What Are You Reading?

shin2 wrote:The ISBN is 1-880656-81-7. It is published by Stone Bridge Press. I believe I purchased my copy through Amazon.com. The book is over 400 pages long and retails for $24.95. Not only does the book give you extensive information on the history of Japanese drama, but it provides a lot of information about every dorama series from 1953 to 2003. Information includes English title, Japanese title, month and year televised, producer, director, scriptwriter, cast, what Japanese channel carried the drama, title of the theme song and who sang it, plot summary, and, when applicable, what U.S. channel broadcast it and if it had English subtitles when it was broadcast in the U.S. Oh yeah, it also has an appendix which gives the Mandarin title of over 140 of these Japanese dramas. BTW, one of the authors I mentioned in my initial post, Jonathan Clements, is also one of the authors of The Anime Encyclopedia, which was published a couple of years earlier and includes the same kind of extensive information about anime that The Dorama Encyclopedia has about dorama.

Oh man, I'm sold. Heading off to Amazon right now..... :)

Forgot to mention, BWMRacer, that Tales of Suspense issue looks mighty cool.

OK . . . I've actually been reading a buncha' books since the last entry. Time to share again:

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Dr. Wayne C. Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction, 2nd ed.

Actually re-reading this one. CLASSIC of literary studies.

has anyone read the "Da Vinci Code" i heard it's a best seller and most of my office mates are reading those.

what's up w/ that book :mrgreen:

zchendevlemh wrote:has anyone read the "Da Vinci Code" i heard it's a best seller and most of my office mates are reading those.

what's up w/ that book :mrgreen:

Read it yourself!!

hehe im currently reading that now, im barely on the 2nd chapter, its kinda boring near the beginning :sleeping:

I/m currently reading my textbook :doh: :hehe:

Am currently re-reading The Redemption of Althalus by David & Leigh Eddings.

reading lots of inuyasha fanfics as of late

some really great inu fanfic authors you should read:

search mediaminer.org

all stories by rozefire
the lucky ones by terri botta


search fanfiction.net

stories by jazz the wolf demon
- breaking the rules
- a fighter's story

I am currently reading "And the Ass Saw the Angel" and it's written by Nick Cave. He's a member of the band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. I was intrigued by the book even though I had doubts about him being a writer. Surprisingly, the book is really good. I am still in the middle so I can't say if the book will sustain my interest all throughout but so far so good.

I am reading "The Freedom Writers Diary." I have to read it for school

I'm reading Resident Evil Genesis which is a great book. :mrgreen:

Finished reading Cloud of Sparrows by Takeshi Matsuoka. Gotta get Autumn Leaves, the sequel to it. But currently, I'm starting on Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart.

I just picked up How to Be a Villain the other day.

Fun read and I'm lovin' the artwork.

Currently reading "The Bourne Identity", the first part of the three part Bourne trilogy. It's pretty good, very thrilling and interesting with all the political and covert intrigue. I'm surprised I didn't find this before, and that it came out so long ago(1980). If anyone enjoyed the movies as much as I did, you'll love the books too. Can't wait to finish the rest of the series before the third movie comes out.

Currently reading "N.P" by Banana Yoshimoto :mrgreen:

I try to read all the books of "Bernard Werber".

It's a book about ants, very interesting, it has changed my ways of seeing things.


I know his books are translated in many languages.

I know it's very famous in South Korea, with over than 1 million books selled there.

I don't somebody know it in Japan, or USA...

Then I want to red "Naruto", I haven't read any of the manga :( It seems to be cool, and not as hard to read.

I am reading the 47 Ronin for the third time. Love that story.

im reading one last wish by l. mcdaniel

Just got this from Amazon.com:

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Not bad, not bad... After a quick browse, I noticed some errors in characters names, e.g. for Musashi: Tsu instead of Otsu, and Ko, instead of Oko. Or is this a part of the Japanese language that I'm unaware of, to drop the "O"...? :sweat:

whoa i notice theres been revival threads up in there hehe but yeh good book huh oniichan? heheh