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.....
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am reading the 47 Ronin for the third time. Love that story. _________________
From the Simpsons
Mr. Burns: I could crush him like an ant. But it would be too easy. No, revenge is a dish best served cold. I'll bide my time until ... Oh, what the hell. I'll just crush him like an ant.
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"...?
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It seems to be cool, and not as hard to read. 
