Thoughts on "Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- I loved this thought-provoking look into one student's life in Tokyo in the late 1960s. It deals with love and loss and how to live with both.
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i have spent my entire life not reading anything, but my new years goal this year is to read at least 10 books. This was the first book i really have ever read, and i just wanted to say that i loved this review. Your ability to express deeper opinions about the topics is incredible and its something i hope to learn to do better. Thank you :)
On what you were saying at 2:35, I believe I was thinking about that recently. It's like, when you're in the habit of being an observer, you're so used to watching life take place and going on your thought tangents that, when the thing you're watching requires your input, you don't have your hands on the controls. Like the person in front of you expects you to react to what they did, but it takes a couple of seconds before you realize that you're part of what's happening and can influence it, and after that there's time needed to convert those thoughts, which initially weren't meant to be understood by anyone but you, into something that can be said and not get too weird a stare, all the while you maintain that thought tangent because you really want to finish it!
Marcelo Augusto Sagrilo de Almeida I love this explanation!! Really well said, thank you!
I was initially freaked out by the door opening on its own 30 seconds in but then i realized it was the kitty. Also if thats your personal library behind you I'm impressed.
@7:01 you're a tactile>visual learner.
And yes translation can make or break a stories delivery.
Richards Sa oh yeah my cats open doors all the time! Yes that is my personal library. I’ve been collecting for many years :)
@@SaoirsesShelf What seems to be the problem of the character?
1:34 Interesting how as soon as you mentioned "magical realism" the cat came on...
Haha! Cats are a big theme in Murakami's work, and I think my cats must know this.
I love listening to your reviews. Keep it up.
I enjoyed hearing your thoughts on this book! Thankyou :)
Thanks for watching!! 😁
Came here after experiencing a mild depression because of this book. And wanted to know how people taught of naokos death and the ending
Same here, I know that this comment was made 10 month ago but I've read the book last night's and barely got any sleep.
I've not been in the best shape to read this book perhaps because I'm also currently struggling with some things in my life and the ending completely destroyed me, I've never felt such pain and sadness while reading a book not to mention the tears I've cried.
So we have the same reason of looking up on those videos and hoping it helps us
I’ve heard a lot about murakami and decided finally to check him out. I bought Kafka on the shore and looked at the reviews on it. Since the title had Kafka in it, I’ve researched whether I should acquaint myself with his writing first. It so, people said there are some allusions to him so I bought kafka’s anthology. I’ve started with “the trial” and oh god that was such a boring read, took me a long time to finish that book. I decided to give Kafka a break bc it was taking too much time to get though him. I went back to murakami in hopes of finally being able to start reading Kafka on the shore. As I looked on the web again, people said it would be best to start with his “Norwegian wood”, to get the intro into his style. I bought the book...even though the plot was simple, nothing crazy going on - it kept me gripped into the book and I couldn’t stop reading it. Whenever I close the book, I read first few sentences of the next chapter, and since basically the start of each chapter was a foreshadow, I ended up finishing it. When I finished it, it was 1 am at night...the story has left me with this inexplicable gust of feeling. I really wanted to talk to someone but it was too late to call any of my friends. So I lay on the carpet of my floor, mind was full of regurgitating of what I just read. I wasn’t particularly thinking about any of the events though, it just consumed me with this infinite feeling in my chest... no thoughts, just feelings. I ended up falling asleep on the floor, knees up, hands on my stomach. Same thing happened when I read “stranger” by Camus and “the catcher in the rye”. The latter is my fav book btw. I really enjoyed this book, especially listening to Beatles album of 1965. Great review as well
After I read it, I laid in my chair in the back yard. The sun was almost set, I couldn’t really do anything and I didn’t want to. I could only feel the emotions it left in me. When I finally did get up, I went to my book shelf and started reading The Great Gatsby again after 7 years of laying there waiting to be opened again. I can’t wait to get old and read it again to see how I feel about it.
Kafka can be difficult to approach. I would recommend reading some of his short stories to figure out what he's all about. "The Metamorphosis" is obviously classic and "Before the Law" directly relates to The Trial in theme :)
Or try reading books Kafka reads about in the novel. Right now I’m reading The Miner by Natsume Soseki. And man you could see the inspiration that came about to Kafka on the shore.