Rick

Really interesting read for Murakami-heads like myself as Haruki talks with Jungian psychotherapist Hayao Kawai.

Topics cover Japan and the Japanese psyche, the West, and storytelling. I wish I had read this after finishing The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle as the conversation took place shortly after its release in Japan and a lot of the topics discussed relate to the book in some way.

Unfortunately, I think I've now read everything by Murakami published in English. Hurry up with a new one!

I kind of enjoyed how stupid this was and how it was very aware there was no reason for it existing... but it still shouldn't.

The stuff about translation is pretty interesting but when I read the word ‘Waterstones' in a book I mentally check out.

I am unable to give a fair review because Eric Cantona is the greatest man who ever lived.

I have absolutely no idea what to think of this book.

Most of the science (by all accounts) isn't great but the topics themselves deserve a bigger platform. Which, with the way this book is gaining publicity recently, looks like it may well happen. It's that sort of An Inconvenient Truth thing.

Renewable being essentially summed up with “I don't think this will work” and not much else to back it is grating.

Then there's the fact it's incredibly short and at times feels like a prequel to Cormac McCarthy's The Road - that level of bleakness.

This is a 3 stars that is probably more of a 2.5.