The Best Way to Break Your Heart

Still reading Murakami's Norwegian Wood. This is weird how I prolong my time to eat it up. I read every page carefully, with much feeling. Not gonna rush it and still stuck in early page.

Have you read it?
If you haven't, don't read this post.

Here comes Watanabe. Toru Watanabe. Plain guy yet a massive thinker. A loner. Enjoying his life including its tragedy, losing his only best friend, Kizuki, that caused him losing his beats of adolescent. Painfully in love with Naoko.

Naoko was Kizuki's girlfriend. Weird and very fragile. Naoko was drowning in too much pain, tangled problems and emotion. Troublesome.
yet Watanabe could never let her go. Every bit of her touched him deeply that he could not run away. That every time he missed her, any hole had been dug and become deeper at any case.

Then Watanabe met Kobayashi. Kobayashi Midori. A bizarre proportion of teenager, with witty way of thinking, a little bit dark, craving for huge love. They both grew a kind of mutual addiction.

I don't wanna spill the whole package.

I just wonder how Murakami could put them up together, in the most beautiful form of depression, of losing, of heartbreak.
How he arranged things up and built a character such that...plain but interesting. Slow moving plot. Rich of details. Very very not sensible.
Just like how lustful Watanabe was, how he enjoyed being in love with Naoko, yet dying slowly knowing that a girl he fell for, who ate his time the most even she did not bother to ask,



never loved him back.


A beautiful way to feel heartbreak without really having any is by reading this book. Seriously.