I'm three-fourths into reading Murakami for the first time and I'm slowly falling in love with him. I rarely remember specific lines to movies let alone any line in a book, but for some reason this one line really stood out to me. I found it ironic, funny, succinct, and so true. The perfect quote, no?
Lots of people have suggested to me picking up a Murakami book, and one friend specifically advised me to NOT read The Wind Up Bird Chronicles as the first one. A strange bit of advice. When I asked him to clarify, he said it was so good of a book that I would only be disappointed if I read any of his other books thereafter. So at Spoonbill I made a conscious effort to pick up the lesser-known A Wild Sheep Chase instead, and disappointed I am certainly not. My favorite line of the book jumped out to me right away, on page 37:
"Tell me straight, because that's my favorite angle"Page 249 is pretty sweet too.
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