Summary: It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company’s advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the … Continue reading
Summary: One broken man battles a brutal gang of pickpockets on board the Amtrak Crescent with some help from a girl who’s no angel–not yet. Hitchcock meets Tarantino in a tale that fuses high drama, suspense and romance. The novel was inspired by an old James Coburn film called Harry In Your Pocket. And Reb’s additional … Continue reading
… after the book, the music. So, so many musical references in Murakami’s Norwegian Wood that I couldn’t resist making a playlist to go with it. I don’t pretend that this is an exhaustive list of the songs and music mentioned in the book, and the problem putting it together on Spotify is that there aren’t … Continue reading
Résumé: Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the … Continue reading
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