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Does anyone here read Japanese books?

What's your favourites?

>> No.9781162

Kafka on the shore by Murakami, the setting sun was nice too.

>> No.9781166
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>> No.9781171

>>9781162
I really liked After Dark, just the general atmosphere of that book was unlike any other book I've ever read. Won me over and I went and bought a collection of Murakami short stories, really satisfied with that too.

>> No.9781183

Murakami is for normalfags

>> No.9781192

I read the translated Trapeze Books, they were pretty good,
might read the originals some time now that I actually could.
I also read this norwegian wood thing and it was crap.
That's about it I guess.

>> No.9781208

>>9781192

Why didn't you like Norwegian Wood?

>> No.9781211

Yasutaka Tsutsui's short stories were pretty good. "The Very Edge of Happiness" I remember as one of my favorites.

>> No.9781226

>>9781208
It was pretty much nukige quality in both story aswell as amount of useless sex scenes.
Especially the latter was really weird and unnecessary.

>> No.9781227
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He committed Seppuku

>> No.9781232

>>9781227
>seppuku

It's spelled "sudoku", you fucking idiot.

>> No.9781249

>>9781227
I've been meaning to read his Sea of Fertility Tetralogy.

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>>9781232
>really hope he's trolling

>> No.9781291 [DELETED] 

>>9781274
who r u quot

>> No.9781352

>>9781232
Haha fucken trolled you. Who's the idoit now?

>> No.9781359

I liked Battle Royale and Welcome to the NHK.

Those are the only nip books I've read though.

>> No.9781376

The Ring series was pretty good. Got a little weird at the end. It was much better than the movie.

>> No.9781400

>>9781359

Isnt that like hunger games or something

>> No.9781430
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Yes. I'm trying to get through The Tale of Genji in Japanese while reading it alongside a translation. It's slow going but getting through the original text is infinitely more rewarding. The translation is quite good though, but it just doesn't "get" it completely, which is often the case with these translations of classics.

>> No.9781512
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>> No.9781559

A Rabbit's Eyes
Naoko (depressing as fuq, but good)

>> No.9781595

I most surely am not going to pay for those mongol books, I am just wondering where I could download them, never have I got the answer though.

>> No.9781625

Only Norwegian Wood. The storytelling and character development unbelievably retarded and illogical.

>> No.9781631

>>9781628
>No Longer Huamn
Is this about a Chinese guy who get's disowned by his family?

>> No.9781628

>No Longer Huamn

I know too many of those feels. It's a little worrying.

>> No.9781636

I can't read anything anymore that has a realistic setting in the years of 2008 and lower, I just can't immerse myself anymore in those different times of moral values and technology

>> No.9781642

>>9781636
Look at this faggot.

>> No.9781648

Only two:
>Welcome to the NHK
Great read. I really enjoy Takimoto's terse, but powerful style.

>South of the Border, West of the Sun
Amazing read. Incredibly wistful, melancholic, and nostalgic. I'm surprised to see so much disappointment at Norwegian Wood if Murakami's style in South of the Border is anything to go by.

>> No.9781654

>No longer human
Anime doesn't belong on /jp/.

>> No.9781655

Kafka on the Shore was shit. It's like he had /b/ plan a book, then added a shitload of ivory-tower philosophy and chicken kingpins to it.

>> No.9781658

>>9781648

It's good.

Literature is just 2deep4them

>> No.9781678

/jp/ I can't read, what's the best way to start learning?

>> No.9781695

>>9781678

Just learn Japanese. English will be outdated when the Chinese takeover the world and then adopt the Japanese language since it's more efficient.

>> No.9781697

>>9781678
Learn Ancient Greek and read Homer's Odyssey, then proceed chronologically from there.

>> No.9781700

>>9781695
What the fuck am I reading?

>> No.9781701

>>9781695
>>9781697
Why the fuck are you idiots responding when he can't even read your replies?

>> No.9781742

I'm reading through 人間の条件.

>>9781352

Holy shit. I just noticed with your post.

If you put an actual email in the email field, the icons for facebook and myspace search comes up.

Holy fucking shit.

>> No.9781747

>>9781742
Time to uninstall your shitty extensions.

>> No.9781749 [DELETED] 

>>9781742
test

>> No.9781758

>>9781747

Haha you're right, I guess it just came with the backtrace extension. I probably noticed it just now because it's so rare for people to post their emails.

>> No.9781784

>>9781758
http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363

Too late, found you.

>> No.9781804

i like all kinds of japanese authors haruki murakami, .. the list goes on

>> No.9781847

>>9781595
http://pastebin.com/U9HuixWY
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Bookz

Try these?

>> No.9782113

>>9781847
Do they have japanese books?

>> No.9782141

>>9782113
Want me to chew your food too?

>> No.9782174

What are some jap books that don't involve lolsuicide?

>> No.9782198

Read Abe, Dazai, Sakaguchi, Soseki and Kawabata and you'll have a pretty good understanding of Japanese fiction.


>>9781658
Except Murakami isn't literature.

>> No.9782203

>>9781804
I don't usually do this but I'm responding to say that I found your post very funny. Thank you. Hopefully you're still posting.

>> No.9782525

>>9782141
Well, thanks for the irc-channel thingy anyway.

>> No.9783165

When I was a teenager I liked Banana Yoshimoto's writing.

I also like Miri Yu's writing but she's technically a Korean.

>> No.9783573

The Box Man (kobo abe)

All of Shusaku Endo's books (especially Silence)

No Longer Human

Kokoro, Thousand Cranes, etc.

It's all pretty good.

>> No.9783612

fuck off weebs

>> No.9784915
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Everything Mishima

>> No.9785123
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The one true classic, motherfuckers.

Side bonus: if you ever entertained thoughts of teaching English at a Japanese school, skip those fucking "herp derp my years on JET" vanity press books and read this. Soseki tells shit like it is.

>> No.9785138

>>9781430
> worst translation of The Pillow Book
> Mishima Mishima Mishima
> Norwegian Wood and The Rape Journey of Young Kafka, but no Sputnik Sweetheart

lol ok

>> No.9785147

>>9781430
>not reading tale of genji
>in classical japanese

Bro, you aren't getting it either.

>> No.9785150

>>9785138
>Mishima
>The dude who couldn't even open a portal to gensokyo right

>> No.9785164

>>9785123
- If you come to the Japanese inaka from anywhere else people will stare openly in the street and your students will stalk you.
- The more sanctimonious a character is, the more likely he is to be secretly running around with whores.
- Everyone is a raging cunt, including the protagonist, aside from one old lady and one nice gentleman who gets completely fucked over by the system.
- The only thing that solves problems or gets shit done is violence.

Sounds about right, actually.

I second the rec, actually. Botchan is entertaining as hell.

This guy did an entertaining modern-language translation of it, which sadly is no longer online for free: no-sword.jp/botchan/

>> No.9785183

>>9781430
What the Fuck? You post Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, but not his main core works of The Sea of Fertility?
You're Understanding of Post-War Japanese Literature needs improvement.
>>9785138
>>9785150
Mishima is widly accepted as the greatest Post-War Japanese writer and most widely known Japanese writer on the planet/western world.
The fact that you mock him means you know nothing of his work. I won't back down on this statement.

>> No.9785190

>>9785183
>wild romanticist

Lol ok.

Akira Kurosawa is the best known Japanese director in the western world too. You have no taste.

>> No.9785205

>>9785183
netouyoboo, go home.

Or at least try to keep your homolust in check. That's like the only thing that your idol was really good at, after all.

>> No.9785264

>>9785190
He was great , but Mishima was by Japan s loved too at one point. Yukio reflected post-war Japan very well and his predictions of what Japan would become have already taken place.
>>9785205
I'm not homo and just because he was homo doesn't mean he wasn't enlightened with at least with some meaning/definition of what it means to be a Man, especially a Japanese man.

>> No.9785275

I seriously hope the book in the OP is about transcending the shell of a human and/or becoming a youkai

>> No.9785277

>>9781151
lolno im not a f*ckin weebaboo

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