Everyone looking after themselves? I started a new workout routine and I’ve quit smoking (mostly) and it’s really helped.

Hope everyone is okay wherever you are!!

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    2 years ago

    Recommend the books you mean? Planetes is fun. It takes place in the future and it’s about a trash collecting service in space. It has a twist with some activist-terrorism. The drawings are mental as well.

    The Murakami one is a typical Murakami book, and so far not really in a great way. If you’ve ever read a Murakami book you might know what I mean with that lol.

    My main plan for the trip is to go to the Balkans, mainly Slovenia and maybe Albania or Montenegro. The backup is Basque Country + Asturias’ mountains. Two very different places with different cultures, food, weather and landscapes. But they have one thing in common: bears. There’s lots of wild bears in these areas. I’d love to see some bears in the wild. But I haven’t decided which one it will be yet. Might be an actual coin toss really. They also both have a very interesting leftist history, which is always a plus.

    • Ratette (she/her)@lemmygrad.mlOP
      8·
      2 years ago

      Awwwh that sounds great I might have to give it a look.

      I haven’t you know 😳 I feel like a loser now hahaha

      Awwwh cool! Yeah I think a lot of my friends wanted to go travelling but where ignorant or didn’t care about half the history they were missing and it felt really sad, like If you travelled then surely the point is to learn?

      Bears 🥰 so cute when I’m not within a mile of one!

      • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
        7·
        2 years ago

        The point of travelling is to drink buckets full of mixed drinks to the point where your puke and shit are the colour of Flügel all the while you’re using your tongue as a washing machine in the mouth of a lass who ate nothing but garlic sauce induced kebabs for ten days straight. That’s the life mate.

    • Comrade AppleDash@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      I’ve read myself some Murakami and I definitely know what you mean lol. I find sometimes he meanders way too much on certain elements of his stories without ever really pulling them together in a way that pays off, so it just ends up being another case of “this main guy meets a bunch of wacky people and hijinks ensue” without any real centering of the story. Wind Up Bird Chronicle is another book of his where this really shows. I couldn’t even finish it, it just got so tiring to read.

      Then again, he can also write really well when he wants to. Norwegian Wood is an absolutely amazing book. I highly recommend it to anyone who is coming of age, especially in this generation where we’re seeing the same patterns of political culture during the 1960s, when the book takes place.

      What I do appreciate about Murakami, though, is all the subtle ways he deconstructs and mocks traditional Japanese society, especially in Norwegian Wood and Wind Up Bird Chronicle, even if I didn’t enjoy the latter. He also demystifies a lot about Japan too, which is really nice.