Literature is a go

Decided to scrap my games section in Rasmussens Recommends, since I don't play games anymore. So to get the brows a little higher - indeed all this TV talk is getting them down - I'll replace it with a litterature section, as I once had in the past.

My first recommendation is Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood from 1987.



He has become something of a regular in my book collection, I really like the way he writes. He usually writes magic realism, where the normal everyday life is suddenly penetrated by supernatural events - and some of his favorite motifs are cats, food, youth, sex and wells! In this novel however there isn't really any fantastic events, rather it's a very well written book about love and the maturation of a young man, without losing Murakami's sense of style and language. It's very very good, stayed up all night to finish it.

Here are some quotes:

I reached the conclusion that a university education was meaningless. I decided to think of it as a period of training in techniques for dealing with boredom

"I want you and me to be captured by pirates. Then they strip us and press us together face to face all naked and wind these ropes around us."
"Why would they do a thing like that?"
"Perverted pirates," she said.