Kafka on the Shore
Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami. I finished it on the plane ride over to England, and I'm still wanting more. I really got into the book and with the great writing style I was easily able to "see" everything through Kafka's eyes. It was like reading a dream - a weird one - but all my dreams are.It covers a 15 year old boy who runs away from home, and ends up discovering that he is deeply tied to a mysterious event that occurred during World War II.
There are elements of sex, suspense, humour, but not so much action. It had just enough other-worldly stuff thrown in to keep you wondering what could possibly happen next but not so much that you lost all immersion in the story's world. The characters were very interesting and unique (like the pretty-boy man who is mentally a gay man and physically a woman).
My next book will probably be non-fiction. I brought a huge university text-book sized livre with me. Something about technology taking over the world or something.
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posted by Blight @ 10:45 PM
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Everyone should read The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It's prose is so great, and it's ridiculously huge, even in an abridged form. And I can already hear you all thinking, "But Ben, Gibbon is notoriously anti-Catholic, doesn't that make you want to murder everything around you, gangsta stylee?"
Yes. But I'm dealing with it. Cause the prose. It is so great.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out.
I really need to start reading again. I've been lazy with my reading lately.
My dad always blamed the fall of the Roman Empire on orgies.
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