2006-09-24, 09:42 | Link #181 |
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I've been reading on the history of Japan. There's nary a mention of anime, though.
I'm too busy playing DotA and being burdened with a heavy semester as well as having to watch anime to read books. Maybe come vacation time, I will. (I GO UNSEEN. LET SCREAMS FILL THE AIR!) Asides aside, Hirohito isn't evil or demented as some of you guys think he is. He was almost a puppet ruler solely used as the symbol of divinity, of godhood in the first half of 20th century Japan. Try as he might to do something about anything, the military was often in control and that made the government pugnacious (HAHA PUGNA) and belligerent. Just a bit of information.
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2006-09-25, 09:47 | Link #182 | |
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2006-09-25, 11:59 | Link #184 | |
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2006-09-27, 08:31 | Link #185 |
I am mowing clowns
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I just ordered the new Sony Portable Reader System PRS-500. I'll post some shots and write a small review when I receive it.
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2006-09-27, 08:58 | Link #186 |
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Just read Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy and Tawny Man Trilogy. It has been a long while since I read fantasy books and thus I read 6 of them in a row.
Wanted to moved on to sci-fi as it was even longer since I read the last sci-fi book but Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy was not available at the library. Neither is Robin Hobb's Liveship Trader Trilogy. Settled for Steven Erikson's 10-book Malazan series. Completed Garden of the Moons yesterday and now reading Deadhouse Gates. |
2006-09-27, 20:54 | Link #187 | |
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The last book I finished was Lucifer Gospel by Paul Christopher. It's the first book I've read with so many glaring typos. "There" instead of "Their" for instance. Man, the author must have skimped on proofreaders. |
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2006-09-27, 22:09 | Link #188 |
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Washington, DC
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Just finished Nabokov's "Lolita" for the second time this year. Brilliant book, I loved it even more this time through. Highly recommended.
About to start Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49." Yay post-modernists!
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2006-09-28, 02:55 | Link #190 | |
日本語を食べません!
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I can read a book for hours on end, but can't imagine staring at a computer monitor for nearly that length of time. Oh, and to remain on subject, I tried reading Lawless World, a book about America, its foreign policies both past and present and how they relate to international law, but it was just far too dense for me to digest. |
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2006-09-29, 06:25 | Link #192 |
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Besides the two writing books I'm reading right now (The Copywriter's Handbook and Writing for Story, I'm sloooooowly slogging through The Sword of Shannara. It's so poorly written that I have to put it down every few minutes.
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2006-09-30, 12:14 | Link #193 |
Disheartened and Retired
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: 加拿大
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I signed in merely to give a belated response of a private message I received a week ago. I did not know the message existed until I decided to rummage through my e-mails and discovered the private message notice. I really don’t check my auxiliary e-mails as often as I should. But regardless, if anyone wants to communicate with me, please contact me directly through my e-mail. Private messages to me will henceforth be ignored. Let this account rest in peace. But since I’m signed in, I might as well post something.
Pale Fire Nineteen Eighty-Four I’m currently reading Pnin. More than a Humbert Humbert admirer, I have become a Nabokov fan. Now, if you’ll excuse me. |
2006-10-01, 08:43 | Link #194 |
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After a five-month hiatus (I think), I've re-entered the delectable world of well-written classic literature with Kawabata's opus Beauty and Sadness. I should say it was at the least a magnificent work of art reflecting among the core concepts in Japanese consciousness, mono no oware or the sadness of things.
Other than that, I'm still a lazy arse ... but I've started reading The Problem of Knowledge in the hope that I'm going to gain more ... ^_^
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2006-10-01, 09:04 | Link #195 | |
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2006-10-05, 07:49 | Link #197 |
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Just finished the second book of Simmon's Hyperion tetralogy, The Fall of Hyperion. The new setting created in this installment, as the title suggests, has me looking forward to reading into the next chapter of this astounding history of the future.
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