what does /lit/ think?

>>9239082
I liked it

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>>9239082
His dream-pixie boi books are inferior to this, his masterpiece.

>>9239082
Not close to Murakami's best. It's his YA novel.

>>9239096
Is it better than 1q84 and colourless?
Or are you memeing somehow

>>9239082
I liked it too. I'm very removed from the main character, yet I could still get drawn in to his story. Of course it reads better in Japanese (my autistic friend was very adamant about this) but the translation was quite good.

I gifted it to a 16 year old son of a professor I was working with. Seemed like it would do him more good than Catcher in the Rye.

>>9239109
It is a stylized recording of the memories of survivors of the aum shinrikyo nerve gas attacks, and then a narrative of the cults blooming and fall.

There is a murakamiesque protagonist in the second half where clear artistic license is taken, but otherwise a really great work in the style of voices from chernobyl

>>9239125
Interesting

>>9239082
I think it's the medium ground of Murakami's works. Some, like After Dark and Sputnik Sweetheart are worse. Others, such as Colorless, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and Norwegian Wood, are better.

>>9239848
Wind-Up Bird, Hardboiled, Kafka, and After Dark are his best works.

>>9239082
This man, in my country he is nothing

More like Murhackami senpai