you’d think after 12 years of driving in this country, i’d know how to drive with a measly 20 cm of snow on the road. well, no is the not-so-surprising answer. unless i have 4WD / have experience living a few degrees north of the arctic circle / drive a caterpillar tractor, that is.
that’s what you get for living in a city that was build on five hills and seven rivers, or is it the other way round?
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finished harmony silk ages ago in december. clever, really. made me wonder who jasper’s dad really is.
currently back in the murakami zone, with the love story that is ノルウェイã®æ£® (noruwei no mori). less surreal, more in your face. when was the last time you read a love story that has this line:
“Eat a lot and make lots of semen,” Midori said. “Then I’ll be nice and help you get rid of it.”
my kind of love story.
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unlike the song, there won’t be no corn for poppin’. looks like i’d just bundle myself in front of the PC for 花より男å2 and the current season of bleach.
told ya i don’t need no TV (not in the physical sense, i want that bravia!). it’s been more than a year!
Jasper’s dad is the white guy, right?
that’s what i thought. then again when that jap guy forced himself on snow? writing’s quite ambiguous, which adds to the mystery!
At first I also thought white chappie was Jasper’s Dad.. but I think it’s the Jap now. At the start of the book doesn’t he describe himself as looking rather Japanese? Hmmm…
Good writing. I enjoyed it. As you said, ambiguous… adds to the mystery… thus making it memorable.
[…] I was ecstatic to hear that Murakami’s Norwegian Wood (Noruwei no Mori ノルウェイの森) was to be made into a feature film by French-Vietnamese director Trần Anh Hùng (Cyclo, The Scent of Green Papaya) last year. Obviously, some of my friends who have read the said tome thought it was somewhat sacrilegious to make a film out of it as it would taint the lasting impression it had on the reader. Perhaps being of the not-so-pembaca-buku-yang-tegar variety myself, I welcome a more visual interpretation of any literary work (I still haven’t read my comic version of Dostoevsky!). I may be a tad lazy in that department but in my defence, I don’t lack imagination. Hah. One thing, though – if you were to ask me to pick out a book I’ve read and describe it in detail, I’d fail miserably, especially when I’ve read it 4 years ago. […]