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>currently reading this
>bland 30 something MC
>estranged from wife
>functionally jobless
>sits around listening to music and cooking
>casual sex with a married woman once a week
>there's a deep hole/well he goes into
>precocious loli appears
REEEEEEEE
Memeakami has reached the point where he just comes off as a parody of himself.
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So is it basically a light novel?
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Only thing Murakami is good at is writing the same thing over and over again.
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>reading Murakami novels released after Sputnik Sweetheart
literally no point
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>>9885712
Nah, it weighs in at 1,000 or so pages Japanese text, which means whenever the English translation comes out it will probably be 1,200 and change. There's a lot of stuff about art theory and music in it. Not really light novelesque.
Of course, at the end of the day he somehow works that meme magic and makes things really absorbing. I don't hate this book I just am sorely disappointed with how derivative it is.
>>9885902
Least he did something a bit different with After Dark.
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>>9886373
All I said was at least he did something a bit different.
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I wish Japanese publishers had more hardcovers
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>>9885652
Fuck. That sucks. Wind-Up Bird is one of my all-time faves and it sucks to see Murakami essentially ripping himself off.
Fucking Jap should just exclusively write short stories from now on. He's good at that.
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>>9886409
It seems like hardcover is a standard thing for major new releases. But yeah bunkobon format is pretty ubiquitous, but that's because it's convenient for on trains I think.
The cover of Killing Commendatore is pretty shite though. The latest English covers for Murakami books are spectacularly bad now too.
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