I'll get it this year, you just watch...
The Nobel Prize
Andrew Reed
Jordan Collins
Heh, nothing personnel, (Kenosha) kid.
Angel Ramirez
what are his essentials?
Josiah Baker
Kafka on the Shore
Norwegian Wood
Wind-Up Bird Chronicles (I disagree)
A Wild Sheep Chase
1Q84 (many here would disagree)
In that order.
Luke Lopez
I wonder what Asians did to upset every single prize awarding organization.
Jayden Bennett
My money is on Morrissey this year. Already a Penguin Classic.
Jayden Nguyen
Hai. Thanks.
Josiah Brown
Morrissey deserves it far more than Bob Dylan to be honest.
Leo James
>1Q84
One of the few books (well, three) that I've read by Murakami.
I dont know how I feel about the fact that they make no fucking sense. He recognised this himself and said that it's on purpose..
Easton Clark
>He recognised this himself and said that it's on purpose..
Do you have source on that? Because I think not only everything makes sense in his books, but many things can also be interpented in lots of ways, only because his style is that magical and vague.
David Baker
>Being this wrong
... how?
Grayson Robinson
>everything makes sense in his books
I dont know about that.
In the colorless one everything is supposed to make sense? In 1q84, where the end is abrupt and doesnt clarify anything?
take a look at this for example:
theguardian.com
what he calls 'misteries' means: I dont give a fuck about making sense.
I also read somewhere that his books are 'dreams' and that they dont need to have a meaning, they just are what they are. And in that link you can just look at his answers, its right there: misteries.
Of course
>things can also be interpented in lots of ways
,because the writer didnt give them a meaning!
we could be talking about life instead of Murakami: it doesn't make sense, I will give it a meaning myself..
Ryan Morris
Does one need to read the rest of the rat trilogy in order to read sheep chase?
Christian Carter
joseph mcelroy deserves it
Xavier Price
Knausgaard will get it.
Ending, finally, irony. Once and for all
Henry Wood
If a Norwegian is going to get it, it will probably be Jon Fosse or Kjell Askildsen. Knausgård is too young, too popular and not PC enough. And he also said he'd an hero if he got it.
Austin Flores
No just stick to A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance. Personally I find Dance Dance Dance to be on par with the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
Logan Reyes
>And he also said he'd an hero if he got it.
Maybe the Nobel committee will do it for the lulz.
Ayden Davis
I want it to be Ayn Rand for obvious reasons.
Double digits confirm.
Brody Garcia
Gotta be alive to win the Nobel.
Caleb Lewis
Reminder
Alexander Phillips
Jesus christ tao lin got old quick
I guess that's what a life of cigarettes and memes and tranny fucking will do to you
Asher James
it doesn't even matter who wins at this point
Anthony Flores
>Netherlands
Really?
Blake Williams
David Watson
...
Aaron Thompson
How many dutch writers can you name without google?
Easton Peterson
None, sadly. But I'n not uber/lit/ician.
Elijah Flores
Wrong wrong wrong. Murakami can write two books, those two books are Hard Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World and Norwegian Wood. Literally every other book he writes is a combination of these two. If you want to see the critical combination read either Kaftka on the Shore (better choice) or Wind-up Bird Chronicle (but like it's just my opinion). The only other book of his that doesn't fall on this spectrum is A Wild Sheep Chase, which I'd recommend on it's hilarity though it's definitely clear the same writer wrote Norwegian Wood.
Jack Wood
1Q84 is fucking shit.
Christopher Sullivan
A lot, but I'm Dutch, so that doesn't count
Anthony Young
if I hated Hard Boiled Wonderland will I hate everything on the spectrum? seriously it was fucking awful.
Caleb Baker
I wouldn't put it past them to give out a charity/affirmative action award seeing how everything is right now.