[ExI] Murakami again

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:15 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to William Flynn Wallace for recommending IQ84, I just finished the
> third book and it kept my interest to the end and I enjoyed it, although I
> didn't understand some of the symbolism if that's what it was; I didn't
> quite get what the "Little People" were all about.
>
> John K Clark
>

​Kind of you to say.  You're welcome.  bill w​

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> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 6:07 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> I have read his first three books, ending with the Wild Sheep Chase, and
>> none of them are literary fiction in the modern sense.
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>> In lit fic there must be considerations of conflict, bigotry in some
>> form, strife, and so on, with a mixed or tragedic ending.  He has little to
>> none of those, so he is going to get no great reviews from that quarter.
>>
>> So who cares what the critics think?  Read customer reviews on Amazon
>> (not ALL of them phony, I assume).
>>
>> The only downer is the translation, which I assume takes Japanese idioms
>> and metaphors and puts them into American:  'wasted' for 'drunk', for
>> example.
>>
>> bill w
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