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"Re(1):Favorite books?" , posted Sun 25 Apr 13:06

I just finished a book called Angry White Pajamas. It's about a scrawny English poet/writer living in Tokyo. He feels that he is a very weak person so he trains with the Tokyo riot police in a special Aikido class that has training everyday. He gets his balck belt and certificate from the course and notes a lot of campy Japanese pop-culture things along the way.

A decent reading

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"Re(1):Favorite books?" , posted Sun 25 Apr 13:08

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"Re(1):Favorite books?" , posted Sun 25 Apr 14:01

Miyamoto Musashi (or just "Musashi", depending on the country).

Nuff´ Said.

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"Re(2):Favorite books?" , posted Sun 25 Apr 14:10

Owner's manual, good stuff.

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"Re(1):Favorite books?" , posted Sun 25 Apr 14:33

I read Shogun and Gai-Jin by James Clavell last summer. Both were great (Shogun was better). Probably anyone here would find them interesting, and he has four or five others in his "Asian Saga" that I haven't read.

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"Re(1):Favorite books?" , posted Sun 25 Apr 16:27:

I'm in the middle of a number of books at the momment:

Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver
John Cooley's Unholy Wars
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Personal Justice Denied - Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation, and Internment of Civilians

Quicksilver I'm reading for my own enjoyment as I've really enjoyed all of Stephenson's other books. As for the others, I read exerts from them in varrious classes I've taken, and found them interesting enough that I wanted to finish them. It's a shame I don't have the time to read books like I did in high school though given the backlog of books I need to read at the moment.

Edit: First post looked like crap.

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"Re(2):Favorite books?" , posted Sun 25 Apr 16:55

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

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"Re(3):Favorite books?" , posted Sun 25 Apr 17:17

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"Re(3):Favorite books?" , posted Sun 25 Apr 17:21:

Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn.

Amazing book. Ask me what it is about and I could give no proper explanation... I can only offer the suggestion that you read it for yourself.

It is such a good/enlightening/thought-altering book that I daresay everyone should read it. I don't say "everyone should read it" in any ordinary sense like somoneone says "everyone must play this game"; I truly mean it. You must read it. There isn't a day that passes when the book does not cross my mind in some sense.

After reading Ishmael, I read Danial Quinn's The Story of B and My Ishmael, and they are equally as unique as Ishmael. Quinn is something else, really.

I'm currently reading Quinn's The Holy, and it too is shaping into something beyond spoken words... I'm nearing the conclusion, and this thing just doesn't let me put it down.


http://ishmael.org/

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"Re(3):Favorite books?" , posted Sun 25 Apr 18:07

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Owner's manual, good stuff.

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Yeah,but which one? :p

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"Re(1):Favorite books?" , posted Sun 25 Apr 21:03

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"Re(2):Favorite books?" , posted Sun 25 Apr 21:15

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"Re(3):Favorite books?" , posted Sun 25 Apr 23:02

Favorite Book: The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Other good reads: Anything by Edgar Rice Burroughs is good. Particular books of his that should be read other than The Outlaw of Torn are Tarzan, The Mad King, The Pellucidar Series (begins with Journey to the Center of the Earth), and the John Carter/Mars series (which begins with A Princess Of Mars).

Some books by some other authors that are good are the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan; the Xanth series by Piers Anthony; The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis; and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. A lot of other works of Dickens' are very good too.

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"Re(4):Favorite books?" , posted Mon 26 Apr 00:58

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Owner's manual, good stuff.


Yeah,but which one? :p

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"Re(5):Favorite books?" , posted Mon 26 Apr 02:15

Well right now I'm reading Wou tch'eng-en's Monkey King tales, a really good one.
In a other hand Tolkien's "Silmarilion" is really good too.

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"Re(5):Favorite books?" , posted Mon 26 Apr 02:16

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"Re(2):Favorite books?" , posted Mon 26 Apr 02:47

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"Re(1):Favorite books?" , posted Mon 26 Apr 03:08

Just finished Neil Gaiman's Stardust. Cool. Also managed to borrow a copy of his Sandman series (Doll's House).

I like most of the Discworld books, especially the City Watch ones.

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"Re(3):Favorite books?" , posted Mon 26 Apr 03:13

I'm reading the third Disgaea novel now.
The writing's bad. And the book's boring.

WHAT AM I DOING!?

It's Flonne's sister. She made me buy the book.

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"Re(4):Favorite books?" , posted Mon 26 Apr 03:59

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"Re(3):Favorite books?" , posted Mon 26 Apr 04:07

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Not sure if I have a favourite book of all time, but the last book I (re)read was Watership Down by Richard Adams. Best rabbit warfare book ever written.
All because of the interest the (potential?) upcoming anime has put in me.

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This is a bit OT, but IIRC there were an mid-old Cartoon series of those. Where bad rabbit rules by a Black ghost rabbit tries to takes over a place of the good friendly rabbit. IIRC againt it was US made.

Back on the book now, they is the "heroes of the lance" colcetion for the heroic fantasy fan.

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"Re(4):Favorite books?" , posted Mon 26 Apr 05:52

One of the last books I read was Battles with Giant Fish by F.A. Mitchell-Hedges. Published back in 1924, it was 300 pages of Mitchell-Hedges telling obviously embellished fishing stories along with plenty of pictures of himself -pipe firmly planted in his mouth- out fishing. It was totally ridiculous.

A side note, but I enjoyed this blurb from the inside front cover of a copy of The 47 Ronin Story I picked up recently:

"Here at last is an entertaining account in English of the historical mass seppuku (diembowlment) of the forty-seven ronin, or masterless samurai shortly after the turn of the 18th century in the feudal Tokugawa days of old Japan."

Y'know, I had been looking for a story centered around ritual mass suicide, but I wanted an entertaining mass suicide story.

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"Re(5):Favorite books?" , posted Mon 26 Apr 06:33:

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One of the last books I read was Battles with Giant Fish by F.A. Mitchell-Hedges. Published back in 1924, it was 300 pages of Mitchell-Hedges telling obviously embellished fishing stories along with plenty of pictures of himself -pipe firmly planted in his mouth- out fishing. It was totally ridiculous.

A side note, but I enjoyed this blurb from the inside front cover of a copy of The 47 Ronin Story I picked up recently:

"Here at last is an entertaining account in English of the historical mass seppuku (diembowlment) of the forty-seven ronin, or masterless samurai shortly after the turn of the 18th century in the feudal Tokugawa days of old Japan."

Y'know, I had been looking for a story centered around ritual mass suicide, but I wanted an entertaining mass suicide story.

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the only thing im reading now is course books :(

and hagakure(its wierd)

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"Re(3):Favorite books?" , posted Mon 26 Apr 06:42

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"Re(2):Favorite books?" , posted Mon 26 Apr 07:00:

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I like most of the Discworld books, especially the City Watch ones.

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Count me in, specially lately, as the last 2 I read were in its original version, not translated. Discworld saga rocks. All of it. (Of what I've read so far, at least, that is)

Right now I'm reading El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, part 2, after having read part 1 a while ago (had to read the 2 English Discworld ones in between). Part 1's the classic, 2 looks quite more interesting, AFAIK.

Also, gimme anything by Agatha Christie, she's da masta. I specially recommend (chronological order, + or -): The misterious affaire at Styles, Three Blind Mice, Parker Pyne Investigates (have you seen The game? It was invented before), The A.B.C. murders, Ten little niggers, The witness for the prosecution, Murder on the Orient Express, The mirror cracked from side to side, Nemesis, and... WHICHEVER ONES SHOULD YOU READ, LEAVE THIS ONE FOR THE LAST, Curtain.

And that's all, apart from some others individually, but there are too many that I loved to recall 'em all now. Pérez Reverte's El Club Dumas, for example.

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"Re(4):Favorite books?" , posted Mon 26 Apr 07:08

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"Re(5):Favorite books?" , posted Mon 26 Apr 08:59

Michael Marshall Smith - Only Forward: The best Noir Sci-Fi Surreal Drama Fantasy Action novel.

William Gibson - Neuromancer/Count Zero/Mona Lisa Overdrive: classics are good.

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Good Omens: nothing bad can possibly result from a book by the creators of Discworld and Sandman.

Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere: Pretty fantasy story.

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"Re(5):Favorite books?" , posted Mon 26 Apr 09:52

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"Too many to list..." , posted Mon 26 Apr 20:45

...but at the moment,my favorite is Red Thunder by John Varley. It's a really cool alternative look at space travel, and very entertaining.

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"Re(1):Too many to list..." , posted Tue 27 Apr 08:39

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"Better late than drunk..." , posted Sun 2 May 18:14

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You certainly seem to have trouble remembering when you're at war, don't you?

Yes, but it doesn't matter, because I win them all, even when I don't even know they have started.

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Maybe that is mainly because you get external help to fight on these.... I teorize that if you are inside Kikkoken's body then he might fight these battles for you XD.

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Miyamoto Musashi (or just "Musashi", depending on the country).

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Wasn't the book called 5 rings?????? I'm reading that too. I'm also reading now a random Edgar Alan Poe short stories collection and for a change I'm reading what I write XD.

And I'm aiming to read - Dr. Jekill & Mr. Hide (re-read), Perfume, Macbeth (re-read) and maybe a few grafics novel from Gundam if I can get my japanese good enough (it will never improve, so I shouldn't bother to metion it).

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"Re(1):Better late than drunk..." , posted Sun 2 May 18:45

You know,Jack London is an incredible writer. Call of the Wild and White Fang are literary masterpieces.

I wanna try reading another one of his books when I can.

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