Haruki Marukami and me(in love-hate relationship with his works)
Norwegian woods- Wrong choice of book for my age. No, but the author has published it in his 38th year which makes it ok for my age. Its basically a love story written according to the author's whims and fancies. Perverse, embarassingly explicit potraying physical infidelity and mental commitment(according to me, this concept of emotional commitment with physical promisciuty is false justification to one's conscience). With most of the characters showing nervous breakdowns and commiting suicides, I strongly doubt the sanity of the author, as it is my habit to elucidate the mental status of the author at the time of writing a book, I tried to guess Haruki Murakami's state of mind too. But somehow, doesn't seem to match. All authors work on their own single theme. Whatever may be the story, the author reveals himself in it. This author is still a tough one to diagnose. Need few more readings of his ...