10 posts tagged “books”
Amazon.co.jp にて購入。月曜に注文して金曜にくるとは、Amazon も落ちぶれたのう。ふだんハードカバーは買わない主義だけど、伊坂幸太郎のはなんか面白そうだったのでつい。
Bought a bunch of books from a local bookstore to read in Langkawi, Malaysia, as well as the ones to bring back to San Francisco.
They're all in Japanese but I'm looking forward to reading Murakami's "Wind-up Bird Chronicle" and Simon Singh's "The Code Book".
椎名誠は大好きな作家の1人だけど、著作は主に3種類にわけられる。
- 「岳物語」に代表される私小説
- 「われらは怪しい探検隊」に代表されるキャンプ・旅行記
- 「新宿赤マントシリーズ」に代表される軽薄エッセイ
- 「アド・バード」に代表されるＳＦ
1. の私小説は、「岳物語」や「銀座のカラス」あたりはいいとしても、最近のものは作者のまわりにあまりいい話がないのか、ちょっと鬱気味なストーリーが多くて、あんまり楽しめない。個人的には 2, 3, 4 がどれも好きで、SF モノでは「アド・バード」、「地下生活者・遠灘鮫腹海岸」や近作の「砲艦銀鼠号」が大好き。
で、この「ぱいかじ南海作戦」は帯いわく「シイナワールド全開のサバイバル小説」ということなんだけどまさにその通りで、2. のキャンプ記と 4. のSF風味がいい具合にまじっていて、椎名誠でないと書けないような感じ。今週こっちにきてから1週間かけてよんだけど、つい面白くて最後まで読み終わるのが惜しい感じだった。
１年に５００日あるという記念日をネタに中島らもが書き散らすエッセイ。あっさり読めてしまって物足りないけど、１個１個がみじかいのでちょっとした時間つぶしにはもってこい。
さてこっちに持ってきた本がきれてきた。あとは「地下鉄に乗って」だけ。来週と帰国フライト用にジャパンタウンで仕入れるかなあ。。
この日曜の夕方から読み始めて、夜に読み終わってしまった。
東野作品らしくグイグイ引き寄せる感じはいつもどおり。重く、悲しく、美しいストーリーで、読後感もさわやかというわけにはいかないけど、また読んでみたいという印象を持たせるには十分。
涙なしには読めない、というほど感動的なシーンというのはないけど、ストーリーの重さの積み重ねがじわじわと響いてくる。映画はまだみてないけど、東京に戻ったら見てみたい。こっちのほうがよりわかりやすそう。
I woke up pretty late like 3pm and gave up going to SSA since it'll close on 4. So I finished the last half of Dan Brown's Deception Point.
It was a fun reading again, after Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. At the same time it's pretty funny to see "Who's the mastermind?" story path again and again: "The master said in an uni-sexual voice ..."
I noticed who's the mastermind just before it's actually revaled, but enjoyed it anyway. The story itself is much more interesting than the other two, especially for Japanese readers, I think.
Note that I read them in Japanese paperbacks edition, which was released pretty recently.
Here are books I got to bring for San Francisco. This is another reason I like flights: 8 or 9 hours of nothing else to do, so I can easily turn myself into reading books.
These are probably enough for the flight and first 2 weeks. Later on I need to get more in Kinokuniya, but it costs almost double if I need to buy books imported from Japan, which sucks.
So now, the problem is they're all packed in the cardboard boxes because of the moving and I don't know which one contains 'em.
Thanks to the work done in r13, now I'm able to write a review about books in Amazon.jp. YAY!
"afterdark" is Murakami's newest long story available as in paperback now. Even if it's a long story format, the length of the story is actually a little short: 200 pages or so.
The story goes on by mixing 2 different stories, both of which is related to each other. It's the format Murakami is good at writing, as seen in "Hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world" or "Kafka on the shore".
It sounds like the story is going on at Shibuya. It doesn't have an explicit mention about the place, but the description of various places like the faimily restaurant and "Love hotels" definitely sounds Shibuya-ish. The conversations that took place sound very weird but wonderful also, just like other Murakami stories.
It'll be a very quick read: I finished it in 2 hours but it made me feel some refreshing.
So I'm leaving my apartment now for Narita with these books to read on the planes. (Of course they're both in Japanese)
