the aesthetics of ugliness was: antw. light summer reading

[cj hurtt]

well, i am not really a kid anymore (except in spirit) being 25 and all.
i found out about the wind up bird the same way i heard about thomas
pynchon...a review in the seattle publication the stranger. they reviewed
m&d and so i went to buy it and bought gr instead.
got wind up bird a few years later and it quickly became one of my all time
favorites. i don't know of a single person who didn't care for it.
although...there were a few parents who were angry after their kids showed
them catcher in the rye...but they shouldn't rely on the opinions of
strangers when it comes to their own kids.
i also read ellison at a young age.

cj..who just realized he's been on this list for 5 years.


>Kids reading (H.) Murakami.  The mind boggles.  Then
>again, I read TCOL49 (along with [H.} Ellison, Lem and
>[F.] Herbert) in 6th grade, so ...
>
>--- cj hurtt <cj6 at casco.net> wrote:
>>
>> reading the great wind up bird chronicle for the
>> third time right now.  when i worked in a book
>> store, it was my favorite book to recomend to
>> people.  that and catcher in the rye to parents who
>> asked me what book their child would like.
>
>But TWUPC and Hard-Boiled Wonderland ... are all I've
>gotten to, though I do have a little Kodansha trans.
>of Norwegian Wood that I keep intending to start in
>on.  Question is, though, what would their parents
>have to say about that?  Very good ...
>
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