These promotional books aren’t anything special. You just pick them up for free at bookstores. But I love it when friends bring them back to me from other countries. Here’s one from Denmark.
Book: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
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Alex Good 
Ooh that’s a nice one!
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Do you like Siamese cats?
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Of course, beautiful looking creatures.
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They are. But the cross-eyed ones freak me out a bit.
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That’s very eyeist of you! 🤪
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😎
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I think that was the book where I gave up on Murakami.
I like how the cat is looking UP at the fish 😀
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I lasted a bit longer with Murakami, but he was definitely off his peak here. Which was, as is usually the case, the same time he was becoming a global superstar.
I vaguely remember the cats having a rough time of it in the book. They probably were looking up at the fish.
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Success definitely didn’t do him any favors.
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There’s truth to what Tennessee Williams called the catastrophe of success. But more often I find it’s when any artist is really discovered it’s a point in their career when their best work is already behind them.
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Yeah, just like me 😀 But I’ve got such a back log of great work that they’ll be mining my career for decades to come, hahahahahaa 😉
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I don’t know what a Murakami is, but I grew up with a Siamese cat (which is perhaps why I think of them as the Cat Gods).
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I loved Murakami’s earlier stuff. I’d recommend The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I find his later stuff pretty hit and miss.
I’ve always been more a dog person. I do think Siamese cats are pretty neat though.
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Not the same as The Windup Girl, huh? Oh, well, I’ll take a look anyway.
Dogs are different. They aren’t ruled by any one species.
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