/lit/ - Literature

>>19528957

Overall your collection is very similar to mine, I have read and planned to read about 30% of the books that you have on the pic there.

Based on your totalitarianism books, you would likely really love:
>Fahrenheit 451
>Brave New World

Cult classic novels that revolve around mental illness, beauty, love, life, as well as the polar opposites:
>Norwegian Wood by Murakami
>Notes from The Underground by Dostoevsky

Why is Haruki Murakami so popular

>>17571575
this is only book u need
everything else I've saw on this board falls into one more categorres: athiest fedora, heresy, immature toddler

>>17430383
>Cant even write a descent conventional novel
>Tries to branch out into something that requires more skill
Why should I even bother?

I read Norwegian Wood and I wasn't particularly impressed. I'd heard a lot about Murakami, from this board and from friends, but what I got was frustratingly average. The language wasn't exciting and the insights didn't strike deeply. It felt like I was reading the very good novel of a high-school student because the sentiments (and perhaps the tone of the translation) felt a bit platitudinous. Overall it was surprisingly middle-of-the-road. I'm actually pretty disappointed considering the literary hype; I was expecting something more original. (For example, it didn't hold a candle to Catcher in the Rye, which treads a similar theme. Catcher in the Rye had a violence and viscerality to it, an originality of image and sentiment, as in things had a real life to them in the book. In Norwegian Wood, it felt as the characters and situations were contrived (like the stupid dinner with the rich guy and his girlfriend), not entirely original, washed out, except perhaps Reiko.)

My question is, why should I read Murakami? What am I going to get from a different work of his? Why is he mentioned so often?

>>17383064

unironically this

Murakami's best work also happens to be his most accessible

this book fucking rules though

BASED Nagasawa

I enjoyed reading this book. Midori was amusing. Almost too amusing.

What are your thoughts on it? Were you as attracted to Midori as I was?

How come he fucked the piano teacher at the end? I didn't like that one bit

Just finished this

What did I think of it?

>>12615068
It's no masterpiece, but it sure as hell has enough suicide in it.

>>12338387
read anything else by Murakami?

currently reading and last song you listened to

Norwegian Wood

that guy screaming at the Trump supporter in the tobacco store

Post books that start off great but begin to suck at some point and have a bad ending.

Pic related.

Norweigan Wood is a pretty feelsy one

What did you guys think of this? I'm going to go into a career of cartography after stormtrooper inspired me

Was Reiko a sexual predator? And did she manipulate Naoko into committing suicide?

Thoughts on this /lit/?

Is it worth my time?

>young man under 30
>weird relationship with mother
>pushes girls away but is lonely
>liberal
>interested in philosophy but is really a total dilettante
>writes fiction about effects of technology on man
>is actually hopelessly, pathetically nice

Norwegian Wood but I didn't really like it

What does /lit/ think of this book? I found it to be very enjoyable.