The City and Its Uncertain Walls [book, audiobook]
The City and Its Uncertain Walls [book, audiobook]
IT TOOK FOREVER TO GET THROUGH THIS, I BOUGHT THIS BOOK WHEN I WAS GOING TO MALTA ON THE JOKE PREMISE EVERY MURAKAMI BOOK IS THE SAME AND HE WOULD SURELY GO TO A MEDITERRANEAN ISLAND (AND LISTEN TO JAZZ, AND MAKE SPAGHETTI) AND HE DID ALL THESE THINGS. TO THE POINT MALTA HAS A WALLED CITY WITH A HANDLESS CLOCK AND I LEGITIMATELY WONDER IF MY JOKE GUESS ACTUALLY WAS SPOT ON RIGHT. LIKE THAT FEELS LIKE A HYPER SPECIFIC THING TO REFERENCE. ALSO: THIS IS SECRETLY THE FIRST BOOK HE WROTE BEFORE HE PUBLISHED ANYTHING REWRITTEN FOR RELEASE.
PS. I FEEL LIKE IT'S JUST THE COMBINATION OF JUNG AND JAPAN BUT THIS WAS FREAKISHLY PERSONA CODED ABOUT THE AUTISM KID. ALSO, WHAT THE HECK WAS THE AUTISM KID? I WAS LAUGHING ABOUT IT WITH SOMEONE WHEN IT WAS "YOU KNOW, IN A WAY, I'M JUST LIKE HIM BUT LESS SO" FROM GUY WHO WRITES SPEGETTI, JAZZ, BEATLES, DREAM CAT BOOK OVER AND OVER EXACTLY THE SAME, BUT THEN WHEN IT TURNED INTO AUTISM PERSONA I REALLY LOST CONCEPT OF WHAT THE HECK WAS HAPPENING.
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