Kafka on the Shore

[sherryillk]

It came today! I still don't have my 5566 CD (I ordered it with the VCD because I was feeling cheap even if it was only like a dollar more and I really want to see the MVs on it!) but I'm content to have my Kafka on the Shore.

I think someone on my flist was talking about it before (although I think whomever it was had talked about the original Japanese version and not the translated one that I'm reading) but at the time, I didn't pay it much mind. But after my Sounds TA asked me about it, I became interested since I had heard about it for some time now.

So on a whim, I bought it on Amazon and it arrived today! I've started reading it, but I haven't gotten very far yet (about 70 pages in) so I'm still pretty mystified by all that's happening. Nakata has just been introduced and the first time you meet him, he's talking to a cat so I'm still wondering how this all fits in with Kafka running away. From what I've heard Murakami Haruki's writing style is meant to perplex you a bit and I'm definitely a bit perplexed as to how everything connects, from the kid who ran away, to the reports on Rice Bowl Hill Incident and from the man who went through the Rice Bowl Hill Incident who can talk with cats now. I don't know, but I want to.

God, after reading so many fanfics and so many essays and assigned book readings for my classes, I had forgotten what it mean to just pick up a novel and read for fun. I really need to do this more often but I know that it's rare that I actually have time to waste on something like this. It's actually my first new book that wasn't manga in a long time as well so I'm getting all happy just from having a new book. I really love books -- somehow that got lost and I had almost forgotten that books were always my first love.

Right now I'm enjoying just sitting back and reading a book with substance. It really is refreshing. :)

Comments

[datenshi-blue.livejournal.com]

I did talk about it some time ago. ^_^

[sherryillk.livejournal.com]

I thought I remembered someone talking about it! What did you think about it? I'm only half way through but I'm liking it a lot so far. :)

[yoshikochan.livejournal.com]

I haven't read for pleasure in a long time either ='( since the summer I guess. It's all school reading and the like ^^; Yay, post if it's good =D

[sherryillk.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Once school starts, you get in the habit of only having just enough time (or not enough time) to do your assigned reading and everything else gets tossed aside. So now that I'm taking some time to read for fun, I'm enjoying it a lot.

[steveyshock.livejournal.com]

I'm reading the unbearable lightness of being by kundera for fun! I can't stand reading things, when i'm forced to read them, you know? Even if the material is something i'd like outside of class. Like, reading russian literature would be much more fun if I didn't have deadlines. So, every now and then I tantalize mah senses and pick up a nifty book to warm up to. :D

[sherryillk.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean! Like during ConWest, some of the stuff I would have liked if I didn't have to read read it all within two days, but the fact that we had to do response papers on what we've read and I can't enjoy them on my leisure just sucked all the fun out of reading.