This shitcan is without a doubt the biggest steaming pile I have ever had the horror of reading.
This dreadful, dreadful memoir.
Mostly because every single person in it is just awful. I have no issue separating "good character" from "good person", but there's no trace of either to be found.
>lives in Puerto Rico
>women are vapid and useless, men are hateful predators
>moves to Brooklyn
>women are vapid and useless, men are hateful predators
>gets into Harvard despite never having shown a shred of talent or ambition
there, now you don't have to read it
This piece of shit. Murakami isn't great in general, but he certainly does have some good and decent works. This however is just one, long, rambling, unjustifiable piece of shit
>>9319124
There are plenty of books I started reading, disliked, and put down, but this was forced on me in highschool many years ago, and I cannot think of a single book that would better make young men stop reading forever, and labeling it as "boring".
It pisses me off my school never had us read classics or even quality 20th Century literature because we had to make way for forced shitty diversity
This is YA tier and we read it senior year of AP Lit as if this was the greatest book about women or written by a woman
No joke, my teacher called JK Rowling a hero
I wanted to see what the meme was all about, and this was his only book they had at my library. The worst part is, I think he wrote it terribly on purpose.
>>9319328
Age of Innocence is also up there for me. I had a similar experience in high school.
>>9319321
i thought 1q84 was just a meme way of referring to orwell's book
damn
Hands down, and I loved the Secret History