yaschan wrote:
> read full story at:
> http://hanami.ath.cx/topstory2309.html
> 
> Based on Beatles song, this moving story describes fragileness of human 
> spirit.The book tells about events of life of young Toru Watanabe in 60's, 
> the time of free love and student strikes.
> Narrator, Toru Watanabe falls in love with girl, Naoko. Her boyfriend 
> committed suicide and starts to live in isolated sanatorium in order to 
> recover from her loss. Their love is distant, rather than close and 
> intimate. There is calm coolness and wonderful beauty in the characters..

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?

CL