We can maybe blame the culture for this, but I think that would be incorrect. There's always multiple reasons as to why someone has a misogynistic approach to things and yeah, I'm going to leave it at that. Then there's the use of dual narratives which often might lead to people getting confused. But then again, if you read the book in a single setting, that I think won't happen
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 2:50
And then the movie is done, but you're still not moving because whatever it is you've seen, it has spoken to you on a deeper level and you feel yourself completely engrossed and drawn to the narrative. So even though the time has passed wherein you are consuming this literature or this cinema or whatever it is, the thing it was conveying that has become immortal, because even though it has stopped running, you are still into it, right? So it's difficult to translate
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:58
It makes me think more about how with poetry, I often can only get to meaning through experience or feeling first, which feels like a very particular and different kind of reading to me. And I think it's special anytime I experience a novelist who writes in that way or they kind of like engage my brain in that way because I read a lot of fiction that isn't like that. So when I do have that experience, it's a really special one and I really cherish it
You know, I've always wondered at the universality of Murakami's work. I admit I haven't yet covered the length and breadth of it, but I think I've read enough to look at them somewhat like those songs that aren't necessarily in a language that you understand or follow, but still manage to strike that chord within. And I use music here as purposefully as Murakami uses it across his works
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 2:13
And I totally agree because when I see the cats in Kafka and then I go back to like, watching an everyday cat, I'm like, I wonder what you are really thinking. Me? Ramya. So it's, it's, it's it's poetic. It's brilliant. Thank you so much for this. And I'm going to be thinking this over for sure
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 2:43
You know, one thing I left out in this review slow this summary of our live session, was the music bit and not the musicality of the sentences with the music bit. Like one unforeseen thing that happens with a Murakami book, irrespective of what book you are reading somewhere in the first three, four chapters he will mention in a song. And when you listen to that song while you are reading the book, the way the song changes meaning, it is eerie
Sitara Pillai
@sits_p · 1:45
Personally, I feel that if you pick up a Haruki Murakami novel and start reading, it's difficult to put it down. And once you finish reading a Haruki Murakami novel, it becomes a part of you in one way or the other. Maybe that is why he has captivated the imagination of millions of readers across the globe
Aishani Chatterjee
@Aishani · 4:26
But midway through the novel, it did hit me that what exactly is happening because, as I said, I wasn't very much aware of the fact that he uses magical realism or what his style is, what his style of storytelling is, what his style of writing is. So somewhere it was a bizarre experience, but I did catch the drift and had finished the novel
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 1:06
It's up to us how we interpret it. Whatever it is that we are dealing in life at a specific point of time, there could be an interpretation of amora coming from it and I think that is why he is universally loved, or at least I assume that to be the case. Thank you so much once again. And yay love how you frame it
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 2:32
A lot of us as readers like to figure things out on our own rather than having stuff told to us. Very deep version of show, don't tell. But still, we like to feel like little detectives figuring out what is going on in the book and all of that. And I think ultimately, that makes the reading experience worthwhile. Sputnik Sweetheart is also a book that I sorry, it's also a story that I enjoyed experiencing
Sitara Pillai
@sits_p · 0:15
Yeah. Haruki. Murakami book is never a light read. You have to be totally invested in it. And I have always felt that the only way to enjoy your Murakami book is to be a part of the story. And that's a big, big green flag for me while choosing a book