/lit/ - Literature

*lonely bachelor cooks a meal*

>>10836048
I liked After Dark more than Sputnik, my love, which just felt like a watered down version of Norwegian Wood. After Dark is kind of different and there was no sex in itself involved in the whole book.

Now my brother bought me 1Q84, but I feel tired of reading this guy.

>>10332684
Murakami is a kind of grey zone
whilst his novels were originally highly praised both by the general public and in literature circles, it came to pass that many of his works shared too many similarities and simply blend together. There's also been a noticeable decline in his work as of a few years ago. He isn't exactly high art but he's passable. A large percentage of his fanbase are college age women. If you do get any works of his, go for The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (considered his best) and since you're a pleb 1Q84 (the third act is kind a let down but if you're just getting into reading you should develop a taste for long books)

The Road by Mccarthy is pretty good, though most people here will praise The Crossing (part of the Border Trilogy), Suttree, and Blood Meridian much higher. I'd recommend most of his work.

Genre fiction is a pretty big no-no amongst the general populace here (though there is a sci-fi/fantasy containment thread). Douglas Adams is a little too "zany" and lowbrow to be taken seriously against the likes of classic sci-fi authors like PKD, Stanislaw Lem, Bradbury, Poe, and Lovecraft (weird fiction vaguely qualifies as Sci-fi). A playful author that I think is respected here is of course the fantasy author Terry Pratchett. There's a strong Tolkien fanbase worth prying into (if you haven't actually read LOTR you should, its almost nothing like the film) who enjoy many of his lesser known works like the Silmarillion and Children of Hurin, and even a folklore/mythology following of sorts too (there's frequent threads on norse mythology and charts for recommended reading in the area) if that's one of the reasons you like fantasy.

read The Road

You can cross out pretty much everything on the board here for 1Q84

Follow this and you get pretty much all his novels.

why does his work translate so well and resonate for westerners?