Belle of the Books did a neat little mash-up of Pride and Prejudice book covers for Weekly Geek, since it’s one of those books that will forever be reprinted and there are a ton of covers to chose from.  It was a neat little exercise showing a lot of variety, and I’ve been meaning to do my own since I absolutely love book cover design.   Pride and Prejudice would have also been my top pick (because it’s one of my favorite books) but alas, for not.  So I’ll be going off the beaten path to bring you one of my favorite translated works: A Wild Sheep Chase.

Before I get to the eye-candy.  I encourage you to check out Belle of the Books.  It’s a really cute blog, one of the many which I still need to add to my sidebar.  >.<  Maybe I’ll get around to that this week.  It’s been on my To Do List for a month but ever time I log into my RSS feed reader it’s just…so…daunting. Gaaaah.  Anyway, COVERS!

That last one is probably my favorite, it’s just a sheep standing besides a hastily drawn tree beneath the red sun.  It’s got a very Shel Silverstein “Where the Sidewalk Ends” feel to it, which is highly appropriate for this book/hunt.  It’s a really bizarre book, but so unbelievably satisfying.  

I believe it was Murakami’s debut work in America. Now this may sound strange, but it always reminded me of some fucked-up form of the Matrix sans the hard-core sci-fi elements, where Unamed is the very passive (seemingly either out of place in regular society) Mr. Anderson character that get’s swept up in this giant government conspiracy/hunt.  So maybe from there the similarities degenerate as the hunt did into a completely twisted adventure involving a very snarky Sheepman…or prophet, eh?, but I still think of the unamed character in this way.  Konnban wa Anderuson-san. 

It’s one of my favorite translated works.  

And if you’ve read the book.  This is going to make perfect sense:

Iamthesheepandthesheepisme.
Wedon’tbreathewhenwespeakinsheepspeak.
Mortalmanbowbeforewe.  Allyourbasearebelongedtome. Baaa.

/End of Line

~ Darcy

This is funny. Via Belle of the Books, a list of the books that people most lie about reading. (I’ve actually once fibbed about reading one of these. Ahem.)