I've read Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian woods, now what?

yo try hard boiled wonderland. reading it now and it goes heavy in the surrealism dept. 1Q84 is pretty decent if you really like to buried in that feeling. it is pretty repetitive and slow though, for murakami.

wind up bird if you don't care about following the plot like at all

>>9580761
Thanks, definitely going to check those out. I actually loved the emotional depth in Norwegian Wood, is there any other novel quite like it or it's just parallel worlds and/or cat chasing?

Ascend to patrician status and read Killing Commendatore like me.

>>9580803
Norskie Wood is his only completely "normal" book with no fantastical stuff at all.

I've heard that his short stories are his best.
I thoroughly enjoyed wind up bird chronicle though

>>9580761
Yeah, the repetition was what pissed me off so much about 1Q84. That novel could probably have been two hundred pages shorter and nothing would be amiss.

>>9580848
And goddamn does that suck, Murakami should get an editor to keep him in check. Norwegian Woods is just manic pixie dream girl bullshit and porn. There's really really nothing to it. Even the sex scenes, of which there are many, are poor compared to Kafka on the Shore. The ending is the absolute worst though.

>>9580848
And goddamn does that suck, Murakami should get an editor to keep him in check. Norwegian Woods is just manic pixie dream girl bullshit and porn. There's really really nothing to it. Murakami is tries to make it look like the main character is deep and complicated, but he's just an edgy flat character. Even the sex scenes, of which there are many, are poor compared to Kafka on the Shore. The ending is the absolute worst though.

murakami frustrates me, there are parts i like in all his books i have read (windup bird, hardboiled wonderland, norwegian wood) but i can't say i liked any of those books as a whole.

I adored Wind up Bird and thought Norwegian Wood was only ok.

Wind Up Bird had some of my favourite atmosphere in any book I've ever read, and there was more to the surrealism below the surface. I wrote a fucking essay on it here years ago, but I can't remember enough about the book to write it again.

That bingo should have the whiskey or whatever that appears in a lot of the books, and that one classical music piece

>>9580924
>Murakami is tries to make it look like the main character is deep and complicated

Didn't see that. He was a milquetoast everyman like all his MCs.

>>9581070
Cutty Sark?

>>9580928
i hate his protagonists, and they all act as if they were the same person

Go find after dark and read it. I liked it more than his other works.

>>9580845
Faggot

>>9580750
>no cutty sark

>>9580848
South of the Border, West of the Sun is fairly non-fantastical

>>9580928
This so much. I liked his nonfiction book "underground" about the Tokyo subway sarin gas attacks.

>>9582541
Why, anon? Just havin a bit of a laugh.