What books are you reading right now?

Anime Otaku Chik · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:03 am Post subject:

I'm so glad you added that last part, Grin. I was beginning to think you were calling Lost and I fat and old. ^^ I don't think that would have been pretty...
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GrinfilledCelt · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:12 am Post subject:

That's why I added it, otherwise the statement would be patently untrue.
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Hungry Mongoose · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject:

That's not true. I know plenty of non-goth people that read vampire books. Some are even males.

Maybe they're just in denial. I'll buy them a makeup kit for their birthday.

I don't normally read Superhero comics, but I've been getting into a few. The Warren Ellis run of Thunderbolts is fun. It's a superhero team consisting of supervillians! I particularly enjoy seeing Norman Osbourne barely retaining his sanity.

"Steel Spider."
"Yes."
"You said Spider-man."
"No I didn't. I said Steel Spider, man."
"You did it again."
"No. Steel. Spider. Steel Spider. Why would I say Spider-man?"
"I don't know."
"Shut up."

Invincible is good too.

As for actual books (well, they're not all books, but they're text), been reading some Mark Twain, some Hume, as well as Freud (for a philosophy essay on Postmodernism I have due). Once I'm done with that I'll hunt down Storm of Swords part II so I can continue the A Song of Fire and Ice series, as part I was a bad place to run out of books.
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GrinfilledCelt · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject:

Dread_Knight^Samurai · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject:

Romance...hmmm....the last time I read it, I barely finished a chapter. I was forcing myself to read it...and if possible like it...but...hmmm....elipses....
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swollenlymphnodes · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject:

I am reading the tales of Otori series by Lian Hearn.

And then I will recommended to Dread, and anyone else whoever got involved in the whole James Clavell, Musashi, asian epic novel genre. Or whoever has taken up the way of the sword. It touches on it, but has more assassin's but has that same yummy feeling I get reading Musashi & Shogun.

Lian Hearn wrote the series as a Trilogy

1. Across the Nightingale Floor
2. Grass for His Pillow
3. Brilliance of the Moon

Then she wrote a concluding book:
Harsh Cry of the Heron

And then she finished the series just last month with the Trilogy's Prequel
Heaven's Net is Wide

I've been reading it in the arc's order however
1. Heaven's Net is Wide
2. Across the Nightingale Floor
3. Grass for his Pillow
4. Brilliance of the Moon
5. Harsh Cry of the Heron
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Hungry Mongoose · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:41 am Post subject:

I saw that series in store and it looked somewhat interesting, but I was unsure of getting into a weeaboo samurai series. If the writing is genuinely good I'll check it out.
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swollenlymphnodes · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:03 am Post subject:

It's funny that you mention that. Since I decided to read in chronological order of the story instead of the order in which she wrote it. I basically read her newest book (with all her experience of the 4 previous novels) and then the oldest one (with virtually zero experience). And it shows.

I thought her writing in 'Across the Nightingale Floor' was rather crude, and the characters a bit clumsy if not outright cheesy at times.

Whereas, 'Heaven's Net is Wide' has excellent writing quality.
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MidNightBlue · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject:

Hungry Mongoose · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject:

MidNightBlue · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject:

Dry? I didn't think it was dry. I can't remember what else I thought of it, it was a while ago.

Let's see, what can I remember? It opened with that execution. He insisted on killing the guy himself. Woods. Wolves. Bastard son. A girl. Was she dressed as a boy? (Or am I thinking of a different book?) Family downfall and feuds. Armies moving in from the south? Escaping ... I can't remember what happened in the middle. Some blond haired girl? or was she silver haired? Or was it the horse that was golden haired? She got sold to that king, didn't she? At age 14. Or was it 12? Something was significant about 14. But there was some sex scandal that happened before that, incest? Dragon reborn.

Oh I remember the middle, that's where the wall came in. He decided to stick with the wall, didn't he?

Oh I remember what I was thinking when I read the book, I thought to myself, oh! no wonder he likes this book, he can identify with the main character. I think when I was reading what was going on in the back of my mind was trying to figure out why my guy friend liked it, so I think most of my thoughts were geared towards that.