Books

I’d like to write some book (or novel) reviews here, which are arranged by author name, and I grouped novels by content.

Haruki Murakami

• 1Q84, Kafka on the shore: They are representatives of Murakami writing style: surrealism, fiction, reverie. The structure is like The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. You’d feel uncomfortable at first but impossible to put it down later.

• South of the Border, West of the Sun; Norwegian wood; Sputnik Sweetheart: You waste a life to pursue a love that never belongs to you. Painful, suffering and drowning to loneliness.

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Divorced men without strange journeys.

• Men without Women: The loneliness of men, I love Scheherazade.

• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: Like No longer of Dazai Osamu, an extreme isolation

• Hear the Wind Sing - A wild sheep chase - Dance Dance Dance

• The Ice Man: The deepest manner of a man, who is absolutely isolated.

Misc

• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

• No longer human by Osamu Dazai

• Journey to the East by Blair T. Spalding and Nguyen Phong translator.

• David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

• Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences by Jeffrey Long and Paul Perry