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Perguvious
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States1783 Posts
May 05 2010 08:40 GMT
#1
Well, more specifically, this blog is about his book Norwegian Wood. I'm ordering his other books on amazon after I finish this blog

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" I took my bottled firefly to the roof. No one else was up there. A white undershirt hung on a clothesline where someone had forgotten to take it in, waving in the evening breeze like the discarded shell of some huge insect. I climbed a steel ladder in the corner of the roof to the top of the dormitory's water tank. The tank was still warm with the heat of the sunlight it had absorbed during the day. I sat in the narrow space atop the tank, leaning against the handrail and coming face-to-face with a white moon only slightly short of full. The lights of Shinjuku glowed to the right, and Ikebukuro to the left. Car headlights flowed in brilliant streams from one pool of light to the other. A dull roar of jumbled sounds hung over the city like a cloud.

The firefly made a faint glow in the bottom of the jar, its light took weak, its color too pale. I hadn't seen a firefly in years, but the ones in my memory sent a far more intense light into the summer darkness, and that brilliant, burning image was the one that had stayed with me all that time. . .

I tried to recall when I had last seen fireflies, and where it might have been. I could see the scene in my mind, but was unable to recall the time or place. I could hear the sound of water in the darkness and see an old fashioned brick sluice. It had handle you could turn to open and close the gate. The stream it controlled was small enough to be hidden by the grass on its banks. The night was dark, so dark I couldn't see my feet when I turned out my flashlight. Hundreds of fireflies drifted over the pool of water held back by the sluice gate, their hot glow reflected in the water like a shower of sparks."


Norwegian wood connected with me in a way that no other book has. It's not the storyline that I liked the most, it's the way he tells the story through the first person view of the main character, Watanabe. Something specific I want to mention is I can feel the environment change when Watanabe goes to Ami Hostel (a sanitarium). I felt at peace, I felt as if nothing bad could possibly happen. I was there.

And just like that, when Watanabe leaft Ami Hostel, I left with him. The college and city come back, the flaws of the outside world. The majority of the beginning of the story takes place in Watanabe's college and areas around it, and I was like "okay, that's cool". However, when he went to the sanitarium, I saw a place of absolute peace. That's why when the scene shifts back to college and the city again, it's still the same college and city, and Murakami uses the same words, but I could just feel the difference and the flaws and the grossness of society and the world outside Ami Hostel. The feel is what I'm trying to say here.

When I read the book, I felt it.

The book is Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. I highly recommend it!
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JSH
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4109 Posts
May 05 2010 08:43 GMT
#2
lol

I first read it as Norwegian Food and when I saw the picture I was like what's an asian doing in a thread about Norwegian food?

hm... I might read it over the summer after my finals T_T
"It's called a miracle because it doesn't happen" - Just like my chances of reaching C- on ICCUP
Pushover
Profile Joined October 2003
Netherlands34 Posts
May 05 2010 08:55 GMT
#3
Murakami is great. I've read pretty much all the Murakami books that are out there right now, except for his latest. I really loved Norwegian Wood as well, it actually spurred me to start reading again. I do however feel that Norwegian Wood is quite unlike many of his other books. He loves surrealism and you will notice it more in his other novels. There are many recurring themes in his books as well, if you read all of his novels in rapid succession you will see the similarities and that is actually, to me at least, kind of a downside to his writing. Although I can see how someone might actually like that. I was going to compile a list of all those things, but I'll just let you find out on your own.

At the end of the day he writes brilliant books that really make you want to keep on turning those pages and that's what matters~.
JohnColtrane
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Australia4813 Posts
May 05 2010 08:59 GMT
#4
i know all about the norwegian wood

every morning
HEY MEYT
saritenite
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Singapore1680 Posts
May 05 2010 08:59 GMT
#5
Heyyy, isn't this the one which Boxer was talking about in his biography? :D

http://boxerbiography.blogspot.com/2006/12/176-i-also-want-to-play.html

And this gentleman made an appearance in Paul Therox's book, the Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Since you put it into such a good light, I shall read it

Thank you!
ShaperofDreams
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2492 Posts
May 05 2010 09:30 GMT
#6
I'll read this for sure thanks!
Bitches don't know about my overlord. FUCK OFF ALDARIS I HAVE ENOUGH PYLONS. My Balls are as smooth as Eggs.
Sonnet
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Ireland39 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-05 15:58:56
May 05 2010 15:58 GMT
#7
I liked Norwegian Wood emphatically,
But I can't help but feel, at heart,
It lacks a little something thematically,
For me it's all the Windup Bird

The Windup Bird and Dance Dance Dance,
Perhaps his two most solid works,
Deserve at least one last, chance glance,
Or Wild Sheep Chase for tears it jerks

It's nice to hear the man wax lyrical,
Books phrased just like detective novels,
It's hard to guess if it's all satirical,
As thickened plots too quick unravel

Of writers he is my preferred postmodern,
If of that ilk the least down-trodden
The greatest burden a man must bear is choosing being understood over metrical footing :(
zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
May 05 2010 16:01 GMT
#8
I liked Kafka and the Shore
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