Reading this and it literally sounds and feels as if it were

No. Wind up bird chronicle is passable and that's about it

>>7578204
Only After Dark.

>>7578213
He's an idiot.

>>7578204

No. And neither has any other Japanese writer.

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Sheep and DDD are p good desu

>>7578220
>implying Murakami isn't a white guy in a jap body

Pleb

iq84 is a very fun read

>>7578204
Dance Dance Dance, A Wild Sheep Chase, Wind Up Bird Chronicle, arguably Kafka on the Shore re all very good.
Ignore the rest.

>>7578204
>Murakami like totally sucks XD Guys, d-do I fit in yet?

I hated Kafka on the Shore, but I want to give him another shot. I've heard that The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is good.

oh yeah that's his worst

>>7578530
go back to reddit

>>7578204
Murakami is YA for the most part, good YA
but still YA

in the sane way JD Salinger, The Hobbit, animal farm,

good light easy going reading,


if you go it him in the mood for deep and meaningful works you will hate it,

Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is his secret masterpiece, but it's not hip enough or something.

His short stories are much better than his novels.

>>7578204
not literature

>>7579186
this desu

>>7579135
My favourite book is A wild sheep chase but I actually think that hard boiled wonderland it's the best book written by the jap

Magical realism and science fiction needs to be combined more often

I enjoyed Norwegion Wood a lot.