Author Topic: Any Fans Of Haruki Murakami here? (Read 4490 times)

Wildalaska · « **on:** October 12, 2008, 01:06:27 PM »

Just curious who else reads him?

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Silver Bullet · « **Reply #1 on:** October 12, 2008, 01:19:54 PM »

Sorry, I haven't heard of him. I looked him up, though (Wikipedia !), and learned he's a Japanese author.

What books of his have you read that you find meaningful, and in what way ?

K Frame · « **Reply #2 on:** October 12, 2008, 02:01:51 PM »

So, if you found the information in Wikipedia, that means he's actually a white Kenyan living in Rangoon and painting nilistic pictures on the hoods of burned out cars...

Silver Bullet · « **Reply #3 on:** October 12, 2008, 03:20:10 PM »

My Wikipedia reference was a soft dig in the ribs to Wild. He was constantly running it down over at The Firing Line.

My favorite was his response to someone who used Wikipedia for a reference: "Wikipedia ! You must be right !"

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #4 on:** October 12, 2008, 03:24:25 PM »

Don't look at me. Only Japanese fiction I read was Kosun Takami.

Mabs2 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 12, 2008, 04:15:26 PM »

I don't read enough English books, no need to get started on Japanese. :(

41magsnub · « **Reply #6 on:** October 12, 2008, 05:37:22 PM »

Does it involve tentacles and young school girls?

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 12, 2008, 05:55:17 PM »

I like sushi.

Mabs2 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 12, 2008, 07:05:56 PM »

Quote from: 41magsnub on October 12, 2008, 05:37:22 PM

Does it involve tentacles and young school girls?

We can only hope.

K Frame · « **Reply #9 on:** October 12, 2008, 07:16:19 PM »

Quote from: Silver Bullet on October 12, 2008, 03:20:10 PM

My Wikipedia reference was a soft dig in the ribs to Wild. He was constantly running it down over at The Firing Line.

My favorite was his response to someone who used Wikipedia for a reference: "Wikipedia ! You must be right !"

I knew exactly what you were talking about.

Wildalaska · « **Reply #10 on:** October 13, 2008, 07:18:22 PM »

So I guess no one reads him here (he has been translated you know)...

Dang, what a guy has to do to find someone who plays with guns and reads... (something other than Wikpedia

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280plus · « **Reply #11 on:** October 14, 2008, 08:50:12 AM »

Have YOU read any Ion Idriess? If not that makes us even.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Idriess

Scout26 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 14, 2008, 11:19:40 AM »

Didn't we sink it at either Midway or Leyte Gulf ??

280plus · « **Reply #13 on:** October 14, 2008, 11:22:09 AM »

Yes, I believe the ship wanted to go down with the admiral on board but the admiral left before it could. Talk about a wuss admiral...

Werewolf · « **Reply #14 on:** October 14, 2008, 12:27:35 PM »

Haven't read the guy mentioned but I have read Eiji Yoshikawa's translated historical novel about Musashi Myamoto twice.

Musashi is considered by some to be the finest Japanes Swordsman that ever lived. Rose from peasant status to acclaimed swordsman and IIRC head of his own school.

The novel as far as I know takes few liberties with the facts about the man's life as they are known and is (for me at least) one of those books that once you pick it up you don't want to put it down (which at 800+ pages you've got to do - unless you're a speed reader or something).

If one is at all interested in the Samurai tradition and likes action novels with depth then Musashi is a good read.

Wildalaska · « **Reply #15 on:** October 14, 2008, 06:24:50 PM »

My problem with Musashi, as a novel, is that it leaves you hanging at thened...but you are right, you can't put it down.

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Have YOU read any Ion Idriess?

yes, I have. And Burton and other works of a similar genre. We are talking novels here :)

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AZRedhawk44 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 14, 2008, 06:32:57 PM »

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Musashi is considered by some to be the finest Japanes Swordsman that ever lived. Rose from peasant status to acclaimed swordsman and IIRC head of his own school.

Funny thing about Musashi... he was a great duelist, but a terrible tactician.

I wouldn't look at his writings for anything other than cultivating the mindset of an individual warrior.

He lost big-time on the battlefield at Sekigahara in 1600.

280plus · « **Reply #17 on:** October 14, 2008, 08:20:39 PM »

Oh, I thought we were talking books...

Werewolf · « **Reply #18 on:** October 14, 2008, 09:40:47 PM »

Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on October 14, 2008, 06:32:57 PM

Funny thing about Musashi... he was a great duelist, but a terrible tactician.

I wouldn't look at his writings for anything other than cultivating the mindset of an individual warrior.

He lost big-time on the battlefield at Sekigahara in 1600.

True - but he was just a peasant at the time and at the beginning of his career.

I won't disagree with your take on him as a tactician though. He was a swordsman/duelist in name and deed. No general he. More akin to the fictional hero gunfighter of the old American west just 250 years earlier and real.

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Author Topic: Any Fans Of Haruki Murakami here? (Read 4490 times)