Sounds intriguing 🧐 We would love to read some Murakami…

It’s always great to read something that you might not pick out yourself! Did you enjoy them?

You mean you don’t like hearing about DOUBLE BREASTED WOOL COATS for 30 pages?! We basically felt the same way, but some of the consumerist language was interesting and if nothing else -did a good job of showing how insane he was.

No we haven’t, but it sounds like something that'd be right up our alley. What's a good book of his to start with? If it's banned we'll cover it on the show ✨

@@bannedbookclub I tried sending a longer reply, but it seems to have not gone through. The best introduction to his work is The Atlas (fifty-three interconnected stories about war, drug abuse, prostitution, and poverty). The hardest to get ahold of is his seven-volume overview of violence, Rising Up and Rising Down (though the abridged version is readily available, and the full seven-volume PDF can be found online if you search carefully). His two most controversial/vulgar/intense works are The Royal Family and Whores for Gloria, both involving run-down protagonists whose obsession over a prostitute leads to cruelty, violence, and self-destruction.

Thank you for the recommendations! I have never heard of this author so this sounds very interesting. 🧐 I will check it out! -Rafaella