Can someone tell me why people here hate murakami? Pic related

I dunno, maybe because people here like reading literature

>>9851674

>Do you guys hate it just because normies use his work to look intellectual?

Do they? Not disputing it. Just wondering.

>>9851674
I didn't find it unenjoyable, but it was too long for what it was desu. I failed to really see any merit in it other than being entertaining and learning a little about Nomonhan and so on.
Still, I would recommend Murakami to a lot of people.

>>9851750
Yep. Every once in a while there'll be someone from my social feed posting a picture of the book opened with their relaxing feet in the background. Basically the literary equivalent of instagram breakfast photos

>>9851764

I never get the vibe they're trying to be intellectual. But, yeah. If I see anybody post books on Instagram it's either a Murakami book or Rupi Kaur.

>>9851674
I think I've read everything he's published in English. Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Hard-Boiled Wonderland are probably his two best; his other earlier fiction is generally OK but not great. Murakami's problem is that his writing hasn't progressed in the last 20+ years; all his books since then have essentially been the same thing, over and over -- same plot, characters, etc. His latest (Tsukuru Tazaki) is decidedly odd, and I don't mean that in a good way. A lot of people think he'll get a Nobel Prize; if he does, it'll be a shame (although of course this isn't as prestigious as it once was).

>>9851674
Murakami is an author that I wished I liked; his prose and ideas are sometimes pretty good but most of the times they are really mediocre.Then again I only read Kafka on the shore,so maybe his other works are better dunno.

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Murakami is comfy.

He's popular and women have been known to enjoy him.

Do people hate him on here? I think everyone basically agrees that Wind up bird and hard boiled wonderland, and his early short stories are pretty good. He's just not God sent.

>>9853319
>Murakami is an author that I wished I liked
This. I keep getting fooled by his cult status and cover art. I've read Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Hardboiled Wonderland, and part of Norwegian Wood. They all have their moments but on the whole they just feel like absurdist young adult novels.

>>9851674
i've read 4 books by him, and the only one i liked was nowergian wood, the rest felt "more of the same", its like murakami can't write more than 3 different characters

the story about the soldiers being skinned alive in mongolia was top litkino

>>9853404
>He's popular

This is due to the weeb factor, plus there's not much other contemporary Japanese fiction available in English.

>>9854035
>murakami can't write more than 3 different characters

I'd say more like 2 characters, LOL. Plus his books really suffer from bloat. 1Q84 was about 400 pages longer than it needed to be.