What I Talk about When I Talk about R..., Haruki Murakami Translated by Philip Gabriel
What I Talk about When I Talk about R..., Haruki Murakami Translated by Philip Gabriel
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What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
A Memoir

Author: Haruki Murakami; Translated by Philip Gabriel

Narrator: Ray Porter

Unabridged: 4 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/29/2008

Synopsis

Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his fourmonth preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon. Settings range from Tokyo, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvelous lens of sport emerges a cornucopia of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of having seen his race times improve and then fall back.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs

To get through life some people drink copious amounts of alcohol to de-stress. Others smoke tobacco or cannabis. Some try heavier substances. My drug of choice, my way of clearing my head, calming down and escaping for a few hours, is to run. I am an absolute junkie. Sometimes I feel like I live to......more

Goodreads review by Jack

This book is literally so pointless......more

Goodreads review by emma

i don't care about running, but i do care about murakami. and this was VERY murakami: thoughtful, unique, addicted to writing about women in the strangest and most objectifying way for genuinely no reason. you have to hand it to the guy: he meets your expectations. bottom line: this one's for the fans......more

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