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Shaw-Deez t1_ja04w4z wrote

There’s a chapter in “A visit from the goon squad” where two friends go out swimming in a river and one watches the other drown that is some of the best writing I’ve ever personally read. Either that or the chapter in “The Wind-up bird chronicle” when the general tells the story of being caught by the enemy and tortured in the desert.

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IskaralPustFanClub t1_ja1gjb9 wrote

The violence in that Murakami chapter caught me completely off-guard at that point in the novel.

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RogertheAlien86 t1_ja91ap5 wrote

“Murakami’s style always lulls me to sleep even if the content is off-putting sometimes, I’ll read a chapter before bed” - Me, about to approach that chapter in the Wind-Up Bird Chronice after having finished and enjoyed 1Q84

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