| Book of Five Rings is fucking shit and so is Murakami. Of all books I've read by Japanese authors, I like 'The Unconsoled' by Kazuo Ishiguro the best. |
| lmao i like both Haruki Murakami and Kazuo Ishiguro (i'd rec 'Artist of the Floating World' btw), but i would also suggest Revenge by Yoko Ogawa. some asian gothic lit right there |
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| I honestly adore No Longer Human by Dazai Osamu |
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Annie_Law said: I honestly adore No Longer Human by Dazai Osamu As a greek person I am morally obligated to say that run melos (走れメロス) is his best work |
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| Murakami norwegian wood - love story wild sheep chase - some sorta mystery wind up bird chronicle - best thing ever hard boyled wonderland and at the end of the world - matrix stuff, SF sorta my lover sputnik - nice stuff install - not by murakami, won akutagawa prize, a movie was made after it, great stuff in here about schoolgirls and stuff |
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| The Old Capital- Yasunari Kawabata Kappa- Ryunosuke Akutagawa (If you want something short you can look up Hell Screen) Spring Snow- Yukio Mishima Hashire Melos- Osamu Dazai I Am a Cat- Natsume Soseki If you want YA lit try Legend of the Galactic Heroes (actually Murakami is fine too, I'd suggest Hard Boiled Wonderland if you like Haibane Renmei; otherwise read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and the ones suggested above) |
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Theo1899 said: Annie_Law said: I honestly adore No Longer Human by Dazai Osamu As a greek person I am morally obligated to say that run melos (走れメロス) is his best work Lol true I haven't read that yet, I probably should then. |
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| look at yudina's recs in this thread https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1829963 |
| i fucking loved battle royale |
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| I second Battle Royal, though if you haven't read it yet, Genji Monogatari is something that you should experience at least once IMO. |
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| where did you read all these books? message me links pls :) |
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CrimsonMidnight said: where did you read all these books? message me links pls :) you can find pretty much anything at b-ok.org or libgen |
| kokoro by natsume soseki no longer human by osamu dazai (highly rec) convenience store woman by sayaka murata |
| Detective Kindaichi - Seishi Yokomizo |
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Murau said: CrimsonMidnight said: where did you read all these books? message me links pls :) you can find pretty much anything at b-ok.org or libgen Thanks!! I'll check them out~ |
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| The Miracles of the Namiya General Store - Keigo Higashino The novel won the 7th Chūōkōron Prize. |
MiloDJul 14, 2020 3:27 AM
| The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea (Mishima) and Kafka On The Shore (Murakami) are two of my favourites. |
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feureuh said: Kazuo Ishiguro is British, not Japanese. Ogawa is good, I'm glad to see her mentioned in this thread.lmao i like both Haruki Murakami and Kazuo Ishiguro (i'd rec 'Artist of the Floating World' btw), but i would also suggest Revenge by Yoko Ogawa. some asian gothic lit right there To the OP, don't read Haruki Murakami. He sucks and isn't actually a good indicator of what Japanese literature is about. Snow Country/Kawabata Temple of the Golden Pavilion/Mishima Some Prefer Nettles/Tanizaki Kokoro/Soseki Woman in the Dunes/Abe Silence/Endo The Setting Sun/Dazai Kappa/Ryuunosuke Flowers of Grass/Fukunaga Tun Huang/Inoue The Changeling/Oe General tier list of Japanese writers goes Kawabata/Tanizaki/Soseki followed by Oe/Dazai/Ryuunosuke and then everyone else. |
YudinaJul 14, 2020 6:16 AM
| I really like The Kouga Ninja Scrolls. Book about 2 ninja clans that fight to the death. Also seconding Battle Royale. |
| Shoot first, think never. |
| No Longer Human Three Days of Happiness |
| Piercing by Ryū Murakami |
Thanakos said: Book of Five Rings is fucking shit and so is Murakami. Of all books I've read by Japanese authors, I like 'The Unconsoled' by Kazuo Ishiguro the best. I love "Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Murakami. I really like "Never Let Me Go" and adore "The Remains of the Day" by Ishiguro. However, neither author is considered Japanese when it comes to style and topic. They are Japanese but they live in the UK and their books, the style, everything is very western. Not bad but really not Japanese. I am currently reading "Thousand Cranes" by Kawabata Yasunari, the very first Japanese winner of the Literature Nobel Price. I cannot say that I am really enamoured with it but I keep on reading. Also because I also bought "Snow Country" and "The Sound of the Mountain" by Kawabata. I do want to find out why he was considered worthy of the prize. Two books which are not Japanese but Japanese-centric and that I can recommend are: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee She is American- Korean and the book is fascinating because it has a focus on both Korea and Japan and their difficult relationship. The style etc is yet again rather Western and not Eastern. and The Melancholy of Mechagirl by Catherynne M. Valente Valente IS American BUT she grew up in Japan and her style, especially in the short stories featured in this book are Eastern and not Western in style and flavour and I am saying this as a compliment. I love her work. She is a wonderful writer. |
| Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe. Read it for my major an personally though it a real good read. |
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| また、同じ夢を見ていた is a really good book from the same author as "I want to eat your pancreas". I heard that it recently had an English release. |
| I recently read these two books named The Guest Cat (Takashi Hiraide) and The Traveling Cat Chronicles (Hiro Arikawa) and I genuinely enjoyed both of them They are both more of a slice of life genre tho, so it's not books that you get completely captured in if that's what you're after. But they're sweet and gives you the good feels |
| If you're into crime fiction, Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino. And Confessions by Kanae Minato. |
| classics wise, anything by dazai osamu or natsume sōseki. modern literature wise, natsuo kirino (e.g. out, grotesque) and ryu murakami (e.g. in the miso soup). |
AnimeFreak-San said: is this a male gender issure...human issue...mental illness perhaps? |
| Read the works of Dazai Osamu, especially Ningen Shikkaku/No Longer Human. |
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