LoT Book CLub - Book 2 - Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I was in San Francisco last Tuesday and found a copy at a bookstore. I'm currently around page 400 (of the trade paperback edition).

This is concerning two paragraphs on page 329.

Spoiler:

The text in question is:



This isn't a comment of any particular depth but it is amazing how a small touch of familiarity can really bind you more to a book. I'm by no means a familiar of Japan but I have watched the mass of people and crazy people at that location outside of Shinjuku Station. I know exactly what "passageway under the tracks" he is talking about and have walked that path myself (though late at night, giving it somewhat more edge since it was lined with construction walls and makeshift homes for the homeless).

I'm enjoying it anyway, but with just these two paragraphs I felt the story swisting itself tighter within me.

Spoiler:

I didn't take the path under the tracks, but I spent a morning on that wall waiting for the Shinjuku Tower Records to open - great people watching place.

[wendybeth]

Okay, I was at the library and found myself looking for any copies of his other works. (There were none). I only do that, and very rarely, with authors I like. I'm nearly finished with the book- I read at lightspeed up until the last 1/8th of the book, and now I keep falling asleep while reading. (Not a comment on the book- just been working a lot and not sleeping well). I am not familiar with any of the locales he writes of, yet the book seems very familiar to me. I don't know why, perhaps it's the state of mind of some of the characters? I think maybe I'll know by story's end, or not. I don't really care- I'm just glad I've found something I like in the modern world.