Not as promised:

Nov 18, 2010 16:14

But hopefully still fun~!

We've been going to the library a lot lately. Which means I've been able to get my hands on a number of books. I thought, since I'd asked for recs, I might as well give a little back of what I got and give a few brief reviews of what I've been reading.

Book Reviews sound so much cooler than Book Reports, don't they? )

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lazzchan November 18 2010, 23:18:50 UTC
The third one is called "House of Many Ways" and it's a lot better than Castle in the Air, IMO. It's funny--the characters are interesting and I about died with Howl and what he did with this one.

:) Much better and I think more of a true sequel than the companion novel of CItA.

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magharabi November 19 2010, 17:15:53 UTC
Oh, thank you. I will look it up promptly. After getting a smidgeon of a taste of new, never before read by me Sophie/Howl/Calcifer snark, I'm dying for more! ^_^

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lazzchan November 19 2010, 17:16:37 UTC
:D

It was pretty well fantastic.

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zhadra_ahni November 19 2010, 11:54:41 UTC
Bah, All-Star Batman and Robin. >:| Frank Miller can go DIAF, don't judge American comics and especially the Batfamily based on HIS stuff.

>.> Not that I'm some kind of expert myself, I'm a casual comics reader, and more into Marvel these days (Iron Man and Captain America stuff), and the younger generation of DC heroes.

D'oh, I'd heard such good things about Fables. :|a /gives it a pass

I'll have to look at Brian Sanderson's stuff now, though, that looks interesting. :Da

Oh lord, I grew up on Anne McCaffrey, her Pern books among them. *__* Nostalgic looove. It's been so long since I've read them, though...Her later stuff in the series does get a lot better, though, I think. Some of my favorites are The Dolphins of Pern, The Masterharper of Pern, and All the Weyrs of Pern. Basically I loved best the stuff that delved more into the sci-fi side of things, there's some really fun stuff, and I can't remember anything like you mentioned with the innuendo later on.

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magharabi November 19 2010, 17:08:58 UTC
Hahaha, yeah. Like I said at the end, I'm almost determined now to find some incarnation of a mainstream American comic that I do like and will highly recommend. If you wanna shoot some titles my way, feel free~ ^_^ I guess what frustrates me about American Comics the most right now is exactly this problem. You hear about X-men and how it's awesome. But you can't just go to the store and pick up whatever volume says X-men on it, you have to find the right version of X-men. And there are like, 20. o.0 Whereas with, say, Rurouni Kenshin, you hear it's awesome, you go to check it out, "Oh look! There's only one." You pick it up, you like it or dislike it. There is no, "Well, maybe I got the wrong one?" or something. aslkdfaljssd srsly I need like, a map or something. orz *pleads with Daniel in your icon to translate for me*

If you're like, bored, Fables isn't awful. It just wasn't interesting or compelling enough to keep me reading, and I can be pretty critical about comics/manga (as you likely noticed). /elitist much ( ... )

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