This book is too good: A wild sheep chase

2009-07-06 07:23:00

My sister and her boyfriend got me A wild sheep chase, by Haruki Murakami. It's entirely too good for my own good as it makes me want to play hooky from work, to read the book cover-to-cover in some darkened coffee bar.

EDIT:
So I never played hooky, but I -am- almost through the book. In the mean time, here's a few choice quotes.

I skipped the thirty-one years between 1938 and 1965 and jumped to the section entitled "Junitaki Today". Of course, the book's "today" being 1970, it was hardly today's "today". Still, writing the history of one town obviously imposed the necessity of bringing it up to a "today". And even if such a today soon ceases to be today, no one can deny that it is in fact a today. For if a today ceased to be today, history could not exist as history.

Unconsciously, I brought a cigarette to my lips, but before lighting up I remembered the gasoline fumes and returned it to the pack. So I sucked on a lemon drop instead. The result: the uncommon taste of lemon gasoline."

"C'mere, Kipper", said the chauffeur, picking up the cat. The cat got frightened, bit the chauffeur's thumb, then farted. (A sort of "you had to be there" moment)

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