I recently started reading Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and I hate to say this but so far I'm disappointed. Murakami is one of my favorite authors and I love his work, but I find this book somewhat boring.
What are your thoughts?
No thoughts (yet) but I wandered in here because I thought it was a rip-off of Carver (What we talk about when we talk about love)
I may even be right....Murakami you say? Right wikipedia...feed me some lies...
We can never know what to want, because living only one life we can neither compare it with our previous lives, nor perfect it in our lives to come'
Milan Kundera,The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Parce que c'est toi, parce que c'est moi
I loved this book. It's not fiction, so unlike any of Murakami's other books. It's more a memoir of a period of time, related to Murakami's love (if that's what you'd call it, obsession, drive, perhaps) of marathon running and his specific experiences of particular marathons.
I thought it was a very insightful read, especially if you're a little curious about the semi-reclusive Murakami, or interested in the process of writing. He elicits a number of similarities about writing and long distance running which seem very valid and reassuring to the budding writer. I found it a very easy going read, and very enjoyable.
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It takes awhile for me to warm up whenever I sit down to a Murakami book, but whenever I do, I am rewarded with his gift of prose.
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