Mentions (14)
"Like any writer he has his limitations and strange quirks. Wow, we get it, some of his sex scenes are awkward. But he's a literary giant and a very cool guy and I will not allow BPD "art hoes" to turn him into the new David Foster Wallace, red flag, bro lit author."
"I have never seen any of Miyazaki's films. I don't know why, but I have never been much interested in anime. I like to keep a sharp division between things that interest me and things that don't in order to use the limited time allotted to me in life most economically, and anime just happens to belo"
"My question, is I spent last night and this afternoon reading Murakami's Killing Commendatore and I hate a date in an hour. I'm wondering if this 'ick' for Japan extends to literature as well, or if I should not mention this book in lieu of other literature I've been interested in lately - if the to"
"I was on a date and we were talking about Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. She said she had to put down the book for the above reason. Then she went on to talk about how she didn't value most 20th century philosophers because of it."
"Like, would a book with a protagonist like that of, say, Norwegian Wood, get published today? Could a man who is quiet, intellectual, passive, unlucky in love and with a since interest in the arts be presented as a protagonist without being viewed as, I don't know, some incel apologia? You would ass"
"L-R Yukio Mishima, Tennessee Williams, Patricia Highsmith, Françoise Sagan, Charles Bukowski, Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Edward Gorey, Doris Lessing, Williams.S.Burroughs, Ernest Hemingway, Haruki Murakami"
"I think hes my favorite contemporary author. also a big murakami fan."
"Murakami used to be one of my favorite authors, but I've slowly come to realize that most of his stories have the same formula, which makes them much harder to get through/enjoy. Something something average fifteen-forty year old male something something woman with shapely breasts."
"The first one was by Holleubeqk? Some sad retxrd meandering, drinking, and unprompted & unconvincingly bringing up getting pussy. I got about 20 pages in before I realized I had been play. This is just French Stav! Just a CT bit even down to the antizions and baby jurl Muslim gang. A few times I've "
"Just finished after dark, the 4th novel I read from him and everything he writes seems to centre around a woman with secrets who vanished, cats, someone getting beat to death and subtle surrealism. Yet I still find his books very addictive"
"I spent last night and this afternoon reading Murakami's Killing Commendatore and I hate a date in an hour."
"I think hes my favorite contemporary author. also a big murakami fan."
"Next one I tried was by Murokama? It was the same exact scenario except now he was chinese!"
"I'm reading *The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle*, and it's like yeah… this guy is Japanese"