6.02.2004
Russians like Murakami, Murakami likes Dostoyevsky
All the important news is on Pravda, naturally. Haruki Murakami has completed a new novel. All hail a free press! How long till it's translated?
But I thought Murakami's favorite writer was Raymond Carver (a book of whose short stories I have recently acquired). But I dig on the Dostoyevsky...though to be honest I've only read his two shortest works. Shoot, I was happier when I thought Murakami only liked short stories and my other favorite, Somerset Maugham. Now I have to read Brothers Karamazov and it's summer! But time for a book. Was going to read a book about the American class system but little good that would do me here so Karamazov it is. Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore. I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.
I mean, it's on the shelf and I'll probably read it. Would rather re-read Tolstoy's confession. So short, so good. I have a short atten...
But I thought Murakami's favorite writer was Raymond Carver (a book of whose short stories I have recently acquired). But I dig on the Dostoyevsky...though to be honest I've only read his two shortest works. Shoot, I was happier when I thought Murakami only liked short stories and my other favorite, Somerset Maugham. Now I have to read Brothers Karamazov and it's summer! But time for a book. Was going to read a book about the American class system but little good that would do me here so Karamazov it is. Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore. I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.
I mean, it's on the shelf and I'll probably read it. Would rather re-read Tolstoy's confession. So short, so good. I have a short atten...
