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12203033 No.12203033 [Reply] [Original]

>dude like I met this women several years older than me at some bar in tokyo and there was a jazz band playing but I got this overwhelming sense of ennui and then we went back to her place and she had a cat and we listened to jazz records then had the most incredible sex because of some odd technique she used and then I had an outer body experience as I slept

LITERALLY every book

Fucking hack

>> No.12203050

>>12203033
nigga

1) you read them
2) ur a wagie

>> No.12203054

more like my diary desu

>> No.12203058

>>12203054
I wish

>> No.12203081

>>12203058
clean your room

>> No.12203105

Hello, anon. Forgive my English. Jay Rubin usually translates me. So I may sound a bit different. Maybe it's like two pictures of the same sea taken on two different occasions, and with different cameras. But make no mistake, it is the international phenomenon, I, Haruki Murakami who types these words.

You have correctly pointed out some of the themes I find myself returning to in my work. I should say that, at least. It is true, and I do not mean to. It emerges. All roads lead to Rome, as they say, and so a writer finds all books lead back to himself, emerging.

Anon, I've lived with myself much longer than you have, and more consistently. I'm nobody special. I know this at least as much as anyone. I'm eating spaghetti right now, and I've had this meal many times. I'm planning on killing myself.

Cheers from Japan.

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12203129

*buys newspapers*

>> No.12203298

>>12203033
i got 1Q1984 for my birthday and had to stop reading 1/4 of the way through because it was so soulless and shitty

I got the impression that it was algorithmically generated, that some kind of computer wrote it, and I'm pretty sure this wasn't just an artefact of the translation.
It's the way the elements are presented, it's so cold and cliche, surely a reflection of their conception.

But yeah, all these boomer retard artists who got their first taste of "sophistication" while doing artificial psychedelic drugs....they get fixated on the most meaningless superficial things because their reward system is hacked by the drug.

Worthless casualties fit only for incineration.

>> No.12203360

*washes car*

>> No.12204534

>>12203033
he sucks, tis true

>> No.12204586

>>12203298
i bet you unironically love dfw, faggot

>> No.12204594

>>12203298
IQ 1984? Is that when you become a tankie? Or it's what the Rothschilds have?

>> No.12204602

>>12203105
Ganbatte Murakami-san!
Top lel tier post

>> No.12204634

i've already read like 5 of his books, couldn't you guys tell me sooner?

what japanese author i should read instead?

>> No.12204652

>>12203033
this doesn't happen to you on the weekends?
but yea for sure, kafka on the shore is his only good book
and i read way too many of them lmao

>> No.12204661

>>12203033
Fuckin' After Dark in a nutshell, man. However, as easy as it is to encapsulate his writing, you're missing the mood that he puts into it.

>> No.12204670

>>12204634
Osamu Dazai

>> No.12204776

>>12204586
I got Infinite Jest for Christmas one year and couldn't finish the second chapter.

It was so clearly mentally ill.
"ironic" self gratification for submission to an alien machine.

>> No.12205092

>>12204776
just curious, what do you like?

>> No.12205095

>>12203033
God he sucks so fucking bad

>> No.12205102

>>12204634
None, gooks have no souls and their brains don't work properly. Read a book written by a real person (i.e. a European or European-American MAN) instead.

>> No.12205173

>>12205102
spoken like a true mongrel cuck

>> No.12205204
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12205204

>tfw you will never pick up older japanese women in jazz bars

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>>12203298
People like you make me sick. I'd lose my soul just to take people like you to hell and back over the insults you insistently give. God damn you fucking ignorant pieces of shit, so ignorant even not to care about all the time and energy sacrificed by craftsmen and labours and financiers and so on, time and energy sacrificed for a product, a product from a sacred linage going back in all our history to the 1460's when our rules brought the idea of printing press and science to the west. You should respect us by finishing the book.

>> No.12205305

>>12205204
>
I thought it was funny.

>> No.12206116

>>12204634
Same tbqh, took me 7 books before I came to the conclusion that he is indeed a fucking hack

>> No.12207234
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12207234

ITT pseuds shit on pseud-tier literature so that anonymous strangers won't think they are pseuds

I finished Wind-Up Bird last night and fucking loved every page of it, and so did you.

>> No.12207292

I really liked Kafka on the Shore and I want to read another of his books. What should I read?

>> No.12207301

>>12203033
>outer body experience
These are really a diamond dozen in his books

>> No.12207497

>>12203105
Gook

>> No.12207505

>>12203033
I read all of his books so I can self insert as the MC and feel less lonely and horny for a few hours out of the day.

>> No.12207626

>>12207292
norwegian wood, a wild sheep chase, and south of the border, west of the sun are the only ones worth reading

>> No.12207648

>>12204634
Soseki or Tanizaki.
Anybody born from Taisho onwards is guaranteed to be trash.

>> No.12207661

>>12207301
>diamond dozen
i think you mean
>dime a dozen

>> No.12207692

>>12207661

if he meant that he would have said that, you moranic pre-madonna

>> No.12207717

>>12207661
For all intensive purposes, what he said reflects the doggy dog nature of our modern world

>> No.12207822

>>12203033
What about his book about running?

>> No.12207834

>>12203033
sounds comfy how do i get this to happen to me IRL

>> No.12208993

>>12205092
I like you, anon.

>> No.12209084

>>12203033
I hate his books but I can't stop reading them.

>> No.12209118

>>12207234
The World War 2 flashbacks in Wind-Up are the best pieces of writing Murakami's ever going to produce, but the rest of it suffers from the usual issue of being good if it's one of the first of his books you read. It's not that his schtick is bad, it's just that he reuses themes so often they lose their impact and damage the mood he's trying to create.

I recently read The Elephant Vanishes (which contains some of Murakami's best stories), and it's uncanny reading the opening of Wind-Up again (granted, at the time it was just one of the weakest stories in the book). It's the same themes he hits in half his work, and it's just brain-numbing to see them stacked up the same way they always are in everything he writes.

I can't help liking him, as he captures the mood he sets out to capture very well (for my money South of the Border does the best job capturing that immature wanderlust that I think most people nowadays feel better than any other book) but of all the writers I've come across so far, hes the one who has the biggest issue with wearing out ideas.

>> No.12209130

>>12209084
This is the most accurate statement. I'm in the same boat. I like reading his stuff so far, but by the time the book is over I'm fucking pissed. Murakami is the king of failed promises.

>> No.12209208

>>12207234
Wind up bird is amazing feel no shame anon

>> No.12209225

G O
B A C K
T O
R E D D I T

>> No.12209331

>>12207834
go to the hotel bars in cities frequented by Japanese tourists, there will be lonely older women there