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I've only read until The Bishop Murder Case. Benson and Canary are okay, but Greene and Bishop are really required reading for any fan of the genre, because of the tropes they introduced to the world. Greene's influence is probably not felt that strongly in the English-language world, but it has found an almost strange home in Japanese detective fiction. And Bishop, well, Bishop is just really important (My thoughts on the two books in relation to Japanese detective fiction)
I finished reading Ellery Queen's There Was An Old Woman, which actually borrow heavily from both Greene and Bishop. A mad family which loses its members rapidly, a Mother Goose theme... Add in a bit of Queen magic, and you have a surprisingly fun novel (surprisingly, I say, because I'm not a big fan of the Queen novels of that particular period). And the last page has a nice surprise for the true Queen fans!
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It's interesting, I like the art style and Sebastian is hilarious. Right now I'm up to chapter 43...
Why does it seem to suddenly turn into a Detective Conan manga at that point?
There had better be a good explanation for this...
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And so far I can say it's better than the anime. Yuuko has more expression, Himawari seems like more of a useful character, Sakura and Syaoran show up, and I get a better explanation of what is going on in general.
I don't understand why Doumeki hasn't made an appearance yet though. :/
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Emiko Nabile Gale wrote:
Finally got off my lazy arse and decided to read the xxxHolic manga.
And so far I can say it's better than the anime. Yuuko has more expression, Himawari seems like more of a useful character, Sakura and Syaoran show up, and I get a better explanation of what is going on in general.
I don't understand why Doumeki hasn't made an appearance yet though. :/
And so far I can say it's better than the anime. Yuuko has more expression, Himawari seems like more of a useful character, Sakura and Syaoran show up, and I get a better explanation of what is going on in general.
I don't understand why Doumeki hasn't made an appearance yet though. :/
Isn't it so that you have to read both Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle and xxxHolic to understand what is going on in both manga?
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CatMuto wrote:
Emiko Nabile Gale wrote:
Finally got off my lazy arse and decided to read the xxxHolic manga.
And so far I can say it's better than the anime. Yuuko has more expression, Himawari seems like more of a useful character, Sakura and Syaoran show up, and I get a better explanation of what is going on in general.
I don't understand why Doumeki hasn't made an appearance yet though. :/
And so far I can say it's better than the anime. Yuuko has more expression, Himawari seems like more of a useful character, Sakura and Syaoran show up, and I get a better explanation of what is going on in general.
I don't understand why Doumeki hasn't made an appearance yet though. :/
Isn't it so that you have to read both Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle and xxxHolic to understand what is going on in both manga?
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That wouldn't been fair to be honest. :/ I read Tsubasa in the past, I got bored, even if it had Sakura and Syaoran.
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Emiko Nabile Gale wrote:
That wouldn't been fair to be honest. :/ I read Tsubasa in the past, I got bored, even if it had Sakura and Syaoran.
Well, it's how I understood it and keep reading when encountering talks about Tsubasa. Things that don't make sense in Tsubasa are explained in xxxHolic and vice versa. To be honest, I started reading Tsubasa and gave up after the first volume. The art was nice, even if it was very far from the shoujo-ish style that CLAMP did before, but it just couldn't grab me too much.
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Karin.Decent story I guess, terrible ending.
Spoiler: Ranting about said ending
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I know pretty much nothing about the Harhui Suzumiya series, so I decided to start it off from the very beginning: with the light novels. It's pretty good so far. The madness begins!
I never read the light novels, but I did attempt to read the manga once... I gave up after a few chapters, because it was boring me and somehow everything seemed to appear at once. Robot! Alien! Time Traveller! Whatever!
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I never read the light novels, but I did attempt to read the manga once... I gave up after a few chapters, because it was boring me and somehow everything seemed to appear at once. Robot! Alien! Time Traveller! Whatever!
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That's because you started in the wrong place. The manga is said to be the worst adaption of the series. Start with either the light novels or the anime.
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I never read the light novels, but I did attempt to read the manga once... I gave up after a few chapters, because it was boring me and somehow everything seemed to appear at once. Robot! Alien! Time Traveller! Whatever!
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That's because you started in the wrong place. The manga is said to be the worst adaption of the series. Start with either the light novels or the anime.
Ugh no thanks... I read up on Haruhi afterwards and realized it's not my thing. The Hare Hare Yukai was neat, God Bless is a neat song, but the story of it just doesn't interest me. And one giant time-space-continuum destroying thing with Mikuru's chestmole.
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I'm also re-reading The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray which is one of my favourite books.
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Oh and Noli Me Tangere: the English translation at the same time. I must say it shares a lot of similarities/parallels to Les Miserables.
I have a deep-seated love for it none the less. 
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Anyare wrote:
I'm reading Les Miserables again. The unabridged copy this time. I read an 'unabridged' copy months back but.. lies. It left a ton of details. I'm trying to make my fanfic which will probably never reach the internet o.O as accurate as possible for an AU.
Wait.... if the story is gonna be an AU - Alternate Universe - why bother putting tons of canon details into it? I'm not saying spit into the face of it and change too many things. But an AU would mean that things have worked out differently, changed even a tiny bit, which would have a huge impact on how their later life would have gone on.
How can it be AU if you basically follow the canon rules?
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I'm reading Trainspotting. I didn't finish it yet, but I already classify it as one of my top ten favorite books.
It's such a great book!
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Anyare wrote:
I'm reading Les Miserables again. The unabridged copy this time.
Words can't explain how much I love it.
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There is an English version available by the way, but it is a partial translation (Viz didn't bother with chapters that discussed genres not known at the moment in the US (the manga industry was very small at the time of publication)).
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), but the books I currently have on the go are The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann. The latter of which I started...oh, summer 2012 but never continued because my e-reader fucked it up. However, I found it in paperback and couldn't pass it up.
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Cravat of Doom wrote:
Well I have learned quite quickly that taking science in university does not allow time for reading for fun ( ), but the books I currently have on the go are The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann. The latter of which I started...oh, summer 2012 but never continued because my e-reader fucked it up. However, I found it in paperback and couldn't pass it up.
), but the books I currently have on the go are The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann. The latter of which I started...oh, summer 2012 but never continued because my e-reader fucked it up. However, I found it in paperback and couldn't pass it up.My AP US History teacher personally met Randy Pausch before his death in 2008. I haven't read any of his books, but he does seem like a genuine and wholesome man. He taught at CMU in Pittsburgh, which is where I'm living now. I'll have to check out his stuff some time.
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Seems the Tanith could prety much eradicate Chaos if they had more than a steadily depleting regiment. Gaunt's pretty badass in his own right, too.
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Yes, that is something I do when I'm bored. XD
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I'm bored, so I'm reading some yaoi mangas.
Yes, that is something I do when I'm bored. XD
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Yes, that is something I do when I'm bored. XD
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I'm a guy so I can't really understand this but, what exactly is the appeal of those stories? In my opinion, there's little point of in straight hentai either unless you just want to look at it like regular porn. IDK.
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CatMuto wrote:
I'm bored, so I'm reading some yaoi mangas.
Yes, that is something I do when I'm bored. XD
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Yes, that is something I do when I'm bored. XD
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I'm a guy so I can't really understand this but, what exactly is the appeal of those stories? In my opinion, there's little point of in straight hentai either unless you just want to look at it like regular porn. IDK.
I like H manga (Hetero or Yaoi) or even animated porn better than regular one because... it looks prettier. It does. XD
Although I noticed a difference in Hetero and Yaoi porn, animated kind. Hetero - and even Yuri I've seen - is mostly just really just plain fucking. But the Yaoi I watched was actually focusing more on feelings between the guys, not just fucking, heck... even the genitalia were not strangely off-color from the rest of the body or somehow over sized. It looked pretty realistic.
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I like H manga (Hetero or Yaoi) or even animated porn better than regular one because... it looks prettier. It does. XD
Although I noticed a difference in Hetero and Yaoi porn, animated kind. Hetero - and even Yuri I've seen - is mostly just really just plain fucking. But the Yaoi I watched was actually focusing more on feelings between the guys, not just fucking, heck... even the genitalia were not strangely off-color from the rest of the body or somehow over sized. It looked pretty realistic.
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Although I noticed a difference in Hetero and Yaoi porn, animated kind. Hetero - and even Yuri I've seen - is mostly just really just plain fucking. But the Yaoi I watched was actually focusing more on feelings between the guys, not just fucking, heck... even the genitalia were not strangely off-color from the rest of the body or somehow over sized. It looked pretty realistic.
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I just don't see the appeal to it. Maybe it's because I'm a straight male, but I have zero interest in yaoi. But to be fair, it's not meant for my demographic anyways. IDK, if you enjoy that kind of stuff than more power to you.
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* Bleach (chap 223)
* Kuroshitsuji (chap 62)
* HunterxHunter (chap 69)
* Nana (chap 45)
Yeah after a few months with 0 interest in manga, I'm a total maniac again...
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