Anyone else's favorite book "What I talk about when I talk about running"?
I feel like I am in the vast minority here haha, but this book is my all time favorite Murakami book.
I know Murakami's main style of writing is abstract dreamscapes, and that's what people love him most for, but I really feel as an author his real gift is in grounded, minimum-fiction books, that some might consider mundane
I feel these books mirror in the best way who he is as a person and how he operates - grounded repetition and simplicity
For running specifically, being into sports myself I really relate to how Murakami being able to feel and viscerally experience the world around him through physicality, and hard bodily work and discipline.
As a matter of fact, my top 3 are quite unusual for a Murakami fan :
What I talk about when I talk about running
Men without Women
Novelist as a vocation
My next big read is gonna be Underground.
I'm wondering if anyone can relate or feels a similar way about his works? 😃