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More recent reading:

  1. Vampire Hunter D, Hideyuki Kikuchi. This would be the title I couldn't remember in my last reading post. I saw and enjoyed the anime long ago, and got the book for my birthday. The illustrations by Amano are lovely, of course, although I wouldn't object to there being more of them. I like the story, even though sometimes it's almost painful to read (whether that's the fault of the original or the translation, I don't know). Yes, D's very pretty. Got it already.

  2. Dead I Well May Be, Adrian McKinty. Oh man, I think I've got a new favorite author. I don't remember if this was something [livejournal.com profile] claytonsghost recommended or if I stumbled upon it while wandering through Amazon, but when I saw it for $5 at Barnes & Noble I figured I'd cross one more item off my Amazon wish list. I loved it. It's dark, violent, and often very funny. I see there's another Michael Forsythe novel, I wonder if it's as good as this first one?

  3. A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick. Mostly I wanted to read this before seeing Linklater's next Giant Rotoscope Extravaganza. I'm sure I'd have been better served by not reading with a picture of Keanu as Bob firmly lodged in my head. "Whoah." Did I like the book? Honestly, I'm not sure yet.

Date: 2006-07-06 07:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anomaquandry.livejournal.com
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Date: 2006-07-06 09:01 am (UTC)
ext_12512: Hinoe from Natsume Yuujinchou, elegant and smirky (VICKI SO WINS AT THE INTERNET)
From: [identity profile] smillaraaq.livejournal.com
Re: 31, I do believe it's largely the fault of the original text. The guy who does the English translations is a longtime contributor to a VHD fansite, and had posted English summaries of all the novel plots years before the Dark Horse project; and even back then, he'd noted how the writing got less and less novel-y and more and more screenplay-ish as the series progressed.

(Not that I'm the sort of obsessive fangirl who's been following updates to a VHD fansite for years. Nope. Not at all.)

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