[quote="terra"]I don't see how it can officially count as part of the series if it was written by someone else.

I guess Adams' widow asked him to write it? Still... doesn't seem right.[/quote]
Yeah, it didn't really "feel" like a Hitchhiker's book in my opinion. I think the only reason she asked him to write it was that, before he died, Adams had said that he wanted to end the series on a bit of brighter note, since Mostly Harmless was rather bleak.

I just grabbed this book from the library, [i]Juliet, Naked[/i] (same author as [i]High Fidelity[/i], [i]About a Boy[/i]) because I needed something to read on a plane trip. It's mostly a story about relationships, but in the context of a guy's obsession with a particular musician who hasn't released anything in 20 years, and the musician himself is included in the story. It's pretty good so far and far more interesting than I expected, because of the music fan angle- which many people here can surely relate to.

[quote="terra"][i]Juliet, Naked[/i][/quote]

I would have never thought you were into such things.

[quote="sheerheartattack"][quote="terra"][i]Juliet, Naked[/i][/quote]

I would have never thought you were into such things.[/quote]

I suppose I was asking for it, with that title.

The title refers to the musician character's most successful album, [i]Juliet[/i]. [i]Juliet, Naked[/i] is the re-release of that album as stripped-down acoustic tracks.

I should also mention, the obsessed fan character runs a website for a community of opinionated fans who endlessly analyze the musician's life and works.

[quote="terra"]I suppose I was asking for it, with that title.[/quote]

Well, I'm always willing to give it to you as long as you ask politely.

Read [i]Prize Stock[/i] by Kenzaburo Oe this week.

I read Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. Really, really liked it. Read it in half a week. First time I've done that with a book in a long time. I'm currently reading Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac, but eh. Kerouac's style is starting to wear on me. He's one of my favorites, if not my favorite, but man, it's going nowhere.

[quote="Jomei"]Read [i]Prize Stock[/i] by Kenzaburo Oe this week.[/quote]

Reviewing Oe's "The Catch" for my Japan Lit midterm

Just finished Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami (read it yesterday and today) (in Dutch)
Don't really know what to think of it.
Though, Funny Bunny, Sonna fuu ni and Shiroi Natsu fit the book, very well.
Strange to say, but I might be kinda jealous, or something like that, regarding Watanabe.
I find it hard to find the right words, . . . I don't know what to think of it,
considering I'm a virgin and stuff, and this book, like so many other books and movies,
is mostly about relationships. Where it all comes to: I thought the book was kinda regular,
nothing really special, kinda cliché. But when I finished it, it hit me. . .and made me really confused and blue and stuff, . And listening to Shiroi Natsu atm. . . really makes me think, WTF ARE YOU DOING HERE!?

[quote="GoldenRhino"][quote="Jomei"]Read [i]Prize Stock[/i] by Kenzaburo Oe this week.[/quote]

Reviewing Oe's "The Catch" for my Japan Lit midterm [/quote]

What's that about? Because they refer to this captured black soldier in Prize Stock as "the catch" a lot.

>Ashinow
Generally Murakami's protagonists have enviable sex lives. And yeah, I'd love to screw Midori.

Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
What to say?
It's simply amazing (and/or amazingly simple)
Hadn't read such a great book in quite a time. (not that I'm that big of a reader, though)
Though I liked Norwegian Wood, I really, really liked this one.

There are two books lying in wait for me to be read:
"A Wild Sheep Chase" and "Juliet Naked".
Which one should I pick first?

Dropping Desolation Angels for now. Picking up "7 Famous Greek Plays." Aeschylus' Agamemnon and Prometheus Bound, Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Antigone, Euripides' Medea and Alcestis, and Aristophanes' The Frogs are the plays that are in it. Not sure which to start with. Thinking Oedipus or the Frogs. All of them are tragedies, save for the Frogs. Also, tomorrow or Wednesday, I should be getting another book related to Ancient Greece. It's a book of philosophers from Ancient Greece. I know a decent amount of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, but there's so many other philosophers from Ancient Greece that seem pretty interesting on their own that I feel I owe it to them to study.

I'm reviewing practically all the Murakami I've read as well as reading way too much literary criticism.

[quote="sheerheartattack"]Well, I'm always willing to give it to you as long as you ask politely.[/quote]

I've been anxiously checking my mailbox and it still hasn't arrived. I'm disappointed.

I finished [i]Juliet, Naked[/i]... the ending wasn't as good as the rest of the book. It got a little weird.

@Ashinow: Wild sheep chase.

Friday by Robert A. Heinlein