― 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
I'd take a bullet for that book.
― Möbius dick (╓abies), Saturday, 6 February 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
he really gets the heart of a certain kind of relationship, doesnt he? scary how much i was able to identify w/ toru.
― max, Saturday, 6 February 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
love WBC. I'm quite wary of magic realist stuff but that book feels very true to its own logic and closer in spirit to Breton than Marquez. Romantic big and small r is spot on.
― Oi'll show you da loife of da moind (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 February 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Man, Murakami's work is one of those things I want to talk about a lot, but I love it so unequivocally, I can't think of much to say other than "Oh my god yes it's fucking awesome"
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Saturday, 6 February 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
ha yeah i feel that way about most of the things I love - like I'm not gonna debate anybody about it.
― Oi'll show you da loife of da moind (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 February 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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
friends love him and have read everything but i resist because they sound like some culty motherfuckers when they talk about him. v similar to reaction of somebody in the movie poll thread (to Pixar movies, i think)
― men lie, women lie, hips don't (zvookster), Saturday, 6 February 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
must try to find hatchet job on him which a fan told me was hilarious no matter how unfair
― men lie, women lie, hips don't (zvookster), Saturday, 6 February 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I met this guy once. Very polite.
― Joint Custody (ian), Saturday, 6 February 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
― Oi'll show you da loife of da moind (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 February 2010 20:02 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
Should be a thread? Is a thread?
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 6 February 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I've found reading his books has been really helpful during difficult emotional stages of my life. His delicate narrative structure and gentle, relaxed writing style seem to help me calm down and organise my thoughts.― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:26 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark
― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:26 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark
There might be something to this. I always feel there's criticism to be made for somewhat dry prose but I can never completely bring myself to fault him for it. Maybe "dry" is the wrong word. Maybe it's just thoughtful, and untangled? And if I think it's so dry, why do I plow through his books in just a few days? I can never unpack it all, I just love it.
― Möbius dick (╓abies), Saturday, 6 February 2010 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Just picked up the "running" book. Looking forward to it.
― "I get through more mojitos.." (bear, bear, bear), Saturday, 6 February 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
so i have a colleague i need to buy a present for. hes into "fantasy" books and once told me he was a big fan of murakami and lent me 'hard-boiled wonderland'. can anyone recommend another author a murakami fan might enjoy?
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Friday, 25 June 2010 09:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Have any runners read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running? I want to give this as a present for a colleague.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 25 June 2010 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link
tpp, philip k. dick - ubik would be nice.
xyzzzz, I've read that but I'm not a runner. can't really remember what he says in it - just remember that it was a pleasant, quick read.
― crüt it out (dyao), Friday, 25 June 2010 09:40 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks dyao this sounds spot on!
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Friday, 25 June 2010 09:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks, dyao, my colleague is a runner and I was just wondering whether its way too obvious, but I guess if it reads well..
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 25 June 2010 10:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Have any runners read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running?
Yeah, I have. If your colleague is a runner, just get it for them. Runners love to read anything about running, and it's good anyway.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 25 June 2010 10:14 (fourteen years ago) link
just finished kafka on the shore a few days ago (right after reading kafka's 'metamorphosis'). it was a pretty good read, but after reading windup bird chronicles (the only two i've read), it just didn't hold up. i definitely feel that murakami is trying to reference kafka in his writings. people running around doing weird things, not knowing exactly why they're doing them.
someone compared Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco to murakami. i'm gonna check it out. also interested in filipino history/culturehttp://www.amazon.com/Ilustrado-Novel-Miguel-Syjuco/dp/0374174784
― jaxon, Sunday, 27 June 2010 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Also might suggest a novel by Karen Yamashita called Through the Arc of the Rainforest. There's a similarity in the way that fantastic events are narrated very calmly. Looking it up on Wikipedia will make it sound stupid, though.
― "the English sweat" (a new disease) (clotpoll), Sunday, 27 June 2010 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
the way that fantastic events are narrated very calmly
was just talking to a friend about kobo abe and this very tactic. it is a good thing to do, imo.
― tru oyster kvlt (arby's), Sunday, 27 June 2010 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Have any runners read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running?yeah, toward the end it just sounds like he's making shit upso i have a colleague i need to buy a present for. hes into "fantasy" books and once told me he was a big fan of murakami and lent me 'hard-boiled wonderland'. can anyone recommend another author a murakami fan might enjoy?felix gilman - thundererkj bishop - the etched city
― kamerad, Sunday, 27 June 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, as I said yesterday in the running thread I would only recommend WITAWITAR to someone who's both a runner and a Murakami fan - it's not exceptional as a running book or a Murakami book, but it's kind of unique in its literary running niche, and it's a pleasant read.
― seandalai, Sunday, 27 June 2010 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link