Mirrors & copulation
I hated Last Year at Marienbad—in fact, I think I left early when it was shown (not long after Hiroshima Mon Amour, which I stuck out until the end)—so I was a bit put off by the bit on the jacket of The Invention of Morel that claimed it's the model for the movie. But in fact, even though it plainly is, I liked it a lot! I thought it would turn out to be more Third Policeman/Pincher Martin than, in fact, it was, but still. Yay books. (It's possible that I bought it despite my premonitions because it has a photo of an attractive woman on the cover, but the last book I bought for primarily that reason turned out to be pretty disappointing, so one would hope I might have learned my lesson.) Maybe I should watch LYaM again? Maybe not.
In other book-related news, today I slipped a nearby copy of Cat's Cradle into the dust jacket of a copy of this book at a Barnes and Noble, placing the displaced book underneath, I think, a cookbook?
Comments
on 2006-03-24 12:02:03.0, Michael Roetzel commented:
I don't know; if that girl offered me an adventure of literary proportions "south of the border" - it would be difficult to resist the price.
and, further, on 2006-03-24 12:12:28.0, ben wolfson commented:
See, that is exactly how they snookered me into buying it.
and, further, on 2006-03-25 15:23:36.0, dave zacuto commented:
Yeah, that's not one of Murakami's better novels, being just so much like all of his other novels.
Cat's Cradle is a fine eschatology. I think it's a good substitute for what seems like utter pap.
and, further, on 2006-03-28 21:30:03.0, washerdreyer commented:
Comment expressing agreement that Hiroshima Mon Amour is bad.
and, further, on 2006-03-28 23:24:59.0, john_m_burt commented:
Cat's Cradle, ah yes. I was fortunate enough to read it when I was 17, the perfect age for a little eschatology mixed with scatology.
and, further, on 2006-03-29 15:05:28.0, Danthelawyer commented:
Murakami being like potato chips: just as, having eaten one chip, one is compelled to finish the whole bag -- and then left with the feeling of having eaten a whole lot of nothing, in reading Murakami, I find each scene, chapter, whatever to be fun and engrossing, and then when I finish the book I realize there was no there there.
Like a more literary DaVinci Code?
and, further, on 2006-03-29 20:41:30.0, text commented:
when isn't the perfect age for eschatology mixed with scatology? Certainly not the Age of Man. That is, the Age of Man certainly not is not. Poop.
and, further, on 2006-03-29 21:35:33.0, Standpipe Bridgeplate commented:
text, I expressed a thought along similar lines over here.
and, further, on 2006-03-30 6:25:10.0, Matt Weiner commented:
After the Quake is very good. I haven't read any of the novels.
and, further, on 2006-04-02 9:05:46.0, Jonathan commented:
Bioy-Casares's book is really quite good, I think, and probably the key to Lost, if you have any interest in such masscult fare.
and, further, on 2006-04-02 0:02:44.0, dave zacuto commented:
I know this probably sounds obnoxious, but I suspect he intends that effect, Danthelawyer.