This book... it made me dislike Haruki Murakami. It all starts as a tender childhood love story, like enjoying South Of The Border; the song at a really young age... and then... really made me give up on Murakami.

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MartinLumbreardo!cmTkv0K4y. 07/16/13 (Tue) 04:45:49 No.375

This book… it made me dislike Haruki Murakami. It all starts as a tender childhood love story, like enjoying South Of The Border; the song at a really young age… and then… really made me give up on Murakami.

MartinLumbreardo!cmTkv0K4y. 07/16/13 (Tue) 04:47:55 No.376

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This one is also stupid. It starts out as his big lesbian book, but ends with things about alternate realities, karma and such.

Anonymous 07/16/13 (Tue) 06:10:27 No.377

I feel like, thanks to Tumblr, I've already read everything Murakami has written.

Anonymous 07/16/13 (Tue) 06:27:51 No.378

I like books where they start out really easy and then put you in positions where you have to think critically.

Anonymous 07/26/13 (Fri) 15:10:05 No.382

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I haven't read either of those, but even if they're not so good I doubt they can do anything to dissuade me from the brilliance of this bad boy.

(Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood come close but Wind-Up Bird will forever make my heart sing.)

Anonymous 10/21/13 (Mon) 03:41:52 No.403

>>382
Try "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", i read it two or three times. Such dream-based story.
I don't really like his more realistic stories. I can also reccomend to you his short stories.

Spider Jerusalem 10/21/13 (Mon) 04:34:45 No.405

>>403
This a thousand times over.

Seisatsu !h/0s4cu6Oo 11/28/13 (Thu) 06:18:51 No.426

>>403
One of my favorite anime, Haibane Renmei, was actually directly inspired by the scenery of the town in that book. When I found this out, I had already been reading After the Quake, so I went and picked up Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

I really respect a book that makes me keep grasping at different theories the whole time I'm reading it. And the surreal dreamlike imagery had me captured. It's my favorite book in recent memory.

I started 1Q84 a while back but I set it down around chapter 2 and haven't picked it up in a while. It had a crazy twist near the beginning that blew my mind, so I expect good things from it.