life. But, it won't influence my decision on deciding if his works are my cup of tea or not. I will still have to read them and decide for myself :3
Yesterday, I spend the whole morning mulling about wanting to read Haruki Murakami's book 1Q84. I've read in
mila_gogo and ninchu 's blogs that this book is great and very engaging and whatnot. So I got curious. I found out the English version is going to be on sale in 25 October this year (so how is it that you both got the book already? Or are you reading the Japanese version?) and so opted for trying out his current works available in my vinicity instead.Seeing that the library has some of his other works, I decided to head off to the library after work and get a book or two to sample it for the night, as I had no plans for anything last night. I was even thinking about loaning the Chinese cersion of 1Q84 to read, but seeing that Murakami's books are more to the intellectual side of the spectrum, my shoddy Chinese is not going to help me much in reading the book anyway, so I gave up the idea. Besides, I don't even understand how Chinese books are categorized so I probably wouldn't even be able to find it anyway.
I loaned Norwegian Wood, said to be one of his more famous works, and After Dark, which I hadn't heard or learnt of in my mini research on Murakami during the morning. I'm half way into After Dark, and I must say it's not bad! Pretty good too! I am very much looking forward to reading Norwegian Wood as soon as possible. Perhaps by tomorrow evening I could finish After Dark.
Now, the interesting part of the story comes now. This morning, I was reading the newspaper, and saw an article about a Portuguese Lawyer being splashed with corrosive water, and was quite badly burnt, one-tenth of his body burnt, along a certain road at a certain time last night. My usual route home after work, is right on that road, right at that time too. It was because of my curiosity for Haruki Murakami that I took another road to go to the library instead.
The newspaper report says that other by-passers were injured from the attack as well. I don't personally know the lawyer, but Macau being such a small place, almost everyone of "the genuine long-time locals" would know everyone, so, I do know of the lawyer. He's a pretty nice guy, per the rumour mill so nobody really knows the intent behind the attack.
In a way, I could say that Haruki Murakami saved my life. But, it won't influence my decision on deciding if his works are my cup of tea or not. I will still have to read them and decide for myself :3
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Date: 2011-05-28 14:43 (UTC)Like you, my first Murakami book was "After Dark". Not bad while reading it, but the inconclusive ending is clawing at me. I've just started Norwegian Wood, and so far it seems amusing enough (just reading where the guy meets Storm Trooper at the dorm). I think I kind of see why he's popular, but I'm still not sure if I like him yet. Maybe after Norwegian Wood I'll go for his more sci-fi-ist work and see how I like them too :D