Once and for all

>>9934533
me on the right

>>9934577
Hi mr Murakami, I love your Norwegian Wood! I want this to be an anime

The one that is not jap john green

Haruki.
Ryu is a poor man's Chuck Palanuik

>>9934583
Stupid baka gaijin. "Anime was a mistake" as good friend of my say. Listen to Jazz instead. Hai.

>>9934637
And haruki is poor man john green

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>>9934643
I'm happy you are posting here and not on /a/, my yellow friendo.

Haruki just because he can maintain an aesthetic without being a complete edgelord. They're both middlebrow.

I'll go with Ryu.
I liked In the miso soup.
Couldn't get past the first 20 pages of hard boiled wonderland

my favourite is jackie 4chan

>>9934795
>be a respected aging actor
>still use the -chan suffix
what's wrong with him?

>>9934795
except he came from 8ch

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>>9934804
i'm talking about pic related. our new overlord. aka "hiroshima nagasaki".

>>9934807
4chan supercedes 8ch so he's 4chan now

>>9934817
I know what you are talking about, just wanted to make a small unfunny joke

probably the one I haven't read

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>>9934859
ah... ah yes

*snorts cryptically*

>>9934637
>be naturalist
Hurr durr edgelord. I guess Baudelaire and Zola are edgelords for you too, snowflake?

What do you guys think of the English translations of Murakami's books? I'm taking a class right now with the dude who's the main translator of his and I kinda wanna ask him some questions but I haven't read any Murakami besides Kafka

>>9934533

Ryu wins.

ryu being good is a worse meme than haruki being good but they're both posercore

>>9935832

Ask him how much sideways pussy he got while living in Japan.

>>9934533
Why do people talk so bad about the 1Q84 Muraki?!
WHY ANONS?

>>9935832
Wait, you fucking faggot. You're taking a translation class with fucking Jay Rubin? He's probably my favorite translator along with Rabassa; suck his dick for me.

And ask him what he thinks about Murakami as an author and a person and then make a thread about it. Or give me a throway e-mail, I dunno. Either way, you're pretty fucking lucky, anon.

>>9936035
Nah, Philip Gabriel. Sorry to get your hopes up anon

>>9934644
honestly this isn't wrong but haruki is still comfy as fuck. and let's be real, john would be too if his prose wasn't so insufferably juvenile

Who is more likely to get nobel award

>>9936546
David Bowie

>>9936295
Who knew that after genesis, Peter Gabriel would translate Japanese novels

the pleb murakami is the best murakami

>>9936295
>13 hours ago
Anyway, Philip Gabriel is still pretty fucking good. What's he like as a teacher and a person?

>>9935853
>Why do people talk so bad about the 1Q84 Muraki?!
Becuase that was the book that came out right before the cusp of his popularity, so it was heavily marketed and the bookstores had a huge section for it, so everyone saw it because the copies would take up an entire shelve, hard to miss 3 feet of alll the same book, so everyone was aware of it

Bumping the Murakami famyli

>>9934743
As someone who read it recently, you really should muster through Hard boiled wonderland. I didn't like it too at first, but I stuck with it and I'm grateful I did. The payoff for the first chapters is great once you realise what's going on.

>>9941355
But I don't want to.
I don't see any payoff unlike with other books I need to get the hang of.