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Ranking Murakami is like ranking children

said by Tamir Barzilai

“Rating Murakami books if you're a Murakami fan is basically impossible. It's like asking which child is your favorite.”

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the forbidden wonderland of murakamiEp 10 · with Salih Yayar
Listen at 1:31:17 Read it in the transcript

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