Comments | slimjim1686: Sitting in my underwear on waking a day before my birthday

slimjim1686

Sitting in my underwear on waking a day before my birthday

Jun 15, 2007 11:43

The eve of my birthday, officially jumping into the twenties. Thoughts?

None really. Excitement has remained marginal. Expectations for the future? Plans? Hopes? Fantasies?

Vague, amorphous, limited. I can't say right now I am doing much of anything, physically or mentally. There are two me's. One is social, who emerges around 6pm every day when ( Read more... )

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damnthedreams June 15 2007, 16:39:14 UTC

Then you had best pick him up from Gatwick on your way back.
Read Kafka on the shore next. Then Dance Dance Dance.

Oh,

happy-fucking-birthday!

slimjim1686 June 15 2007, 22:47:44 UTC

Ah, but I have already. Wind-up Bird Chronicles was my third of his. I've read Kafka on the Shore, Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World as well.

I think I'll tackle Norwegian Wood next. Any good, you think?

damnthedreams June 15 2007, 23:23:13 UTC

Nothing on dance dance dance.
I'm so glad you love him. Though I knew you would.

You fuckin doppleganger ;)

oceanschild June 16 2007, 05:11:49 UTC

norwegian wood is completely different, but has a quality of its own. if you like the surreal types, you're better off with wild sheep chase, blind willow sleeping woman, and dance dance dance, whereas if you're into the delicately beautiful emotional numbers he puts on so well, you want norwegian wood, south of the border west of the sun, and sputnik sweetheart.

i don't doubt that murakami is contributing to your sense of of having a split personality, instead of creating it, but for the record, those books can do that kind of damage to the most stable psyches, and i believe you are blessed enough to not be one of those poor boring souls. or, put differently: reading murakami fucks with you! it's in a good way, but it can do a number on you, and it's something to watch out for.

happy birthday, love.

rollinstrane June 15 2007, 19:43:00 UTC

Happy Birthday!

I enjoyed Slaughter House Five, although I don't put him in the same place you do. Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is fantastic; read it last summer. I finished 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' just before I came back from Edinburgh and loved it. What other Garcia Marquez is worth looking out?