Michael Cash wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:56:50 +0900, CL <flothru@yahoo.com> brought
> down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>>yaschan wrote:

8>< Lorena was here

>>>Based on Beatles song, 

8>< more Bobbitting

>>This person seems to obsess over Murakami.  Probably because he is one 
>>of the few "modern" Japanese writers who gets translated.
> 
> He and Banana Yoshimoto. I've often meant to read some of her stuff
> just to see what the fuss is all about, but somehow I can't bring
> myself to actually read something written by someone named after a
> fruit.

My wife was given one of Banana Yoshimoto's books by a co-worker many 
years ago when they were all the rage.  She threw the book away (she 
_never_ throws books she doesn't like away, she passes them on to 
someone else who wants to read them) and, when she changed work groups, 
she stopped communicating with that particular co-worker, saying she 
wasn't like "the rest of the women" she'd worked with.

CL