Comment by __alexander
14 hours ago
Murakami’s fiction novels are extremely different from “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”. If you want to try another non-fiction book of his check-out “Underground : The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche”, I loved it. If you go the fiction route “Kafka on the Shore” and “A Wild Sheep Chase” are a good starting point. Avoid some of his longer works unless you enjoy his style.
Norwegian Wood is far superior to his magical realism.
He’s a great writer of prose, but I feel it’s wasted on magical realism. He could have been one of the true greats.