Stuart
I read Norwegian wood the year after I had been to Japan as a teenager, and the book, and that trip combined were responsible for a now 25 year long fascination with and eduction in Japan and Japanese. I dread re-reading it because I don’t think it could ever live up to that kind of impact, but I will always love it for what it did for me as a directionless teenager looking for a sense of direction and for a place t place my passion. I know Murakami is often critiqued for writing the same novel over and over again, but it’s a good novel, and this is perhaps the best version of it.
I read Norwegian wood the year after I had been to Japan as a teenager, and the book, and that trip combined were responsible for a now 25 year long fascination with and eduction in Japan and Japanese. I dread re-reading it because I don’t think it could ever live up to that kind of impact, but I will always love it for what it did for me as a directionless teenager looking for a sense of direction and for a place t place my passion. I know Murakami is often critiqued for writing the same novel over and over again, but it’s a good novel, and this is perhaps the best version of it.