― jz, Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to work for the man (chap), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 5 January 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 5 January 2006 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 5 January 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Thursday, 5 January 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
when i was a kid it used to bug me when people mocked the bands or movies i liked or whatever, now it's really only haruki murakami i'm precious about.
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link
What I really enjoyed wasn't the moments of revelation or the magic realism but the long stretches inbetween where nothing happens except eating, drinking, sleeping, listening to music, etc.. No one (who I've read) really writes that stuff as well as he does.
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm excited this thread popped up again as it inspired me to check and see his new short story collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman has finally got a release date on August 29th
― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 9 January 2006 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― youn, Monday, 9 January 2006 02:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 January 2006 02:55 (eighteen years ago) link
I love reading Dance Dance Dance after A Wild Sheep Chase because the same awful stuff keeps happening to the guy that happened in A Wild Sheep Chase, but he has a much different reaction in Dance Dance Dance. Even though for the most part it doesn't seem like it will do much good. His reaction in both books is still basically "fuck it" but he engages instead of disconnecting and the contrast is really uplifting.
Kafka on the Shore is out in paperback, by the way. If not now, soon. When I finish this vampire novel I'm going to reread it.
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 9 January 2006 08:35 (eighteen years ago) link
OTM. Some amazing writing during those stretches.
― Baaderonixx born in Xyxax (baaderonixx), Monday, 9 January 2006 08:48 (eighteen years ago) link
i thought those bits were even more tedious - they didn't actively make me cringe and throw the book across the room like some of the more, er, contrived sections, but i am not convinced that boring writing is the best way to evoke boring quotidian life. and the narrator is pretty obnoxious to be around - whiny, perpetually self-justifying, completely self-obsessed.
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link
i just finished kafka on the shore. while it was pretty enjoyable all the way through (except for THAT scene, you can probably guess which if you've read it), i couldn't help feeling like it didn't exactly...add up.
I completely agree. I finished this literally two days ago, and while I enjoyed it, I also thought there were a couple things that didn't quite add up. I think he's great though, and I would give my left arm to meet a girl like Midori from Norwegian Wood.
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
does anyone know what song's playing on his website?
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/murakami/site_flashforce.php?id=
― kamerad, Saturday, 30 August 2008 05:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.jeffersonrabb.com/
― zappi, Saturday, 30 August 2008 08:58 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks
― kamerad, Saturday, 30 August 2008 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Opening an animation studio in LA.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
different murakami
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
if only Haruki Murakami would dabble in animation!
What I Talk About When I Talk About Cartoons
― henry s, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahaha, I like my mistake! Let's fuse the two!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
you may be interested in Phil Collins' video installation at the Dallas Museum of Art. wouldn't have pegged the guy for a Smiths fan myself.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Haruki Murakami used to live in Santa Ana, CA about 15 years ago when he was a relative unknown in America.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I wish the song from Kafka on the Shore was real.
― venom boners are totally canon (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I've only read Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (read this 1st, many people have told me it's a good place to start), Hard-Boiled Wonderland... (favorite so far...love that he bought a 6 of Miller High Life for his last moment of consciousness), and Kafka on the Shore (seemed most scattershot of the 3 but also the most emotionally involved). My sister is reading Sputnik Sweetheart right now so I guess that one's next.
― venom boners are totally canon (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
No one has really noted this on this thread...scenes of violence in his books are among the most graphic and disturbing in anything I've ever read.
I met Haruki Murakami once and he was an absolute gentleman imho.
― ian, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i met him not long after and talked about hard-bop and the tampa bay devil rays. very nice guy.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link
im reading his memoir about running, i love it -- helps that im really getting into distance running at the moment
― deej, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 01:05 (fifteen years ago) link
When I read it, am I gonna want to run?
Please say no because seriously I hate running so hard.
― en i see kay, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 07:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Dude in Japan liveblogs reading new novel 1Q84http://howtojaponese.com/2009/05/29/1q84-liveblog/
viral marketing?
― The Macallan 18 Year, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
reading UNDERGROUND made me hella paranoid on the train for weeks afterward.
― ian, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link
^ Me too and I was already plenty paranoid on the train to begin with.
― Chaki Demus & Pliers (ENBB), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/haruki_murakami
― quiet and secretively we will always be together (Steve Shasta), Friday, 11 December 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Good night, Mr. Pain.
― retrovaporized nebulizer (╓abies), Friday, 11 December 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I´m still alive, i feel the wind.
― ilxor found in mail sack (5) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 December 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Some words, something, some thing.11:40 PM Aug 24th from web
Is Haruki Murakami secretly an 8th grade dork?
― big darn deal (Z S), Sunday, 13 December 2009 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Um...
secretly?
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Sunday, 13 December 2009 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
so i finally read windup bird chronicle. i dont know why i had been avoiding it--my gf read it back in high school and has been pressing me to read it for years but i resisted b/c hes been popular and i am a snob.
but.. i really dug. i didnt know it would be so romantic! or so melancholy! the segment w/ cinnamon and nutmeg was kind of irritating since i was impatient to find out what had happened to kumiko. i love that he catalogs every beer toru drinks.
― max, Saturday, 6 February 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link