Am I crazy or is this fucking garbage? I've seen people hate on Murakami before here, but there were always a few posters praising him like crazy. Norwegian Wood is my only experience with him, and it's really fucking bad. Bad translation maybe?
Are any of this other works good? Some say this is his worst, and I sure hope that's true.
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It's not his best, though.
This man, in my country.
He is nothing
Maybe it's the translation, but:
The writing is bland and overwrought throughout
The characters are badly written, narrator is full of himself and anyone who identifies with him must be a cunt
Story is completely pedestrian, but also rife with unrealistic bullshit
Are his other works worth the praise he gets? This is like Kafka for braindead 15 year olds
*kafka for quirky twenty years old psudo bohemian faggots
Pseud user... easy on the projection.
>The characters are badly written, narrator is full of himself
Of course the narrator is full of himself. That's part of the point. Compare college Toru with the Toru that's sitting at the plane at the beginning of the book.
Anyway, while Norwegian Wood is not one of Murakami's best, it's still a pretty layered coming-of-age-esque book about how routinary life is.
nah he is pretty bad at least in English translations, he is le quirky Japanese writer for hipsters
maybe in Japanese he is a good writer though, I can't say
He has a point though. Murakami isn't good
The narrator is full himself, but without the effects of that being shown ala Catcher in the Rye. He's up his own ass without it having thematic significance. Just poor characterization.