/lit/ - Literature

This is his best book, come at me.

http://thehealthywarrior.tumblr.com/post/12643733123/date-a-girl-who-reads-by-rosemarie-urquico-in

>Let her know what you really think of Murakami

What is she implying? Is he some kind of joke in /lit/ circles? Do only hipsters read Murakami

contributing! Good read and same author so you should be golden

Alright, you know that kinda creepy, but mostly gorgeous little dumpling you awkwardly approached in Central because your brother said you could find a hooker there? Well, Murakami's latest work is the perfect way to smooth over that first little stumble with Keely or Janelle or Julian or whatever her too-cool name was.
She's a weirdo and an insomniac, so she'll be very familiar with Haruki -- at least one douche will have already pulled the Norwegian Wood trick with her. His work is murky, charged with a full-bodied humanity, dripping with hints of sexuality. After Dark alternates with ease between disarming and intimate, achieving things in fantasy (or, depending on how you read, the potential of fantasy) that only masters like Bradbury or Gaiman can.
Speaking of Gaiman, why aren't we using The Graveyard Book as our pickup tool? You're practically convinced Willow there collects Sandman figurines. Answer: With Gaiman you can't look into her eyes and say, "His style is amazing, but it's unbelievable how well he understands the energies and possibilities that come with chance human encounters..."
Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. Puppy eyes. Make sure to bring a tube of KY and some band-aids, it's gonna be a ruckus.

A true masterpiece from possibly the best fiction writer this century. Murakami never fails to impress with his carefully crafted worlds. In this novella he veers away from his usual first person narrative and tells a story in third person present tense; the effect is highly cinematic. The reader becomes "a single point of view" taking the form of a "midair camera that can move freely about the room."

The most impressive aspect of this novella is how Murakami courageously battles new genres and themes in each of his works. This novella beautifully compliments his other works. And while it may not be as thorough and rich as "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" or "Kafka on the Shore", reading "After Dark" was as luxurious and hedonistic as slowly sipping a fine glass of red wine. I found myself "biting off and chewing it one line at a time" just as Mari does her own book in "After Dark."

Murakami deserves more than five stars! An excellent piece indeed.

Heard about Murakami so I picked this up. What did /lit/ think? What did /lit/ take some of the symbolism as, mainly the mirror images and the Man with No Face?

thoughts?