5 to recommend & 5 to avoid (just my opinion)
Things that I recommend,
Apple Computers
Japanese green tea
Canada (traveling or even living)
Sorekara (And then) by Soseki Natsume
The Bachelor (movie)
Things that I recommend avoiding,
Windows (especially Windows Vista)
Norwegian Wood (movie)
Fifty Shades of Gray (movie)
Ring (movie & book)
Bento (lunch box) sold in convenience stores in Japan
Soseki Natsume is one author who has influenced my life, along with Nobel Prize nominee Haruki Murakami. I can see some similarities between them. First, their major is English literature. Second, Haruki graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo and Soseki had live in the area for 10 years before he died. But the similarities I’m talking about are in their style or structure. They created stories based on complicated human relationships. There are three main characters, two men and one woman, in each of their stories. Mr. Kizuki, Mr. Watanabe and Naoko are in “Norwegian Wood.” Daisuke (male), Mr. Hiraoka and Michiyo in “Sorekara.”
I would recommend reading “Sorekara” more than “Norwegian Wood,” because Soseki influenced Haruki. Soseki is the founder of the triangle idea. When you read “Sorekara,” you will learn about the early 19th century Japan, when the country first opened to foreign trade and diplomacy. His descriptions in the story gave me a glimpse of the confusion of that time.
I would recommend avoiding the movie version of “Norwegian Wood,” although I do recommend the book. I feel that the movie emphasizes sexual scenes more than the storyline, even though the story has so many aspects - complicated human relationships, life and death, love, confusion, democracy, growth, peace, identity and so on. The story can probably be expressed from several different angles. I feel the most important points did not leave much of an impression in the movie. Before “Norwegian Wood”, I had never read a book three or more times. When I read it for the first time, I hated it, because I could only see the sex and dark side in it. But the second time, I discovered “life and death” and the book’s core, which is “to live.” The more I read it, the more I discovered new things. It is very interesting and I finally reached the conclusion that the main topic might be “democracy.” Unfortunately, I cannot find that topic in the movie.
Apple Computers
Japanese green tea
Canada (traveling or even living)
Sorekara (And then) by Soseki Natsume
The Bachelor (movie)
Things that I recommend avoiding,
Windows (especially Windows Vista)
Norwegian Wood (movie)
Fifty Shades of Gray (movie)
Ring (movie & book)
Bento (lunch box) sold in convenience stores in Japan
Soseki Natsume is one author who has influenced my life, along with Nobel Prize nominee Haruki Murakami. I can see some similarities between them. First, their major is English literature. Second, Haruki graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo and Soseki had live in the area for 10 years before he died. But the similarities I’m talking about are in their style or structure. They created stories based on complicated human relationships. There are three main characters, two men and one woman, in each of their stories. Mr. Kizuki, Mr. Watanabe and Naoko are in “Norwegian Wood.” Daisuke (male), Mr. Hiraoka and Michiyo in “Sorekara.”
I would recommend reading “Sorekara” more than “Norwegian Wood,” because Soseki influenced Haruki. Soseki is the founder of the triangle idea. When you read “Sorekara,” you will learn about the early 19th century Japan, when the country first opened to foreign trade and diplomacy. His descriptions in the story gave me a glimpse of the confusion of that time.
I would recommend avoiding the movie version of “Norwegian Wood,” although I do recommend the book. I feel that the movie emphasizes sexual scenes more than the storyline, even though the story has so many aspects - complicated human relationships, life and death, love, confusion, democracy, growth, peace, identity and so on. The story can probably be expressed from several different angles. I feel the most important points did not leave much of an impression in the movie. Before “Norwegian Wood”, I had never read a book three or more times. When I read it for the first time, I hated it, because I could only see the sex and dark side in it. But the second time, I discovered “life and death” and the book’s core, which is “to live.” The more I read it, the more I discovered new things. It is very interesting and I finally reached the conclusion that the main topic might be “democracy.” Unfortunately, I cannot find that topic in the movie.
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