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I tried hard to forget, but there remained inside me a vague knot of air. And as time went by, the knot began to take on a clear and simple form, a form that I am able to put into words, like this: Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life. It's a cliché translated into words, but at the time I felt it not as words but as that knot of air inside me. Death exists—in a paperweight, in four red and white balls on a Time works the same way.
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Norwegian Wood is Murakami's worst book tia
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Aug 18, 2014 12:35
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Every vaguely intellectual white person I know loves Murakami. What's so special about this guy again? All I know is his clever title IQ84 and apparently "Never Let Me Go" is one of those literary sci-fi tearjerkers that no one in literary circles will admit is sci-fi because it deals primarily in feelings and other exclusively "literary" concepts. I had never even heard of him until a few years ago yet apparently he's prolific enough to have earned some backlash with the publication of this latest book. I saw "Murakami" bingo on the r/books subreddit and now this. What's the deal (with airline peanuts)?
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Aug 18, 2014 12:47
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Dodgy Graphite posted:I tried hard to forget, but there remained inside me a vague knot of air. this is some poorly written poo poo, did you make it, op?
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Aug 18, 2014 12:59
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Imagine two balls and a boner on the edge of a cliff
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Pebergehund posted:Imagine two balls and a boner on the edge of a cliff Say a direct copy of the boner nearest is sent to the back of the line of balls and takes the place of the first ball. The formerly first ball becomes the second, the second becomes the third, and the boner falls off the cliff. cucking works the same way.
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Aug 18, 2014 13:02
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Randarkman posted:Say a direct copy of the boner nearest is sent to the back of the line of balls and takes the place of the first ball. The formerly first ball becomes the second, the second becomes the third, and the boner falls off the cliff. Could quite easily be a murakami sex scene
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Aug 18, 2014 13:04
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Johnnie walker dreams tm.
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Ahundredbux posted:this is some poorly written poo poo, did you make it, op? Heh, look at this scrub who doesn't "get" Murakami 
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Aug 18, 2014 13:10
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i've never even heard the name before tbh
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Aug 18, 2014 13:11
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I know somebody on Facebook who is obsessed with him. I don't get it either.
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Aug 18, 2014 13:56
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mind the walrus posted:apparently "Never Let Me Go" is one of those literary sci-fi tearjerkers that no one in literary circles will admit is sci-fi because it deals primarily in feelings and other exclusively "literary" concepts That's Ishiguro. arr rook same, lol
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Aug 18, 2014 13:58
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Imagine... a teenage boy who is lost in this world, who is surrounded by three vaguely middle aged surrogates for a missing mother figure. The teenage boy has sex with these middle aged women, while abstract things happen around him, and finds a new relationship to the world. Murakami books work the same way.
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Aug 18, 2014 14:45
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Call me when Hideo Kojima does Zybourne Gear and I'll give a poo poo about this thread.
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Aug 18, 2014 15:47
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hard boiled wonderland was dumb poo poo
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Aug 18, 2014 15:49
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mind the walrus posted:Every vaguely intellectual white person I know loves Murakami. What's so special about this guy again? How does the second sentence follow the first?
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Aug 18, 2014 16:01
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I only read the windup bird chronicles and all I remember is that he loses his cat, his wife leaves him, then he hides in a well after eating donuts. Oh yeah he also talks to a teenage girl sometimes (he is late 40s/50s)
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Aug 18, 2014 16:12
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I confused this guy with the artist who made a life sized anime statue jizzing a lasso out of his dong
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Aug 18, 2014 16:42
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or did you
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eh, the anime was better
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Action Tortoise posted:I confused this guy with the artist who made a life sized anime statue jizzing a lasso out of his dong please don't talk about my art in this thread, thanks
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Aug 18, 2014 16:54
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gee, i hope this one's narrated by a guy in his mid-thirties who's befuddled by the world around him and endlessly namedrops the tasteful titles in his record collection! and the food he makes!
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mind the walrus posted:Every vaguely intellectual white person I know loves Murakami. What's so special about this guy again? he's not american, how can you miss?
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Am I missing something? What is "Zybourne Wood"?
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Aug 18, 2014 17:06
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i knew this girl who had real pretty ears. oh well, i guess i'll be a 30 something loner who listens to jazz and drinks whisky until something weird happens
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Aug 18, 2014 17:09
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sounds like a horrible premise for a story
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gbs making yet another thread about japanese literature, sigh, can you do something unique for once like a star citizen thread.
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mind the walrus posted:Every vaguely intellectual white person I know loves Murakami. What's so special about this guy again? All I know is his clever title IQ84 and apparently "Never Let Me Go" is one of those literary sci-fi tearjerkers that no one in literary circles will admit is sci-fi because it deals primarily in feelings and other exclusively "literary" concepts. Haha it's funny because you did a racism.
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i like the fact in one of his books, it was the dirty chinese who committed war crimes on the brave noble warriors of nippon.
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Republican Vampire posted:Haha it's funny because you did a racism. I think the white thing is because his works only became available in English recently compared to when they originally came out in Japanese. Turns out different languages exist a and most people don't speak all of them. Omg racism.
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1st_Panzer_Div. posted:I think the white thing is because his works only became available in English recently compared to when they originally came out in Japanese. Turns out different languages exist a and most people don't speak all of them. Omg racism. No the racism is that he conflates Haruki Murakami with Kazuo Ishiguro because they're both Japanese. Like the implication is that only one of those wily nips has mastered the white man's alphabet, or that they all look the same, or whatever.
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I took House Of Leaves off of my bookshelf so people would stop noticing it years ago. I feel deep shame and embarrassment having spent actual money on that book and reading it.
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1st_Panzer_Div. posted:I think the white thing is because his works only became available in English recently compared to when they originally came out in Japanese. Turns out different languages exist a and most people don't speak all of them. Omg racism. His stuff has been translated into English since the 80s so there are probably people in this thread born after his stuff started getting translated!
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Tsinava posted:I took House Of Leaves off of my bookshelf so people would stop noticing it years ago. I feel deep shame and embarrassment having spent actual money on that book and reading it. I proudly display my Goosebumps collection in my living room. They make for a great conversation piece.
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Republican Vampire posted:No the racism is that he conflates Haruki Murakami with Kazuo Ishiguro because they're both Japanese. Like the implication is that only one of those wily nips has mastered the white man's alphabet, or that they all look the same, or whatever. yeah it's a dumb thing to say especially since ishiguro owns! i've only read remains of the day but it was quite good
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Tsinava posted:I took House Of Leaves off of my bookshelf so people would stop noticing it years ago. I feel deep shame and embarrassment having spent actual money on that book and reading it. having never been interested in House of Leaves, really, here I ask: what tasteful literature exists on yr shelf?
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I don't think he's particularly good and he writes a lot of creepy stuff about underage girls but on the other hand he did write this line which is pretty cool in my book.Haruki Murakami writing about a really ugly dude posted:Around the borders of the flat, lopsided area of his head clung thick, black, curly hair that had been allowed to grow too long, hanging down shaggily over the man’s ears. Ninety-eight people out of a hundred would probably be reminded by it of pubic hair. Tengo had no idea what the other two would think.
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I actually don't know anything about tasteful literature as can be assumed from my previous post where I admitted to purchasing and reading House of Leaves but if I could take a guess at some tasteful literature on my bookshelf, The Count of Monte Cristo is a pretty good book. The Shining, I guess, if you consider Stephen King tasteful. A Confederacy of Dunces is a really funny book too. My bookshelf is mostly guide/manual/videogame/scifi poo poo. Also, a Goosebumps collection is a fabulous conversation piece. I wish I still had mine but my mom burned them all because the devil.
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Tsinava posted:I actually don't know anything about tasteful literature as can be assumed from my previous post where I admitted to purchasing and reading House of Leaves but if I could take a guess at some tasteful literature on my bookshelf, The Count of Monte Cristo is a pretty good book. The Shining, I guess, if you consider Stephen King tasteful. A Confederacy of Dunces is a really funny book too. My bookshelf is mostly guide/manual/videogame/scifi poo poo. thebookbarn.txt
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Saint-X posted:thebookbarn.txt lmao you're posting in a gbs murakami thread retard. duh.
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