/lit/ - Literature

>>10318912
I've read only two of his works, "Kafka on the Shore" and "Norwegian Wood". I found the first as something quite good actually. Murakami lets the story flow madly and on its own (this has of course its BIG downsides). There are things, dare I say, that I find ridicule. That girl giving the handjob to the protagonist FOR NO REASON and some other things. No muh spoiler because it is in the first fucking hundred pages. Nakata best character imo.

Norwegian Wood, on the other side, was UTTER shit. I think he said somewhere that it was some kind of experiment. Ok, fuck your experiment, try again sweety.

I find this author being either sort of a genius sometimes impressing the reader with stories that at first seem clueless and turn out to be quite enjoyable or a fucking tryhard hack that writes piles of shit like the pages contained in Norwegian Wood.

I started reading the "Wind Bird Chronicle" but abandoned at 100 ish pages for no reason.

That's my Murakami experience.