#Men without Women

[lets-get-lit]

Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in. 

- Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

[thenighttimeparadise]

I started reading the book 'Men Without Women' by Haruki Murakami and I already know I'm not gonna like it. I really hope it's not one of those "women are just as important as men bc we complete eachother, and women are so caring and gentle and sweet and there's power in sensitivity!". Or something about how men need women bc they're so lonely without them and again, we have to learn to appreciate the feminine qualities all women have, like liking pink and being cute and working in teams!!!!!. Either way, you'll be hearing my opinion when I finish it, which will probably be in a few months bc I'm a serial procrastinator.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

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Photo: Hulton Archive/Old New York FB

[decembrghost]

“Tobacco’s a killer,” Kafuku said. “Being alive is a killer, if you think about it,” Misaki said.” ― Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

[account4that]

That’s what it’s like to lose a woman. And at a certain time, losing one woman means losing all women. That’s how we become Men Without Women.

Haruki Murakami - Men without women

[sirius-you-know]

I'm enjoying life

*cuts to me reading Murakami on a rainy day, alone in my little room

[dead-reader]

we all know that murakami's books are quite... particular, so to speak. i was wondering, which one do you think is the best to recommend to a person who has never read him?

[betsy-the-eclectic-reader]

Life is strange, isn't it? You can be totally entranced by the glow of something one minute, be willing to sacrifice everything to make it yours, but then a little time passes, or your perspective changes a bit, and all of a sudden you're shocked at how faded it appears. What was I looking at? you wonder.

– Haruki Murakami, Sheherazade (from Men without Women)

[oddlywiredsoul]

"The place you return to is always slightly different from the place you left. That’s the rule. It can never be exactly the same.”

- Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

[litandlifequotes]

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway

[reading-cat]

Men Without Women

So, I started reading Murakami.

I’ve been meaning to for a few years now, but to be honest his books intimidate me quite a bit. Not just the length, but also the way people talk about them, this air of elitism that surrounds them, how his books are deep and philosophical and sure, while he might be a bit sexist at times, everything else about his writing is top tier.

Men without women is a collecting of short stories that I picked up because of my book club. I was a bit confused by the genre, since I’ve heard that Murakami writes mostly magical realism. This was all contemporary fiction, which left me a bit disappointed.

Did I hate this book? No, not really. Did I like it? Definitely not. The only story that really touched me was Yesterday. Otherwise, there was too much sex, cheating and a weird hyperfixation on erection.

And now, I’m unsure. Is this just a bad Murakami book and not representative of his writing or am I just too asexual for his works.

[myhikari21things]

Read of Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami (2014) (228pgs)

Translated from Japanese

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Men Without Women | Author: Haruki Murakami | Publisher: Vintage (2017)

[account4that]

Once you’ve become Men Without Women, loneliness seeps deep down inside your body, like a red-wine stain on a pastel carpet.

Haruki Murakami - Men without women

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

When I thought of how I’d been living, how I’d been approaching life, it was all so trite, so miserably pointless. Unimaginative middle-class rubbish, and I wanted to gather it all up and stuff it away in some drawer. Or else light it on fire and watch it go up in smoke (though what kind of smoke it would emit I had no idea).

Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

[samireads]

May wrap up 😗 the fact that they’re all Japanese books is totally coincidental haha