What Are You Reading?

nekOzuki21 wrote:

yeah,great epic.but i can't remember who wrote it...
after i watched fruits basket, i was hoping that there will be a second season.my manga collections are incomplete.for instance,i have only Battle Royale up to vol. 5...

I am reading Battle royale too, i just loved the movie, sad ending though

Wondering if this book is worth buying: :headscratch:

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bmwracer wrote:Wondering if this book is worth buying: :headscratch:

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i have heard of this book, i think my friend has this book, i want to checking it out

bmwracer wrote:Wondering if this book is worth buying: :headscratch:

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Looks awfully like the poster for that Tom Cruise movie, "The Last Samurai." Just cut and paste Tom's head onto the cover. :hehe:

MissMonika wrote:Looks awfully like the poster for that Tom Cruise movie, "The Last Samurai." Just cut and paste Tom's head onto the cover. :hehe:

Yeah, they merged the samurai image from the hardcover Yoshikawa Eiji book with the text setup like in The Last Samurai... A marketing ploy.

started reading the da vinci code - not too impressed so far, the writing quality is rather tasteless. it feels like i'm reading some kind of hardy boys mystery...

No time to read. There's too much Morning Musume stuff to watch. :bonk: :beaten: :bonk:

I just read Spiral by Koji Suzuki - a sequel to Ringu. I liked it a lot, but apparently it wasn't liked in Japan.

Shindou wrote:started reading the da vinci code - not too impressed so far, the writing quality is rather tasteless. it feels like i'm reading some kind of hardy boys mystery...

Yea, this isn't the book to read if you're looking for character development. All the characters seem to be props for the actual story.

I read the book before I watched the movie, and even then I found that it read too much like a script. As if Brown was writing the book because he knew it would be made into a movie. Tactless... and really just one dimentional.

Mind you, controversy was good, anda the story itself is really interesting.

I'm currently reading The Chronicles of Avonlea. Not as addictive as the whole Anne of Green Gables, but I mean, you can't be Canadian and NOT have read these books. :beaten:

Shindou wrote:it feels like i'm reading some kind of hardy boys mystery...

LOL, is Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson mentioned in the book? :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
LOL, is Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson mentioned in the book? :hehe:

lol, i'll probably finish this book this weekend, some friends recommended it for the story, which i'm certain is quite shocking, from what i've heard, but the writing style definitely leaves much to be desired

Translated works of Pablo Neruda.

krim wrote:Translated works of Pablo Neruda.

i.e. the subtitled works of AV industry.

Shindou wrote:

lol, i'll probably finish this book this weekend, some friends recommended it for the story, which i'm certain is quite shocking, from what i've heard, but the writing style definitely leaves much to be desired

finished, not bad of a plot - but definitely feels too much like a nancy drew, hardy boys or agatha christie type of thing for my taste

It's about a girl who has a heart disease or respiratory problem and her mother beats her. She was set up to marry the son of a wealthy father who owned a hotel chain (not sure if it was in Korea, China, or Japan). The two ended up falling in love, but the girl faked her death in the ocean because she didn't want her mom to find out about them. There was another arc where she dressed up as a guy to join his gang in the hotel chain and he eventually figures out that she's disguised, but by the time he figures it out, she dies of her respiratory/heart problem before they can tell each other how they really feel.

It's like 20 parts long and I think the characters are Korean names.. I just know that it's a popular fiction online that many people have read. I just haven't read it in a long time and wanted to read it again. There's also an alternate ending the author added.

I think the title's "It was all because of love" or "It was out of love".. I can't remember.. Have any of you guys heard/read this story?

I'm looking for the title and the author if you know. Thank you. :]

The last book I read was from the German Author "Andreas Eschbach" called "Das letzte seiner Art" (translated "The last of it's kind").
It is about a guy who was upgradet to become a not defeatable soldier but the project went mad.
Was very interesting to read.
Now I think I wild read the new Frank Schätzing book.

You should be asking this question in the "What Are You Reading" thread.

Locking.

Smart Couples Finish Rich by David Bach

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So, are you rich now?


And do you end up looking tanned and fit like on the cover? :hehe:

Anime Dad wrote:So, are you rich now?


And do you end up looking tanned and fit like on the cover? :hehe:

I got the tan part down... the rich part will take some time.. :)