69. Sixty-nine

”With a hundred and fifty yen I could have had a bowl of noodles, milk, a curried bun, a melon roll, and a jelly doughnut. But I always made do with one bun--no milk--and saved the rest of my money to spend on books by Sartre, Genet, Celine, Camus, Bataille, Anatole France, and Kenzaburo Oe.In a pig Leggi tutto

When it comes to dizzying collections of words, Ryu Murakami has long been the writer most likely to make me wretch with glee. He's a Level 3 sensory offender, twiddling away at a reader's gag reflex just because he can. There is a scene in his novel "In The Miso Soup," (my favorite) that is so engr Leggi tutto

Rate: 4/5 Gần đây tôi đọc sách mà không coi trước mấy về mấy thứ giới thiệu này nọ, một phần tránh bị spoil, phần nữa là để tạo sự bất ngờ cho mình khi đọc. 69. Tôi biết mọi người nghĩ gì về con số này. Ryu vốn lại chẳng chuyên viết về mấy thứ trần trụi như thế còn gì. Nhưng không, không nhé. Lúc nãy Leggi tutto

This one really spoke to me! I'll write more about it after the end of the readathon.

She asked me if I had ever read 69 by Ryu Murakami, of course I hadn't but I didn't want her to know that. I did know of Haruki Murakami so I proudly made a remark comparing the two authors to sound smart, I bet nobody has ever made that connection I thought to myself, surely she will be impressed b Leggi tutto

The author has created a Japanese Holden Caulfield of a hero whose escapades illuminate life out in the sticks of Kyushu, in 1969. The voice is great and the honesty of the self-serving character (he was only really interested in doing student barricades and protesting the Vietnam War to impress a g Leggi tutto

Very cute and funny. Kids, eh? Bits: "Like most cigarette shops, this one was equipped with an old lady who you weren't quite sure was still alive." "I asked Adama why the lighting in Japanese buildings was so bad, and he said it was because the Japanese were hopeless sex fiends." "We all sighed. What c Leggi tutto