/lit/ - Literature

all japanese books are shit

>>17324551
yeah fuckin maybe idk man i liked this book a lot but the cat shit with nakata or whatever his name was really just made me lose interest fast. also i kept picturing [nakata(?)] having this weird retarded, half-japanese, dr doofenscmirtz voice and i didn't like that. maybe i'm just racist lol

Murakami, generally, is trash. His books are not worth reading and all of his characters are forgettable ciphers.

glad i didnt fall for it

btw

https://opensyllabus.org/

>>17324542
Yes

>>17324567
That made you disinterested? I'd say the Nakata parts were less dull and shit than the blatantly obvious self insert 15 year-old, who fucks his mom.

>>17324582
This

>>17324551
Stop reading Murakami and start reading Mishima you pleb

>>17324551
Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Mishima are genuinely great writers.

>>17324582
I wanna feel like a teenage girl, however.

>>17324567
those were the best parts, you clearly have no taste anon

>>17324542
the best thing Murakami wrote was his The Rat Series. Especially Dance Dance Dance.

>>17325557
Yeah the Nakata parts made the book imo.
>>17324542
Lame, not his best work but it isn't bad.
>>17326091
Alright taste, I prefer his short stories and Hard Boiled Wonderland.

>>17324542
fuck off, I like Murakami

>>17326764

>>17324542
>Haruki Murakami
That's what you got for reading the wrong murakami

>>17324542
Only his short stories are good, no idea why most people only read his novels. Here are my two favorites "Barn Burning" and "The Second Bakery Attack"
http://web.mit.edu/norvin/www/somethingelse/murakami.html
https://www.mrflamm.com/uploads/2/2/0/0/2200902/barnburningbyharukimurakami.pdf

>>17326694
I bought sputnik sweetheart recently cos i confused it for the one people said was good. It wasn't great desu. Wind Up Bird is good though

>>17327093
I haven't really read that one. If you feel that his tropes are what make his work bad you might enjoy his short stories, so I'd recommend reading The Elephant Vanishes.

Am I the only one who likes all Murakami except Kafka? It reads like an overblown parody of Murakami's style; not enjoyable at all. I feel sorry for people who start with either Kafka or Norwegian Wood
I think Wind-up Bird is his best.

>>17327275
I understand why you feel that way, it kinda does feel like that. Mind you I like the book, unlike most of the anons I've seen talk about it. he's a better short story writer imo but some of his novels are good as well.

His best

>>17326091
>>17326899
>>17327275
What do you think of Murakami's nonfiction? For example the one about long distance running.

>>17324582
then whys he so famous?

>>17325557
i liked the rainy day feel of the main story. the surrealism of both i enjoyed too but it got to a point where i just didn't care anymore.
>>17325824
yeah you're probably right lol

>>17327858
Not that guy, but lots of "token" authors are famous for filling a niche. He's the "living Jap" token.

>>17324542

murakami is chick lit

>>17327815
I really liked what i've read of ''what I talk about when i talk about running''. I hear good things about the book he wrote about the terrorist attack in Tokyo too.

>>17327990
Chicks hate Murakami because he spends half his pages describing the shape, size and sometimes taste of womens areolas.

Anyway, A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance, dance, dance are fine books and I’ll stand by that.

>>17328125
In my experience women like Murakami.

I hate IQ84 and most of norwegian wood. I liked the mushroom part of kafka. That's about it

>>17328125
>Chicks hate Murakami because he spends half his pages describing the shape, size and sometimes taste of womens areolas.

You don't have any idea what you're talking about. Women love that shit.

>>17328183
1Q84 is probably his most embarrassing. The kind of book you half expect to be published anonymously because nobody really should want their name on it.

>>17328219
plebs gonna pleb

>>17328183
> the mushroom part of kafka
I cannot remember any part that had anything to do with mushrooms?

>>17327985
lmao I still need to watch this show.
>>17328048
I read a bit of the Underground subway bombing book. It was a thing, 99% of it is transcriptions of interviews not really something to read straight through. It was interesting enough, though I wouldn't pay for it

>>17328219
1q84 was peculiar, at least up until the second book. If he dumped the whole writer persona - because fucking Murakami has to always have a self insert in his stories - and just focused on cute assassin shenanigans, it would be a solid entry. The third book is fucking shit and it made me lose interest in Murakami.