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Evening read... ( and a little thought)
This part, don't know why but there is something in it. Like the feeling you can't explain but love
Currently halfway through Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore and holy shit it’s so goooood
When Kafka Tamura said:
“The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.”
...I fucking felt that
“If you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Kafka On the Shore - a book review
this was a very interesting read to say the very least. it was quite enjoyable and it leaves a lot of things for one to think about after they're done. i am not sure how i interpret the events that took place, seeing as some of them are realistic yet some of them are not, but, for now at least, i think that this entire story took place in a non-dream reality. this was all real in whatever universe it took place in. aside from its peculiar and weird general plot, i love the way that the characters were written. they all had something in them that did not affect the main plot line but it made them so human-like and that is why i truly appreciated the characters. in addition to all of these points, something that truly amazes me about this book and generally translated book is that the words i was reading are not written how they usually are. i mean by this that usually when things get translated, the translation cannot capture the beauty of the original words written by the author in the media's original language. it was something that added on to my enjoyment and liking to this book. anyway, i really recommend this book. though some people might find it confusing and boring. spoilers: i have seen many people who read this book saying that they didn't find any morale or any lesson learned from the story or something similar to that, i disagree. this book teaches you many things, one of which is to never get too attached to the past. i mean, look what it did to miss saeki. after her lover died, she was no longer alive. maybe physically she was alive but not mentally. she lost her will to live and just carried on as a emotionless living being. there are also many other lessons learned but this one is the one that stood out to me the most
Oh, just one of those days Murakami messed up my sleep schedule.