What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
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This rich and revelatory memoir offers a cornucopia of memories and insights about writing and running and the vital impact both have made on the authors life as he prepares for the 2005 New York City Lengthy.
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Like many people I like Murakami. I don’t have 1 favorite. It can be Windup chronicles, Kafka on the shore, Dance dance dance or even Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world. Yet, if you do like Murakami like me and don’t want to be disappointed. I fervently suggest you avoid this book. It’s autobiographic and has nothing of that magic of his fictional books. The only reason to read this book is when you run like he runs. If you want to read about additional people preparing for a lengthy this book has some insights you want to know about. If you don’t run long distances and just like literature in all-purpose and/or specifically Murakami avoid this book. Don’t spoil your feelings/associations/recollections by reading this book. Preserve Murakami as you know him!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The publishing world has a (monetary) fondness for pushing non-fiction books by fiction writers on us, hoping to capitalize on the leader’s readership. Stephen King’s lovely tome about writing worked. This, Murakami’s book on running, did not. I, too, am a middle-aged long-distance runner but establish small insight or comfort of either theme in these pages. If you want to read something of depth about running, life, and aging, buy any one of George Sheehan’s books as a replacement for.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This acclaimed novelist has written a very shallow and sadly vacuous book about what he calls running. Really the book is a paean to the leader’s “iron will” (there’s an attractive quality) and is likely a cash grab to trade on his fame. Runners will find small of use here – Murakami’s thoughts about training and tactics (even for a very modest athlete) are deficient and unproductive. His experiences, which are very smooth by most running standards, are uninspiring. He regularly sounds spoilt and peevish, and is consistently humourless. He seems to have small in the way of a family tree to help him in his education about himself – to make him laugh or stab his huge ego.
From a runner’s point of view, but, the huge disappointment is his lack of the right runner’s experience – the beyond the world forgetting that comes with distance. My training tip? I reflect that he should take off his headset and listen to himself.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I was disappointed with this memoir. The only thing I got from this book was his preternatural gift for running. He doesn’t stretch, never gets sick, and has never been injured! I delight in his novels, and had hoped he would have something insight to say about the transcendence of long distance running. He didn’t deliver.
I recommend the New Yorker article over the book, which is really worth reading.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I have read about half of Murakami’s novel and like them all for their unique perspective and deep insight. With the caveat that I am not a long distance runner, I establish this book disappointing. It is very mundane compared to Murakami’s additional writing. I would recommend any of his novels over this book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5