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1. You drink your coffee black.

2. You have a deep and abiding love for old jazz records.

3. You find it easy to have emotionless sex with strangers. If you were to describe the sex to a friend you would use the most abstract language possible, but you never do because you have no friends.

4. You worship the 1960s and the simple comforts in life: black coffee, old jazz records, emotionless afternoon sex. If, however, you are actually living in the 1960s, you mostly just keep to yourself.

>> No.6109841

You just described me OP. I guess I'll have to check out Murakami.

>> No.6109861

>Destroying the flavor of the coffee with creamer/sugar

What kind of old lady does this?

>> No.6109864

>>6109750
>You find it easy to have emotionless sex with strangers
Wrong. I've been seeing the same few hookes for a for months..

>> No.6109867

>>6109750
That's a nice ear

>> No.6109914

>>6109861
>he implies almond milk-caramel frothy chai latte moccacinos are not the superior form of coffee

>> No.6109937

An elephant mysteriously vanishes. A giant frog is waiting in your apartment. Your cat mysteriously vanishes. Two moons hang in the sky. Your wife mysteriously vanishes. A strange man comes to you and asks you to find a sheep, or a woman calls and asks for ten minutes of your time.

>> No.6109956

>>6109750

I only apply to the love of cooking, jazz records and black coffee, though that's partly due to Twin Peak's fault rather than Murakami's novels.

>> No.6109978

Every Murakami protagonist feels like Murakami.

>> No.6109985

>>6109750
forgot to add that you also like whiskey and italian food and cigarettes

often found cooking pasta listening to classical music waiting for a phone call

>> No.6109989

do people here prefer RYU M.

>> No.6110023

>>6109989
no, he's just a japanese bret easton ellis

>> No.6110028

>>6109985
Shit, I forgot the pasta, didn't I? The pasta is the most important thing.

>> No.6110030

I like to drink coffee, eat italian food and listen to jazz. I like cats too. I'm also incredibly lonely, which makes me a Murakami protagonist right up to the point where someone has sex with them.

>> No.6110033

>>6109750
>>6109989

Only modern Japanese writers that matter are Nishio Ishin, Shuumon Yuu, Narahara Ittetsu and Sca-Ji.

>> No.6110042
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6110042

is murakami the cowboy bebop of /lit/ ?

>> No.6110060

>>6110042
I wouldn't know, I've never seen a picture of Haruki Murakami at his computer.

>> No.6110064

>>6110060

kek

>> No.6110112

>>6110033
The Monogatari series is the greatest work of existential literary fiction since Camus' La Chute

>> No.6110138

>>6109985
>cigarettes
what about a pipe?

>> No.6110559

>>6109750
Never read Murakami but that sounds insufferable

>> No.6110578

>>6109861
>drinking coffee that actually has flavor

what kind of fairy are you?

>> No.6110603

>>6110112
Now we only need to wait few decades for academia to start appreciating it.

>> No.6110640

>>6110559
It's skewed description. Most of Murakami's protagonists don't like emotionless sex, the sex they have just happens to be emotionless. They have an affinity for Jazz music, but not an obsessive love over it. They like their coffee black not out of elitism bust just out of its simplicity and effortlessness. And they most certainly don't 'worship' the 1960s, but are really just vague sentimentalists lost in the trials of modern living.
They're mostly just slightly impartial, moderate thinking wanderers trapped in semifantastical and somewhat kafkaesque (but like actually) problems. They're very normal, rational people overall.

I def rec Windup Bird Chronicle, it's very mesmerizing and meditative (even when it's horrifying)

>> No.6110648

>>6110640
>somewhat kafkaesque (but like actually) problems

You're an idiot. Read more. Preferably something other than Murakami.

>> No.6110665

>>6110648
kafka is the most common critical comparison to murakami by and large, get over yourself

>> No.6110754

>>6110640
Is Kafka on the shore good?
My sister bought it and i was wondering whether to read it or not. Do i need to read anything essential beforehan to understand it?

>> No.6110935

>>6109750
>easy sex
>no friends

I'm not sure how this works unless it involves whores and money.

>> No.6110974

>>6110754
>Do i need to read anything essential beforehan to understand it?
no

>> No.6111216

>>6110935
I can tell you it's got more to do with blind luck, proximity to happyy hour, and lurking in the right dives.

>> No.6111253

>>6110578
>drinking shit coffee

>> No.6111301

"I'm into musicians such as Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis,... the list goes on" - Haruhi Murakami


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHVarQbNAwU

>> No.6112408

>>6110640
Kafka on the Shore is superior

>> No.6113582

>>6109750
>When I do, yes. French pressed, too. Tastes nicer.
>I do like a touch of Reindhart when writing papers

The last two don't apply to me. Sex is very emotional for me, I often feel disgusting afterwards and sometimes cry. If I were to describe it to a friend, I'd describe the feelings without using positive or negative language. While I think that the sixties were an interesting time, they're not really for me.

>> No.6113663

>>6109750
i drink tea because i am not a pleb.
i dont list to jazz because i am not a prentious faggot.
i am a virgin.


Checkmate, OP.

>> No.6113707

>>6109750
In that case the most /lit/ character is Philip Marlowe. Guy even has a /lit/ name and fucks a book slut

>> No.6113712
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>>6113707
>protagonist is a writer

>> No.6113718

>>6113582
>Sex is very emotional for me, I often feel disgusting afterwards and sometimes cry.
can you expand on this? i've never understood what people mean when they say they "cry" after sex. I've never felt that before and dont know why anyone would. i feel like you must be having really really bad sex if you are compelled to cry afterwards. are you male or female?

>> No.6113743

>>6113718
Sex is an overwhelming physical and emotional experience. A common way people deal with being overwhelmed is through tears.

For me in particular, though, I cry after sex if the other person showed no signs of enjoyment because it makes me feel uncomfortably like a rapist, it makes me feel like I'm not good at sex , and therefore both a shit and a failure.

And once or twice, I've cried after absolutely phenomenal sex because of aformentioned overwhelmedness.

>> No.6114669

>>6110578
>Drinking coffee
>Not eating the grounds with a spoon

What kind of fairy are you?

>> No.6115035
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>>6113743
>I cry after sex

>> No.6115672

>>6109750
That's my life. Except sex. I don't have any.

>> No.6115722

>>6114669
>eating
>not snorting fine ground coffee off a cutting board in a room full of burning incense while readings of Boccaccio play at half-speed

It's like you want to be a commoner

>> No.6115757

>>6109914
back to Starbucks for you, you corporate faggot

>> No.6116494

>>6111301
Story: My buddy works at a jazz club in NYC that Murakami always hits up when he's in the U.S. I gave my him my copy of Kafka for Haruki to sign when he showed up (his agent called to reserve a table like 3 months ahead). Through some goofy language barrier related misunderstanding, Haruki makes it out to my buddy instead of me, so I let him just keep the book since he starts reading Murakami himself shortly after. End story.

>> No.6116566

>>6109937
>or a woman calls and asks for ten minutes of your time.
actual murakami reader detected

>> No.6116579

>>6110935
>penpals
>coworkers
>women in bars
>having a wife
>other random means

>> No.6116580

>>6109750
yes except for 3 cause i cant get laid to save my life. working on that, though

>> No.6116595

>>6109867
4u

>> No.6116927

>>6114669
>not smoking coffee grounds to take the edge off while in prison
Things I have actually done.

>> No.6117935

>>6116494
wait i live in Nyc what club?

>> No.6117952

>>6110603
if only

monkey a best

>> No.6118030

>>6110033
>>6110112
>>6110603
>>6117952

>nisio isin
>great writer

bah. I read kizu (translated) because
>waiting for shaft
and it was mediocre. the screen adaption outshines the source material by a significant margin. primarily for its exploitation of character lens to lend meaning to the surrealism

>> No.6118042

wind up bird chronicle and kafka on the shore were good. the rest is a lot of the same, but not as well executed

>> No.6118044

While very high on mescaline I actually stared at that specific image of mio smoking for 2 straight hours. There is something magical about that image. It's the juxtaposition of the absurd anime-blue-hair-ity and the grey, the lighting, the cig, the facial expression. God's broken paradise

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>>6109750
>There are people in this world that put milk in their coffee

>> No.6118470

>>6110754
The ending is absolute shit. Half of the characters are absolute shit.

That being said, there's a lot of interesting characters and subjects. Just don't expect to be blown away. It's really inconsistent and will probably just leave you pleased, but annoyed.

>> No.6118474

>>6118044
jessus you're a faggot

i took mescaline and watched the shining, don't do that, but shit that movie is fukkin weird on mescaline

>> No.6118486

>Take psychedelics stare at screens
Bunch of faggots, all of you

>> No.6118510

Started listening to "NW" yesterday. 1:38 mins in. Really like it, feels like a better version of "Perks of being a wallflower". Where do I go next?

>> No.6118528

You are a DFW protagonist.

1. You got to a therapist(1)/group therapy

2. You are depressed(2)

3. You are David Foster Wallace

(1) It is DFW's therapist
(2) It's the same kind of depression DFW had

>> No.6118852

>>6112408
superior to what?

>> No.6119005

>>6118528
Okay, now I want to play dwarf fortress

>> No.6119074

I prefer his short stories, honestly. Read 'Another Way to Die'?

Also, spaghetti. He seems to really like spaghetti.

>> No.6119892

>>6119005
Dwarf Fortress Wallace's Infinite Socks: wherein Urist Axebread Wallace, after spending however many years in dwarven daycare, goes on a tantrum spiral because he decided to pick up a pair of xllama wool socksx in the middle of a battle. There are many engravings.