Most often through my read I felt I was him. I have experienced every bit of feelings the author speaks of fwhile running and off while practicing. I like the fact that Author dint just make it a guide book for running, it was a beautiful way of narrating his experiences and that was very touchy and similar. You made me a runner again, every chapter kept telling me to get to my shoes again and all that happens there in the head is very normal as a runner. I am reading this author for the first time and I have already purchased 3 more books of his based on public reviews, I like his writing. Thanks for bringing this book, I will always come back to read this again.
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There are as many books in bookstores about the craft of writing as there are about the endeavour of long distance running. In What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Murakami, who has been writing for as long as he's been running to keep in shape, posits that the two endeavours require the same basic disciplines - focus and endurance. "Fortunately, these two disciplines - focus and endurance - are different from talent, since they can be acquired and sharpened through training. You'll naturally learn both concentration and endurance when you sit down every day at your desk and train yourself to focus on one point. This is a lot like the training of muscles... You have to continually transmit the object of your focus to your entire body, and make sure it thoroughly assimilates the information necessary for you to write every single day and concentrate on the work at hand. And gradually you'll expand the limits of what you're able to do. Almost imperceptibly, you'll make the bar rise. This involves the same process as jogging everyday to strengthen your muscles and develop a runner's physique. Add a stimulus and keep it up. And repeat." If it is just the writing advice you're interested in, it has been summed up in the above quote. There are no specific insights about the craft of writing or even his process of writing. But die hard fans of Murakami will appreciate this memoir styled as a collection of essays about his preparation and experiences and sometimes failures in different marathons, an ultra marathon and a couple of triathlons. Whether he meant it to or not, the essays present a better sense of the person he is - an ordinary man, sometimes vain, sometimes competitive, sometimes stuck, who has managed to run and write for so many decades because he kept showing up on the track and at his desk. Maybe the book inspires you to run. Maybe it inspires you to write. Or maybe you can apply this lesson elsewhere.
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- Reviewed in India on 3 October 2019Verified Purchase
This is my first Murakami and probably my last as well. Don't get me wrong. I've enjoyed the book immensely and this is perhaps the best book on running that I've ever read. The reason for not reading any further Murakami is that: I simply don't like to read the fantastical or magic realism or post-modernist or any such weird kind of storytelling. I prefer realistic narration. But this present book is not a work of fiction, so I didn't have any qualm.
This is more of a personal journal/"training log" than a memoir or autobiography. A meticulous, heartfelt and intimate account of his preparation for participating in the New York City Marathon of 2005. Though sometimes he reminisces his journey as a long distance runner for almost three decades, and his thoughts on running as a passion and philosophy, and life in general.
I've thoroughly enjoyed the book and it has inspired me a lot. I love running and his thoughts are akin to what I myself think about running. The writing style is non-confrontational, jovial and captivating. And his passion and seriousness is praiseworthy and inspiring.
Get this book to find out what Haruki Murakami has to talk about when he talks about running.
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- Luis A.Reviewed in Japan on 25 September 2022
Good and easy reading.
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Juliano DellameaReviewed in Brazil on 3 January 2017
Uma grande inspiração
Verified Purchase - John Marshall TannerReviewed in the United States on 3 August 2008
Wonderful running memoir by one of my favorite authors.
Verified Purchase - CarinReviewed in Singapore on 5 April 2024
buy it. devour it. again and again
Verified Purchase - StephenReviewed in Australia on 3 February 2022
my writing running guide
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