Anyone here read Ryu Murakami? Is he any good?

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Anonymous Mon Sep 12 21:54:15 2016 No.8502511 [Reply] [Original]

Anyone here read Ryu Murakami? Is he any good?

Anonymous Mon Sep 12 22:00:20 2016 No.8502535
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>>8502511
Overrated. Like Japanese films, it LOOKS like a novel but there's really no content. It's pure imitation of American or European models without anything inside, like a replicant out of Philip K Dick.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 22:26:38 2016 No.8502591 I've been wanting to read Almost Transparent Blue, but haven't had any luck finding it in a book store. Will cave and buy it online eventually. Any anon that can tell us more about his work?

Anonymous Mon Sep 12 23:02:25 2016 No.8502683

Anyone who claims he's the "better Murakami" is only running on the confidence that not enough people have read Ryu to know that's horseshit. Not that Haruki is a great author, but he at least has a unique sense of style instead of Ryu's edgy sex and death shit slapped on top of truly mediocre unoriginal stories.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 23:05:54 2016 No.8502691 >>8502535 The whole point is that replicants do have something inside them dummy

Anonymous Mon Sep 12 23:37:34 2016 No.8502777

i was actually more impressed with Tao Lin's essay on Almost Transparent Blue than the novel itself. i don't know, i just can't get interested in post-beat tales of disaffected youth on drug-induced sexual escapades.

i'd like to read some of his other work though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 23:40:03 2016 No.8502785 >>8502511 pulpy and overly violent. tries to shock the reader with blood and gore

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