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“My Cheesecake-Shaped Poverty,” by Haruki Murakami (www.newyorker.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I want to love Murakami novels but the views on sex that bleed into his longer novels are very uncomfortable sometimes (looking at you 1Q84). Anyway also https://archive.is/8sNHt

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Personally never had an issue with that. OK maybe the beginning to 'killing commendatore' was a bit of a shock.