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Where is Murakami funny? I've found him wise and deeply moving, but never funny.


He is often wise and moving. But In Kafka on the Shore, a nameless concept embodies itself as Colonel Sanders, who is a magical pimp.

A line from The Second Bakery Attack1: "Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski masks. Neither of us had ever skied. But she didn't explain and I didn't ask. Married life is weird, I felt."

Murakami makes me laugh a lot.

1 http://ctina.com/bakeryattack.html


See "A Wild Sheep Chase." It's full of humor.




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