2009-09-03, 21:06 | Link #1165 |
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: JPN around Tokyo
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1984 Murakami Haruki This is the latest work of Murakami. It is really interesting and well written even for Murakami's book. Interestingly, 1984 is the year when i was born, so, i could enjoy reading and knowing what things happen in the year.
The Old man and the sea Earnest Hemingway (in Jp) i don't find the book interesting.. it's kind of very shounen, of fishing.
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2009-09-04, 09:16 | Link #1168 |
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Age: 36
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I haven't posted here in a while, but I've been doing lots of reading this summer:
July 2009 Queen of Candesce, by Karl Schroeder What is Your Dangerous Idea?, edited by John Brockman A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama Pirate Sun, by Karl Schroeder Beyond Singularity, edited by Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman August 2009 The Search, by John Battelle The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett Mandatory Community Service in High School: The Legal Dimension, by Ronald T. Hyman Erotic Innocence, by James R. Kincaid Cry of the Wolf, by Rachel Roberts The Otaku Encyclopedia, by Patrick Galbraith Those two books by Frances Hodgson Burnett were purely awesome. They're so charming and classic-feeling, as well as being some sort of Victorian proto-moe. Probably the best books I've read all summer. |
2009-09-04, 11:56 | Link #1169 |
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Holed up in a dorm room
Age: 31
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Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.
This one was for school (AP English homework), and was pretty boring at first, but became more interesting as the plot progressed. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie It gave me chills the night after I finished reading it. A lovely mystery and a good quick read.
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2009-09-07, 15:30 | Link #1170 |
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Books I recently finished are Sword in the Storm, by David Gemmell, The Vanished Man by Jefferey Deaver and Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn. I'm currently reading Heaven's Net is Wide, also by Lian Hearn, which is sort of like a prequel to Nightingale Floor.
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2009-09-08, 01:19 | Link #1177 | |
Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 34
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Been reading Khubilai Khan by Morris Rossabi and The Early Chinese Empires by Mark Lewis for Chinese history class (and also the Ebrey Cambridge textbooks). The lectures are disappointing so far (the professor doesn't even question the common myths that pervades major Chinese historical events that these scholars do, and I get the feeling she's a bit too eager to espouse the glories of ancient China over her Western equivalents), but these books are very interesting. Lewis' book in particular questions major "mythologized" events and discusses subtleties of Chinese culture and philosophies in ways that I haven't understood before. I was particularly pleased to find that some of these ideas correlate extraordinarily well with those political and philosophical ideas theatrically expressed Chen Mou's The Ravages of Time manhua series which I had written off to be "just" a great modernized fantasy.
If you don't understand what I meant there, it's fine. I'm not entirely sure I do either. Quote:
Scholars of course did a lot of work patching things here and there and analyzing later oral traditions and whatnot which might shed more light into the epic, but I'm no great expert to be pontificating on this point beyond the basics. |
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2009-09-11, 21:58 | Link #1179 | |
Photographers are sexy.
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Finland
Age: 30
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