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

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  1. Michael Filippone

      Dead on.

  2. Nich Eggert

      Ironing shirts

  3. olivia flint

      is this based on actual data?

  4. Taylor Napolsky

      This trivializes the hell out of a Murakami novel.

  5. Vomithelmet McGee

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

  6. Bobby Dixon

      No, she apparently spent like ten minutes on it. 

  7. Melissa Broder

      haha 4.17% ears

  8. Amelia

      This is actually the breakdown of my life

  9. Anonymous

      dead on

  10. leapsloth14

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

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  12. Anonymous

      Don’t forget brand-naming.

  13. Zachary Gomes

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

  14. Tyler Curtis

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

  15. 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. John P. H

      Alienated, liminal males.

  17. Flex Jance

      4got the cover

  18. Triana H

      hotel rooms, nipples. 

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