His father, a violinist, read him countless pulp novels featuring dragons, wizards and elves.

他的小提琴手父亲向他读那些讲述龙、巫师和矮人的没完没了的通俗小说。

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Both his parents taught Japanese literature, but he preferred reading second-hand pulp-fiction novels picked up in the port city of Kobe.

村上父母都是日本文学教授，但他本人却更喜欢阅读神户淘来的二手通俗小说。

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The popular culture, ranging from Hollywood movies to pulp novels, invariably regards business as the font of all evil.

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That unsentimental education gave Mr Fuller material for the 23 films he wrote and directed, as well as for dozens more scripts and 11 novels which he happily describes as pulp fiction.

ECONOMIST: American film