March 11th, 2012 / 8:17 pm
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Breakdown of a Murakami Novel

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  1. March 11th, 2012 / 9:53 pm Michael Filippone—

      Dead on.

  2. March 11th, 2012 / 11:09 pm Nich Eggert—

      Ironing shirts

  3. March 12th, 2012 / 1:32 am olivia flint—

      is this based on actual data?

  4. March 12th, 2012 / 3:06 am Taylor Napolsky—

      This trivializes the hell out of a Murakami novel.

  5. March 12th, 2012 / 4:17 am Vomithelmet McGee—

      Yes! Been hooked since I read about cooking flavourless spaghetti in the morning.

  6. March 12th, 2012 / 8:21 am Bobby Dixon—

      No, she apparently spent like ten minutes on it. 

  7. March 12th, 2012 / 11:02 am Melissa Broder—

      haha 4.17% ears

  8. March 12th, 2012 / 1:16 pm Amelia—

      This is actually the breakdown of my life

  9. March 12th, 2012 / 4:20 pm Anonymous—

      dead on

  10. March 12th, 2012 / 6:41 pm leapsloth14—

      You definitely left out ironing. And what about clinical sex? 

  11. March 13th, 2012 / 11:47 am Newsday Tuesday « Books and Bowel Movements—

      […] Pie Chart of Murakami, for those of you who don’t have a weekend for 800 pages. […]

  12. March 14th, 2012 / 1:10 pm Anonymous—

      Don’t forget brand-naming.

  13. March 14th, 2012 / 1:21 pm Zachary Gomes—

      Could probably get breasts in for 1 or 2 percent of 1Q84

  14. March 14th, 2012 / 6:52 pm Tyler Curtis—

      what about boners?  you can’t ignore the boners.

  15. March 15th, 2012 / 1:41 am A Fettered Mind—

      It certainly does. Wouldn’t you love to see the same thing for a Jane Austen novel: 50% oh I love him, 50% oh no, he doesn’t love me! 

  16. March 16th, 2012 / 6:50 pm John P. H—

      Alienated, liminal males.

  17. March 17th, 2012 / 7:52 pm Flex Jance—

      4got the cover

  18. March 19th, 2012 / 5:19 am Triana H—

      hotel rooms, nipples. 

  19. March 26th, 2012 / 6:39 am Marijuana, gatti che parlano, gare di velocità tra lettori e altre cose - Finzioni—

      […] Cosa fuma Murakami per scrivere i suoi libri? Non lo sappiamo per certo, ma gli ingredienti che ritroviamo in ogni suo romanzo ci fanno venire dubbi più che leciti: 25% di gatti (che parlano) 16% di scene oniriche, 25% di donne dissociate…(via Html Giant) […]

  20. July 24th, 2012 / 8:26 am Review: Haruki Murakami’s “Norwegian Wood” « writereaderly—

      […] I don’t know what the fuss is about. The translator points out that this was the novel that shot Murakami to super-stardom in Japan, forcing him into exile to avoid paparazzi living. It was recommended to Bookclub as being not-too-weird and not-too-long: I’m beginning to suspect those factors go against the very principle of a Murakami novel (cf. this illustrative chart). […]

  21. August 16th, 2012 / 1:26 pm Jot Down Cultural Magazine | Librerías con encanto: La buena vida – Café del Libro (Madrid)—

      […] y nada, no hemos vendido nada; la gente que viene aquí es que no lee esas cosas… Sí tenemos a Murakami, o Almudena Grandes, Javier Marías… Pero ése es el […]

  22. August 16th, 2012 / 1:26 pm Jot Down Cultural Magazine | Librerías con encanto: La buena vida – Café del Libro (Madrid)—

      […] y nada, no hemos vendido nada; la gente que viene aquí es que no lee esas cosas… Sí tenemos a Murakami, o Almudena Grandes, Javier Marías… Pero ése es el […]

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