Started reading The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami today, after talking to 
madame_muppet about it the other night.
I've borrowed my local library's copy. I saw it at one of the city book shops for $24.95, which is "do-able" in my books (finance wise), but I know I can get it cheaper elsewhere. But I digress. The moment I picked it up and read the first page, I knew it was a good thing. I mean, the protagonist talked about opera and pasta within the opening paragraph.
*squee*
That, and the translation from Japanese is really nice and you can see that it has retained a nice style. No long, drawn-out Ricean rambling here, just nice and non-flowery, yet descriptive when need be. Amazing how I went from being a hard-core Ricean who loved long expanses of purple prose 5 years ago, to being someone who can barely stand the stuff now.
Anyhoo, am not very far into it but am definately on a winner. Thankee Muppet for a good rec :D
madame_muppet about it the other night.I've borrowed my local library's copy. I saw it at one of the city book shops for $24.95, which is "do-able" in my books (finance wise), but I know I can get it cheaper elsewhere. But I digress. The moment I picked it up and read the first page, I knew it was a good thing. I mean, the protagonist talked about opera and pasta within the opening paragraph.
*squee*
That, and the translation from Japanese is really nice and you can see that it has retained a nice style. No long, drawn-out Ricean rambling here, just nice and non-flowery, yet descriptive when need be. Amazing how I went from being a hard-core Ricean who loved long expanses of purple prose 5 years ago, to being someone who can barely stand the stuff now.
Anyhoo, am not very far into it but am definately on a winner. Thankee Muppet for a good rec :D