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Comment by __alexander

11 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.