Murakami's shit, pointless
and solely exists for poseurs to display on their Fair Trade bookshelves.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Sun 31 May 2009, 1:26, archived)

I like Murakami.
I don't have a bookshelf either. :(
( Cae1, Sun 31 May 2009, 1:29, archived)

Leaves me cold
and loses everything in translation, apparently.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Sun 31 May 2009, 1:31, archived)

It will but i can't be bothered to learn Japanese.
So what option do i have but to get it translated? or not read it.
( Cae1, Sun 31 May 2009, 1:34, archived)

True
fair enough.
It's still vacuous self-obsessed shite with well designed artwork and a certain outsider cool aesthetic if it's in Swahili.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Sun 31 May 2009, 1:47, archived)