pres.umptuo.us

On Ken’s recommendation, I picked up A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami. Ken was pushing Murakami more than he was the book, and rightly so. I’ve been drawn in after only reading a few pages.

All of his books are translated from Japanese, so I’m not quite sure how much of it is really him, but it’s awesome. His prose just glides and feels so natural that he can pull anything off and does it well. Some choice quotes:

“What’ve you been up to this past year?” she asked me.
“Different things,” I said.
“Wiser for it?”
“A little.”

So it was that she and her slip vanished forever. Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die. But all in all, this was hardly what you could call a tragedy.

Alright, so I’m bad at making selections considering it fits better within the rest of the work. But you get the idea.

Some authors you admire because of the stories they craft and the creativity they use in their stories. But the ones you idolize and aspire to become are the ones that write in ways that make you smile and shake your head, wondering how they could make words dance the way they do.

Thanks again to Kenneth Pattengale, who’s new album Dust Bowl Dreams is out now.