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Chloe wrote:
Case Closed Manga is really enjoyable. I've never watched it's anime counterpart.
Something keeps drawing me back to A Game Of Thrones. I've been rereading a lot of scenes, especially the ones with Dany in them. I've only got the first book in ASOFAI and Seasons 1 + 2. I've been exposed to spoilers, but they don't bother me.
Something keeps drawing me back to A Game Of Thrones. I've been rereading a lot of scenes, especially the ones with Dany in them. I've only got the first book in ASOFAI and Seasons 1 + 2. I've been exposed to spoilers, but they don't bother me.
I'm sorely tempted to stop reading at this point. Think I'm at book 4 now but it just seems like more sorrow and more sorrow with very little enjoyment to come out of it. At a certain point you just need to ask "Why put up with this?"
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Pierre wrote:
Chloe wrote:
Case Closed Manga is really enjoyable. I've never watched it's anime counterpart.
Something keeps drawing me back to A Game Of Thrones. I've been rereading a lot of scenes, especially the ones with Dany in them. I've only got the first book in ASOFAI and Seasons 1 + 2. I've been exposed to spoilers, but they don't bother me.
Something keeps drawing me back to A Game Of Thrones. I've been rereading a lot of scenes, especially the ones with Dany in them. I've only got the first book in ASOFAI and Seasons 1 + 2. I've been exposed to spoilers, but they don't bother me.
I'm sorely tempted to stop reading at this point. Think I'm at book 4 now but it just seems like more sorrow and more sorrow with very little enjoyment to come out of it. At a certain point you just need to ask "Why put up with this?"
It does seem like the bad guys are constantly winning... but that's not exactly true. Though honestly, if you're looking for a happy ending with rainbows, I wouldn't hold my breath. Could happen, but I don't think it's GRRM's style.
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Sierra Mikain wrote:
Pierre wrote:
Chloe wrote:
Case Closed Manga is really enjoyable. I've never watched it's anime counterpart.
Something keeps drawing me back to A Game Of Thrones. I've been rereading a lot of scenes, especially the ones with Dany in them. I've only got the first book in ASOFAI and Seasons 1 + 2. I've been exposed to spoilers, but they don't bother me.
Something keeps drawing me back to A Game Of Thrones. I've been rereading a lot of scenes, especially the ones with Dany in them. I've only got the first book in ASOFAI and Seasons 1 + 2. I've been exposed to spoilers, but they don't bother me.
I'm sorely tempted to stop reading at this point. Think I'm at book 4 now but it just seems like more sorrow and more sorrow with very little enjoyment to come out of it. At a certain point you just need to ask "Why put up with this?"
It does seem like the bad guys are constantly winning... but that's not exactly true. Though honestly, if you're looking for a happy ending with rainbows, I wouldn't hold my breath. Could happen, but I don't think it's GRRM's style.
Yeah well, it's not so much a matter of bad guys winning all the time (that happens too) but it's more the interesting and good characters are really dwindling that bothers me so much.
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The first was called "Darwin's Game". Think Battle Royale, but within the city and only participants of a game take part. Also, people apparently get turned into matter and leave behind polygon dents. (Maybe it's cause I'm suspicious to begin with, but I think I would stay CLEAR AWAY from a game that calls itself Darwin's Game... I mean. Darwin. Darwin Award. And such.)
The re-read one was Seigi no Mikata/Ally of Justice. The manga is about a girl's sister who is a total demon and is actually rude and terrible, but her actions always end up well for other people, be it small things like a girl not getting groped by perverts on her way to school (by following a tip from Sumiko) or to bigger things like accidentally getting an arsonist or criminal arrested.
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Almost finished...I really enjoyed reading the female blacksmith chapters.
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I'm reading Iago by David Snodin, but I'm not very satisfied. I've read 134 pages and so far it's just about some Italian guys I don't really care about going on with their lives and mentioning Iago now and then. And Snodin is throwing in some Italian words in places that seem absolutely random. "Pour me a hot bagno." I know that the novel takes place in Italy and that they speak Italian there! Right before it I read I, Iago by Nicole Galland, and that novel was so much closer to what I looked for. I had my problems with that book too, but it was a really enjoyable read nevertheless.
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I'm also reading, and that's... quite out of character for me, a collection of short stories by Stephen King, Everything's eventual. I read some King (or a lot) when I was about 11-15, and since I liked 1408 I reread that novel and decided to read the collection. Some are good, some are bad. Like I expected.
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It's a mystery to me how this book won several detective fiction prizes in Japan though, considering it's just bloody horror. I attended a lecture by Kishi Yuusuke back in 2012 on violence in media, in which he often referred to this book as an example, which is why I bought it. It's an okay novel with a touch of Battle Royale, but it's not really my genre.
A live-action film directed by Miike Takashi (of the Ace Attorney film) was released in 2012, and it's also out in the States apparently under the grammatically more correct Lesson of Evil (trailer).
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Finished the latest winner of the Mephisto Award, Marumarumarumarumarumarumarumaru Satsujin Jiken (The ???????? Murder Case) by Hayasaka Yabusaka (the Mephisto Award is a mystery/science fiction newcomer prize of major publisher Kodansha). Like so many Mephisto Award winners before it, an interesting, if flawed mystery novel. The set-up (a group of people on an isolated island. Murder) is fairly orthodox, but the solution to the mystery was okay and I doubt I will forget this one soon (even if the hints leading to the solution weren't strong enough) and the concept of a whatsthetitle (you have to guess the title before the last line in the book) is original, but the execution is a bit weak. The narration tries a bit too hard at being funny and meta though.
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I recognise it created a lot of the major tropes for detective novels, but I felt The Woman in White used many of the same tropes earlier and better.
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I recommend this manga (based on a novel) to everyone. It starts off lighthearted, but quickly gets dark. It's Slice of Life that quickly ends up in the Sci-Fi genre. Also has some Yuri elements in it, for those who are interested. But it's never so much yuri that it's flat out... you know, 18+ years old. Quite interesting, actually.
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The beginning was quite fun, just with all the ups and downs
But suddenly, we’re tired, from a waste of meaningless emotions
But suddenly, we’re tired, from a waste of meaningless emotions
시작은 뭐 즐거웠었네 오르락내리락 그 자체로 어느새 서로 지쳐버렸네 의미 없는 감정소모에
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Mary Faraday wrote:
I'm reading 50 Shades of Grey, because I don't really know what to do with my life so I thought the story about a pretty lady and a really handsome guy would help me what to do with my life, like putting up a few goals or something like that sigh
Please tell me you're being sarcastic, ironic or anything with this that is not in any way associated with being serious...
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CatMuto wrote:
Mary Faraday wrote:
I'm reading 50 Shades of Grey, because I don't really know what to do with my life so I thought the story about a pretty lady and a really handsome guy would help me what to do with my life, like putting up a few goals or something like that sigh
Please tell me you're being sarcastic, ironic or anything with this that is not in any way associated with being serious...
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I was being ironic. When you study a lot like me, a lot of weird things are coming out of your brain and then anything you say doesn't make sense at all. But I'm being ironic 90 percent of my life, so that's nothing new.
The beginning was quite fun, just with all the ups and downs
But suddenly, we’re tired, from a waste of meaningless emotions
But suddenly, we’re tired, from a waste of meaningless emotions
시작은 뭐 즐거웠었네 오르락내리락 그 자체로 어느새 서로 지쳐버렸네 의미 없는 감정소모에
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The beginning was quite fun, just with all the ups and downs
But suddenly, we’re tired, from a waste of meaningless emotions
But suddenly, we’re tired, from a waste of meaningless emotions
시작은 뭐 즐거웠었네 오르락내리락 그 자체로 어느새 서로 지쳐버렸네 의미 없는 감정소모에
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Mary Faraday wrote:
Reading Another right now. Such a great manga, I fell in love with the art style when I first read it.
Mei's appearance influenced my Yuu's appearance.
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I'm fed up with manga at the moment, swear.
The beginning was quite fun, just with all the ups and downs
But suddenly, we’re tired, from a waste of meaningless emotions
But suddenly, we’re tired, from a waste of meaningless emotions
시작은 뭐 즐거웠었네 오르락내리락 그 자체로 어느새 서로 지쳐버렸네 의미 없는 감정소모에
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It's interesting when the protagonist is not above brutally killing people with rusty nails and torturing scientists with paper clips.
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Didn't really like it. Same problem I have with Ace Attorney, she spent way too much time having her characters use a whole bunch of words to end up saying nothing at all, and it was going at a crawling space with background stuff going on, prolonging things even more. Also, seances and stuff like that added in at the later part? Dumb.
Now I'm reading my first Stephen King book, "Dr Sleep" which is a sequel to The Shining.
And I am happy to see Danny became a total loser.
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Last read: Robert van Gulik's The Red Pavilion (an okay entry in the Judge Dee series. Disappointing locked room mystery but good setting), Kuroiwa Ruiko's Muzan ("In Cold Blood", the very first original Japanese detective story in existance. Not bad, but its merits lie more in its historical value than as a piece of detective fiction) and William DeAndrea's The Hog Murders (Quite famous for being a succesful marriage between the serial killer story and a puzzle plot. Reminds a bit of Ellery Queen's Cat of Many Tails, also in the sense that they're great mystery novels) and Anthony Berkeley's Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery (as always with Berkeley and Roger Sheringham, a great detective novel with parody elements, though a bit tame compared to other books in the series like Jumping Jenny and The Poisoned Chocolates Case)
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Cann Kelly wrote:
I'm currently reading a lot of mangas. There are a lot which can be easily read on my iPad because I do not have them in paper form. I don't like buying manga, knowing that I won't read it again after the first time.
Yeah, as for me, I hate myself when I buy a lot of mangas as a book and then it's just there in the bookshelf and I want to slap myself for doing something so dumb because I easily know that I won't read it again. I feel you mate, I feel you.
Back to topic: I'm currently reading some articles on wikipedia because why not.
The beginning was quite fun, just with all the ups and downs
But suddenly, we’re tired, from a waste of meaningless emotions
But suddenly, we’re tired, from a waste of meaningless emotions
시작은 뭐 즐거웠었네 오르락내리락 그 자체로 어느새 서로 지쳐버렸네 의미 없는 감정소모에
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The beginning was quite fun, just with all the ups and downs
But suddenly, we’re tired, from a waste of meaningless emotions
But suddenly, we’re tired, from a waste of meaningless emotions
시작은 뭐 즐거웠었네 오르락내리락 그 자체로 어느새 서로 지쳐버렸네 의미 없는 감정소모에
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