NightSky Wrote:Yeah, I sluuuudgged through Norwegian Wood gruelingly at N2. People recommend weirdly hard things like that on this forum all the time--presumably on the 'just jump right in, you'll be fine' philosophy. It seems absurd from my own experience of facing that learning curve and what it was like.sunehiro Wrote:My first picks were Dragonball and Yotsubato.I have Norwegian Wood sat on my shelf next to me.
I always recommend Murakami's Norwegian Wood, too.
Why, exactly, would you recommend that alongside Dragonball for someone around N4 level?
At N4 even Dragonball would be quite difficult.
Besides, there are way easier books. I usually recommend 西の魔女が死んだ or 窓ぎわのトットちゃん as good books for beginners--but not until someone is approaching N2 at the very least. They're both fabulous books too.