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>Haruki Murakami

So I'm currently reading my forth book of his and...

Are sex scenes reeeally necessary into the story? I mean, why? Does he get horny while writing or something?

Also, Kafka's and Tokio Blues' main characters are dick heads. Are all of his MCs such a douchebags?

>> No.2658427

I liked the lesbian of Sputnik. But yeah, all of the other MC's are dbags. I think they're meant to be that way...

Murakami's just too much of a hipster so he doesn't want anybody to feel related to any of his characters.

And no, sex scenes aren't necessary for the plot to continue. He's just Japanese and Japanese people are huge perverts.

>> No.2658426

i wish all books were just one big giant sex scenes

>> No.2658431

Tokio Blues MC was okay.

Although fucking that cougar while he had the other girl waiting for him was a dick move.

Kafka was a faggot. Oshima's where is at.

>> No.2658441

Are you me, OP? Although I'm reading my third book, Wind-up bird chronicle.

I recently began reading the second part and he's already fucking in his dreams. Thus far, it's really been absurd.

>> No.2658448

Murakami has based most of the MCs of his books in his own image.

Ergo, Murakami's a douchebag as well. Deal with it and enjoy the secondary characters like Nagasawa or Nakata.

>> No.2658456
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2658456

>>2658448

>Nagasawa

But he's like the King of douchebags.

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>>2658448

>Nagasawa

>> No.2658466

>>2658441

That's Murakami's fanboys' favourite book.

I think it was meh as fuck. I stopped reading when that old dude died and gave the MC an empty book. It was stupid as fuck and fuck you for remind me of that shit.

>> No.2658472

>>2658466

Not even close.

A Wild Sheep Chase's by far his best work. At least imho.

>> No.2658481

I'm about fifty percent through Kafka on the Shore. What's your problem with Kafka, just out of curiosity? I mean, he's pretty self-absorbed and all but what do you expect from a fifteen year old?

>> No.2658486

Hard-Boiled Wonderland > Everything else.

>> No.2658494

>>2658399
>Are sex scenes reeeally necessary into the story?
People usually have sex, sex usually lead people to feel.

>I mean, why? Does he get horny while writing or something?
Probably, but still.

>> No.2658499

>>2658481

There's this chapter where he's talking to Saeki and he tells her that he's been on his own and nobody has helped him thus far.

That shit almost made me drop that fucking book like it's hot. Oshima has been nothing but a bro to you, sheltered you in both his own house and the fucking library, and you go and say that shit.

I'm sorry but fuck you, Kafka. You and your shitty Crow persona.

I mad.

>> No.2658503

>>2658499
>but what do you expect from a fifteen year old?
>but what do you expect from a fifteen year old?
>but what do you expect from a fifteen year old?
>but what do you expect from a fifteen year old?
>but what do you expect from a fifteen year old?
>but what do you expect from a fifteen year old?

>> No.2658508

>>2658494

But Murakami's main characters are supposed to not feel anything. Remember K from Sputnik?

>> No.2658514

>>2658508
I'm pretty sure the guy from Tokio Blues felt a lot of feels ya know

>> No.2658516

>>2658499
Also, it could have been that he wanted to look tough so she would let him fuck her.

and it worked

>> No.2658520

>>2658503

I wasn't an ungrateful bastard back when I was 15...nor a pretentious hipster, for that matter.

>> No.2658526

>>2658520
I didn't know writers should all base their characters on you.

>> No.2658528

Murakami's best book is Underground, oddly enough almost none of it is his writing

>> No.2658530

>>2658516

She fucked him because to a certain degree, she knew Kafka was her lover's reincarnation. Not because he was being edgy.

>> No.2658534

>>2658520
I was. I'm still a bit of a bastard but I'm not a hipster any more.

>> No.2658536

>>2658526

I wasn't the one who generalized 15 yeard old kids, though. It was you.

>> No.2658538

>>2658534
That rage sage

>> No.2658545

>>2658538
I use sage when my post isn't worth bumping a thread for. Take a leaf my friend.

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2658548

>You will never have sex with a 40-50 yeard old lady

Also, that loli x older woman scene on Tokio Blues was golden.

>> No.2658550

>>2658545
>being this mad

>> No.2658564
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2658564

>people calling it Tokyo Blues instead of Norwegian Wood

>> No.2658566
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2658566

>Tokio Blues
Handjobs: The Book

>Kafka on the Shore
Straight Shota: The Book

>Sputnik, Sweetheart
Lesbians: The Book

>Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Sex dreams: The Book

>> No.2658572

>>2658564
Oh that's what they were talking about

>> No.2658573

>>2658564

Why is it even called Tokio Blues? I thought the MC was a jazz player, trying to form a band in Tokio or some suave shit like that.

Instead, I got an emo fag who fucks crazy girls around.

>> No.2658579

>>2658564
I just don't like the Beatles

>> No.2658581

>>2658448

Nakata is by FAR the best character Murakami has ever created.

>> No.2658583

>>2658573

Crazy bitches with shit taste. I mean, listening to the Beatles is for plebs.

>> No.2658586

>>2658573
>Why is it even called Tokio Blues?
Well it's not unless you're dirty spic.

>> No.2658587

>>2658573
Because they all move to Tokyo and get upset

>> No.2658602

>>2658586

I'm Russian.

>> No.2658609

>>2658602
Spic of the east.

>> No.2658651

While I don't think the sex scenes are utterly necessary, I feel like they fit.
I mean, I've only read two of his books (WInd-up Bird Chronicle and Kafka), and in each case I got a distinct dreamlike vibe. In a universe where the physics are dodgy at best at everything plays out like a dream, the sex scenes are fitting because of how huge a part of the human psyche sex is.

>> No.2658663

>>2658548

He should make a MILF x younger lady book next.

Sputnik doesn't count.

>> No.2658730

Has he made a foot fetish related scene in any of his other books? Only thing I can remember is when Kafka described Saeki's pretty feet.

>> No.2658990

>>2658651
I agree. So far I've read Sputnik and am halfway through The Wind-Up Bird and I don't feel that the sex and desire is out of place. As humans we have unrequited love feels for friends that we would do anything for and moments in which we are wildly attracted to people we know we shouldn't be. Murakami is making his characters seem like someone you'd pass on the street, not counting the few oddball characters, while being placed in odd circumstances.

>> No.2658995

>>2658566
>After The Quake
>The Elephant Vanishes
whyboner-lite: the book

>A Wild Sheep Chase
Ears & Your Dick: The Book

>> No.2659258

He just has narrators that are brutally honest and outspoken, or at least characters in the books that are. I mean really, how often do you think about sex? How often does it cross your mind? His narrators are just doing and explaining what's going on in most everyone's head anyway, they just don't do anything to hide it. And like somebody said, the stories often play out like dreams where logic isn't 100% sound, and like in dreams sex is very important.