CL <flothru@yahoo.com> dixit:
>yaschan wrote:
>> read full story at:
>> http://hanami.ath.cx/topstory2309.html
>> 
>> Based on Beatles song, ....

>This person seems to obsess over Murakami.  Probably because he is one 
>of the few "modern" Japanese writers who gets translated.

>Murakami is a shallow, baseless jerk in real life.

>So why should we pay attention to anyone who is so hung up on what he 
>scribbles?

I enjoyed "Norwegian Wood". I read it in France, which may or may not have
had something to do with it.  Maybe not.

Part of it was set in parts of Tokyo I know very well, but 30 years before 
I lived there. Also I was the same age as the protagomists at that stage of
the 1960s.

-- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学