Hi,

I read one more Murakami story last night, The second bakery attack. Very strange and weird but it has something that made me like it. I just cannot pinpoint it. I am big on analysis and this is driving me crazy. I must know what made me like all these Murakami stuff. I think it's the imagery. When you read the stories, you start "see"ing it. They always have some mystery element that pushes you to read on. And when you finish it, there are not many answers provided. But you think that the answers ARE there but in some cryptic form and all you need is to decode them. That makes them interesting, atleast to me.

"The second bakery attack" is the story of a newly married couple and they must attack a bakery. This has so many weird elements like classical music, hunger, McDonald's, dreams, volcanos, boats. Read it and let me know what you think.

Yours Sincerely,

Labels: Books, Murakami

Hi,

Couple of days ago I read a short story By Haruki Murakami called "Super-Frog saves Tokyo". I am not a Murakami fan but I have read "Kafka on the shore" and one more short story called "The Airplane". And all these should be called, for lack of a good vocabulary, interesting. I like Franz Kafka and Murakami is very similar. He takes a seemingly impossible, foolish, fantastic, surreal incident and puts it in realist surroundings.

In the short story, a bank officer meets a giant six-foot frog, called "Frog". Now Frog wants his help to fight a worm called Worm and stop an impending earthquake which would destroy Tokyo. Sounds interesting? Foolish?

The story works on many levels and I dont know if its meant to be. It's confusing. You think you have not got it but somehow you have. If you think I am crazy to talk like that, well, go read it and then we'll talk.

Whatever it is.. I think I liked it :)

Yours Sincerely,

Labels: Books, Murakami