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Ryū Murakami

Born

in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan

February 19, 1952

Genre

Contemporary, Thriller, Horror

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Ryū Murakami (村上龍) is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker. He is not related to Haruki Murakami or Takashi Murakami.

Murakami's first work, the short novel Almost Transparent Blue, written while he was still a student, deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected Japanese youth. Critically acclaimed as a new style of literature, it won the newcomer's literature prize in 1976 despite some observers decrying it as decadent. Later the same year, Blue won the Akutagawa Prize, going on to become a best seller. In 1980, Murakami published the much longer novel Coin Locker Babies, again to critical acclaim.

Takashi Miike's feature film Audition (1999) was based on one of his novels. Murakami reportedly liked it so much he gave Miike his bles ...more

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Average rating: 3.59 · 113,387 ratings · 13,579 reviews · 244 distinct works • Similar authors

	In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami, Ralph McCarthy (Translator) 3.62 avg rating — 42,407 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Piercing by Ryū Murakami, Ralph McCarthy (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 18,161 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Audition by Ryū Murakami, Ralph McCarthy (Translator) 3.49 avg rating — 16,993 ratings — published 1997 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Almost Transparent Blue by Ryū Murakami, Nancy Andrew (Translator) 3.29 avg rating — 13,045 ratings — published 1976 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coin Locker Babies by Ryū Murakami, Stephen Snyder (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 9,489 ratings — published 1980	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	69 3.66 avg rating — 4,136 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Popular Hits of the Showa Era by Ryū Murakami, Ralph McCarthy (Translator) 3.61 avg rating — 2,551 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tokyo Decadence by Ryū Murakami, Yuko Otake (Translator), Marco Fiocca (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 1,529 ratings — published 1988 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecstasy by Ryū Murakami, Mihaela Butnaru (Translator) 3.36 avg rating — 844 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Fatherland, with Love by Ryū Murakami, Ralph McCarthy (Translator), Charles De Wolf (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Ryū Murakami (?)

“Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”
― Ryu Murakami, Coin Locker Babies

tags: travel

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“People who love horror films are people with boring lives... when a really scary movie is over, you're reassured to see that you're still alive and the world still exists as it did before. That's the real reason we have horror films - they act as shock absorbers - and if they disappeared altogether, I bet you'd see a big leap in the number of serial killers. After all, anyone stupid enough to get the idea of murdering people from a movie could get the same idea from watching the news.”
― Ryu Murakami, In the Miso Soup

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“... The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different than the sort you know you'll get through if you just hang in there”
― Ryu Murakami, In the Miso Soup

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What should we read in October and November?

Top two books via RANKED CHOICE win as October and November reads. Take a look at the thread for more info about books. Please check your local availability/price comfort before you vote. Again, apologies for going AWOL, but it slowed us down. Vote by Friday so people have time to get book copies?

Vote for your top choice in the polling. If you want, rank your other choices in the comments. I will tabulate if Bill will set up the spreadsheet. (Thanks, Bill!)

Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder); 288 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability—newly released in August; no obvious CWs

7 votes 50.0%

Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada (trans. Margaret Mitsutani; ~230 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; no obvious CWs

4 votes 28.6%

Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura (trans. Philip Gabriel); ~350 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; CW bullying

2 votes 14.3%

In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami; ~200 pages, depending on the edition; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; CW for significant violence

1 vote 7.1%

Journey Under the Midnight Sun aka (Under the Midnight Sun in North America) by Keigo Higashino (trans. Alexander O. Smith); ~530 pages; US and UK availability on Bookshop.org; CW—it's a murder mystery

0 votes 0.0%

Nipponia Nippon by Kazushige Abe (trans. Kerim Yasar); 155 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; CW misogyny, generally creepy male protagonist

0 votes 0.0%

14 total votes

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