-The Book I've read recently-

終於,看了第一本出自村上春樹(Haruki Murakami )手筆的書 --<< 關於跑步,我說的其實是>>("What I want to talk about when I talk about running")。
我看的是英文版本,原想看中文版,不過圖書館的等候名單實在太太太長,我相信我要等到下年。
碰巧見到英文版,便借了。

我認為對從未接觸過村上先生的書的讀者,這書是一個不錯的選擇和開始;它讓你對村上有一個初步認識,他的為人,他的處事方式,他的生活態度......而且本書易明易看,沒有什麼難理解的字詞(因為以前曾翻閱過村上的一本書,忘記了書名,只記得是一本關於古典音樂或是電影的書,那裡有很多看完也不懂又很長的專有名辭<<<恕本人孤陋寡聞,還未懂欣賞這些)。

書中有不少道理我亦很認同,也有不少是我一直以來對人生的看法:

"The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school."

"You cannot please everybody."

"I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I've had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a chance, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself." (打完這句,突然想起村上先生因早睡的習慣而推掉很多夜間約會,惹起不少朋友的不滿)

"I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society.If something interested me, and I could study it at my own pace and approach it the way I liked, I was pretty efficient at acquiring knowledge and skills......It takes a lot of time to acquire a skill this way, and you go through lots of trial and error, but what you learn sticks with you."

"You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring."

"If something's worth doing, it's worth giving it your best--or in some cases beyond your best."