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For this first blog post, I thought I would just look at what we've done so far and my thoughts around those. First off, reading, and wow am I rusty. This course is my first course english course in years and honestly I forgot how slow at reading I have become over time. But on the other-end it was good to hear what Ted Goosen had to say about his first translation, at least with all the time the reading takes, my comprehension has been pretty solid down to the details (the moth on Marlowe's desk wasn't getting past me). Overall I am glad we will be shifting down to one book at a time...but that may just be me.
In the past I have read a decent amount of Murakami's novels, and while I enjoyed A Wild Sheep Chase, I have preferred his other works more. To me, while it still had his usual cast of strange characters, the blurring of lines of what we know to be normal and strange, and even a cat; I never felt as strong of a connection to Boku or the other characters. I find that through all of his books the weird often never gets explained, but with all the talk of sheep it never felt like there was as much of a point. Also the romantic in me wanted him and the woman to work out... so honestly that was a bit disappointing. While overall enjoyable it just didn't leave as much of a lasting impression where Wind-Up Bird Chronicles and Kafka did.
I did enjoy reading it with The Long Goodbye. It was cool to see connection between two book that I probably would have never found. Next I need to sit down and watch the movie, because I know it is a bit different from the book, but it is actually one of my dad's and sister's favorite movies, so they were excited for me reading it.
Looking forward to continuing reading and lucky for me Norwegian Wood will be a reread so hopefully I'll pick up on some new details!
- Emmett Glazer
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