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unrelated but has anyone tried to read any orhan pamuk? dude really wants to gently caress his mum lmao
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I read his most recent, A Strangeness in My Mind and also read The Museum of Innocence. Strangeness is a long book and gets tedious at times. It covers a lot of the modern history of Istanbul told through the eyes of a moderate street seller of a mildly fermented drink. It tends to be a little dry but you can get a pretty good understanding of Turkish life. Pamuk is detail-oriented. I liked the Museum of Innocence and if you ever get to Istanbul it is worth a visit to the museum he created based on the story from the book. It is a drawn out love story told over many decades of Istanbul's golden period of the 50's-60's. The main character is so obsessive about the woman he loves, he collects objects so he can connect with her on some emotional level. That is the amazing part of the museum which recreates this fictional collection of objects including an entire wall filled with cigarette butts a woman smoked over time. I actually saw Pamuk on a speaking tour here in the states a few year's back. He is an amazing storyteller.
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Tolkien minority posted:i actually really enjoyed kafka on the shore. ive been trying to read hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world for months now and jeeze that book aint exactly riveting HBW is his best Book. Thicc bitches ftw
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discount cathouse posted:HBW is his best Book. Thicc bitches ftw
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every few years i get a notion to read a book where a mysterious girl disasppears mysteriosly so obviously ive read most of murakamis books by now and my verdict is kafka on the shore is a cool book to read as a teen. back then i was like whoa this is p. deep but in retrospective its just good at conveying a weird mood all his other books are ripoffs kafka on the shore except for the running book and hatdboiled wonderland which felt like young adult fiction with a tinge of weirdness. like lol a hidden lab behind an underground waterfall come on
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Aix posted:like lol a hidden lab behind an underground waterfall come on whoa that's like in earthbound also murakami and itoi (earthbound guy) did a book together whoaaaaaaaaaa
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Jan 12, 2017 18:39
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Murakami books are basically the anime of literature.
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Jan 12, 2017 19:03
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I have read IQ84, halfway. and wind up bird chronicle. I'm actually hoping to pick up one of his books. I like him for his odd details.
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Jan 12, 2017 20:27
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I've never read hikikomori katamari or kirk vonnegout
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Commie NedFlanders posted:I've never read hikikomori katamari or kirk vonnegout
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Tolkien minority posted:i actually really enjoyed kafka on the shore. ive been trying to read hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world for months now and jeeze that book aint exactly riveting Hard boiled seems to be my favourite of his books. I understand its not for everyone, but I love it.
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I like that the japanese have this weird relation to him where they hate him for not being a "proper" japanese author, but they love him because he is famous abroad, but they hate him for being famous abroad while not being a "proper" japanese author. If you slightly like murakami you should read Akutagawa ryūnosuke, who got super depressed and wrote really harrowing stuff before dying. Murakami is like a much more pretentious version of him, who is not weird enough to kill himself. Basically he ended up living with the kind of hallucinations Murakami writes about, so it's much more hosed up when he wrote about them.
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I'm the one doofus whose first Murakami was 1Q84 that tome of a book. Really liked it thou
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luv 2 date boys posted:I enjoyed what I read by him. Sorry, op. Nice stealth brag about reading trendy literature.
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Jan 12, 2017 21:25
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every time i see this thread i think for a second it says "hotline miami sucks; isn't real literature"
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garfield hentai posted:every time i see this thread i think for a second it says "hotline miami sucks; isn't real literature" Turn off your computer.
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Jan 12, 2017 23:58
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im on my phone nice try idiot
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In college I had to read A Wild Sheep Chase and I enjoyed it. I just never got around to reading more of his work. Like any smart and/or sane person, my To Read list is in the hundreds. Goons can crack jokes, but 10 years ago Murakami was far and away the most recommended author on these forums. Probably because of his name.
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ProperCoochie posted:
Goon taste is and has always been terrible.
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ProperCoochie posted:In college I had to read A Wild Sheep Chase and I enjoyed it. I just never got around to reading more of his work. Like any smart and/or sane person, my To Read list is in the hundreds. Who is everyone recommending now that isn't heavily genre-based?
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Jan 13, 2017 03:22
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Norwegian Wood, more like Norwegian Won't. Just kinda plodded along.
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Jan 13, 2017 03:46
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I only read real poo poo like Nancy Friday books.
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Jan 13, 2017 04:44
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I read Kafka on the Shore when I was a teenager and I liked it OK. What I didn't like was the fact that it was recommended and gifted to me by my mom
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married but discreet posted:Goon taste is and has always been terrible. My preference for a well defined turd has been cultivated through the ages
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Jan 13, 2017 05:57
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I tried reading IQ84 but as much as I was enjoying the story I found the language incredibly plain and  . Then I read that it was a rushed translation job that didn't do him justice which turned me off from continuing. Now I see somebody in this thread has mentioned that Japanese translations in general are thorny.WHAT DO
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married but discreet posted:Goon taste is and has always been terrible. Goons are many people, from many different classes, creeds, and ways of life, and they should all be killed
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Sheep-Goats posted:They don't let women publish books in Japan. they do but only anime or furry porn
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Whatev posted:I read Kafka on the Shore when I was a teenager and I liked it OK. What I didn't like was the fact that it was recommended and gifted to me by my mom Go for it man.
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This is the one author I will fight to the death to defend. Kumite!
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I had to read wild sheep chase didnt like it. Also that OP is really lazy, its like on sentence.
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Criminal Minded posted:I tried reading IQ84 but as much as I was enjoying the story I found the language incredibly plain and Give it another shot. I personally enjoyed 1Q84 but YMMV
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Knight posted:Don't get me wrong, Murakami is one of my favorite authors and HBW is still one of my favorite books. I would still recommend him, just not 1Q84 as a starter. Neal Stephenson was, but he poo poo the bed hard after Anathem, imho. I'm not sure who is currently most recommended. There's lots of posts about legitimate genius Cormac McCarthy and often following those posts are "O BOY goons love their goony authors!" posts which is just perplexing. Another thing about goon book recommendations from ten years ago: you couldn't go five posts in a book thread without a House of Leaves recommendation. And of course we have our own meme that's like "it's not quite what you're asking, but have you read and if not I recommend the series A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin." (I'm surprised there's no SAclopedia entry about that--unless I just can't find it.) There was also a handful of people always recommending Ayn Rand. Catch-22 was another popular recommendation. I remember all this because it was 13-14 years ago that I got seriously into books, and I had few bookish friends, so I spent time on the forums writing down frequently recommended works and authors.
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The Murakami books I've read are 2 for 2 on underage girls wanting to bang (and once actually magic-banging) bookish, introverted Japanese men. This tells me everything I need to know about Murakami and his popularity.
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Haruki Muracummies
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Haruki Murakami doesn't seem that goony. When I imagine goon literature I think of Chuck Palahniuk or something with Drizzt on the cover.
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Extra Large Marge posted:Haruki Murakami doesn't seem that goony. When I imagine goon literature I think of Chuck Palahniuk or something with Drizzt on the cover. Tyler Do'Urden
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smug n stuff posted:Many people on Reddit enjoy Murakami, that's proof enough for me that he's poo poo Many people on Reddit also enjoy breathing, so you should probably stop doing that
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