I'm reading a book where nothing happens
well, that's not quite true. yesterday I read two chapters about japanese soldiers who were in china during WWII and one of them gets skinned alive and the other gets dumped down and well and at the end of the two chapters the character telling the story who lived through it bows at the main character and gets on a bus.
that's the most exciting thing that has happened in the book so far
and if what I remember is correct, it's the most exciting thing that happens in the whole book, but I could be wrong.
the book is the wind-up bird chronicle by haruki murakami and I'm reading it right now because I'm out of new books to read in my spare time which is shitty but buying myself new books right before christmas is an asshole move don't you think?
here is what wikipedia says about the plot of the book:
The novel is about a low-key unemployed man, Toru Okada, whose cat runs away. A chain of events follow that prove that his seemingly mundane life is much more complicated than it appears.
which makes me glad I read it years ago when I was younger and back before I could wikipedia everything because I wouldn't have read it based on that description. or maybe I would have, who knows?
I read the entire book in one day which is cray because it's actually three books in one volume. it was when I was living in hamilton and I went for a job interview in the next town over and my then-bf dropped me off and I had to wait around for him all day which was stupid of me. so I walked until I found an air-conditioned mall (it was summer) and bought the book and sat on various benches throughout the mall and also the food court until he was finished work and came to pick me up.
stupid, I know. so dumb.
as a result though I wound up reading this weird book with these really flat characters and a protagonist who seems pretty indifferent about what happens to him and some weird scenes like the skinning a guy alive one that I just talked about.
it wasn't my style of novel at the time but I'd made the commitment to read the damn thing and so I did.
it's funny how much you can get someone to read, even when nothing happens.
case in point.
