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December 17, 2003
Next In Line
I finished Wind-Up Bird!! :)
Of course I feel a lil sad having to depart from Mr Okada's world. The ending was a tad pale...but it was a marvellous, intricate work of imagination though. I can imagine the text in Japanese. The Japanese language is more formal, more tedious and more naturally contrived (how oxymoronic!), thus making the over-writing un-exaggerated. But the translator probably tried to retain most of the elements of Murakami's writing.
I must soon learn to read in more than two languages. :(
Moving on to another translated piece of work - Erick Fromm's in fact. I have to at least finish what I've set out to read for this trip, otherwise this would be considered a wasted trip.
Yes, I define my life by the books I read.
And I'm still putting writing on hold.
But oh! Mr Wind-Up Bird! What a wonderous wonderous affair we had!!!! You made staying in , reading by Manhattan's skyline and the snow so much worthwhile.
addendum: Stepphenwolf peaks from the corner and reminds lainey gently that he oughtta be finished soon. Subway reading is, perhaps, an insult. Lainey has not taken the Subway in almost a week!
Posted by lainey at December 17, 2003 06:03 PM