From wild sheep to selfish gene
A Wild Sheep Chase was "The first book where I could feel a kind of sensation, the joy of telling a story. When you read a good story, you just keep reading. When I write a good story, I just keep writing."
___Haruki Murakami
I read Murakami’s novel "Dance, Dance, Dance" and Norwegian Wood 10 years ago, but couldn’t remember any plot. A wild sheep chase is so different and interesting story that strongly impressed me, which I just finished reading yesterday…from his surrealistic writing, "Westernized style, idiosyncratic humor, and poignant nostalgia." he is very popular in Japan and China.
His idea in this book reminds me a book by Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, which make arguments that human body is the carrier of gene, so gene is the sheep in Murakami’s novel, is it just a coincidence? ….and then I read a old news this morning about Micheal Crichton, who died of cancer last November, who is a popular scifi writer, whom I know from "JURASSIC PARK" and "stroke"….
So I want to read more books…
