Late comment is late (I was at my grandparents' and they still don't have internet). So glad to see you're alive after all! :D
Finally! Someone else who likes Sherrilyn Kenyon! During summer I read about 5 or 6 of her books and I love them! Well, and I adore Acheron *cough*. Did you read the manga for Night Pleasures? It's pretty good for an OEL manga!
As for anime, well, I have to admit that I don't really like most of the more recent series. It's 90% harem or/and slice of life and I resent both genres. The only series I'm watching right now are Kobato and Tegami Bachi/Letter Bee. People keep telling me that Kimi ni todoke is good but I thought the manga was boring. But at least there's the Haruka 3 special in January and two series coming in 2010 - Kaichou wa Maid-sama (the manga is running in Lala) and Hakuouki (after an otome-game dealing with the Shinsengumi). Were you still around when Gundam 00 ran? If not, you should check that one out, too. Even if just for the pretty designs by Yun Kouga ;)
Hm... so many people are into choir music at the moment. But most only talk about Scala. I suppose it's the loli-effect (comparable to the shouta-effect of Libera?). Which doesn't mean that I don't like it. I might try to find some more of them (I only have two songs of them)...
Hee. I got into the Kenyon bandwagon rather late, considering she's been writing the DH books since 2003. I like the fact that her writing style is easy to read, though I have to agree with a lot of reviews that say she's more of a storyteller than a writer. I've almost completed her backlist by now, though it's hard to find her books used and at reasonable prices over here--I just lucked out on ebay for some of my books, and two years ago National Bookstore was selling some of the British editions at really deep discounts during their annual cut-price book sale. I bought them on a whim because the blurbs sounded interesting, but I wasn't able to get around to actually reading them until this year. I love the mythological background, but it seems that the series has been heading into more and more convoluted territory with all of those hints being dropped in the more recent books. And yes, Ash is the coolest. *fangirls* Too bad he's not the biggest, toughest guy around anymore, between those references to Jaden's and Jared's pasts, and Nick suddenly turning out to be a Malachai and all...
Hmmm. I seem to be reading a lot of vampire and shapeshifter paranormals this year, probably because my friends have been referring these authors to me...
Speaking of vampire authors, you might want to try Lynn Viehl's Darkyn books. Among the authors I listed (at least the ones in the list who do vampire romances), she was the one with (IMO) the best writing style, and she had an interesting take on vampires considering that she managed to mix in 14th century plagues, knights templars, and Robin Hood into the same series. Of course, since we're talking about 14th century knights here, the dialog does tend to be more "courtly" compared to Kenyon's books. And Lynn Viehl also writes sci-fi under the name S.L. Viehl, the StarDoc series, but I haven't read any of those books yet.
I also love J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood books, but the excessive use of home boy speak and slang can get annoying at times. I think she was trying to make the characters appear grittier (and more no-nonsense) that way, but frankly, if a reader isn't familiar with hip-hop/rap music and African-American subculture will have a difficult time wading through the chunks of dialog.
Now Christine Feehan... She's the author whose books come closest to traditional vampire lore. She's got a large and rabid fanbase, but she's my least favorite among these authors. Too many domineering alpha males for my taste? If I hadn't been reading books by the other authors at the same time, maybe I might have liked her better though. Her writing style tends to drag along, and if I were her editor I would probably have told her to tighten up her manuscripts a bit. Plus, the whole one-and-only lifemate theme does get old after almost 20 books and short stories revolving around the same theme. ^^;;
I'll look out for your anime recommendations. As for Gundam 00, didn't get to watch the anime, but I did see the character designs. In fact, I used them to terrify an acquaintance who's a die-hard Gundam fanatic. Lol.
Well... of course it's partly the Greek mythology that draws me to Sherrilyn Kenyon but on the other hand - she's wrong about many actual facts (this is were my inner Indiana Jones rears his ugly head). However, I think it's really refreshing that someone uses Ancient Greek mythology instead of the usual Celtic/Germanic lore (but you know that ^^;;). Also, I love that her males aren't alpha, but more, well, sub-alpha? They are silly and amusing and when they angst they even occasionally talk about the reasons. Also, you really feel that Kenyon loves anime and manga (I mean... look at Acheron!)
I tried to read the novels by Lynn Viehl and, yeah, Christine Feehan and just couldn't finish any of them. Too many domineering males and stupid damsels in distress. Maybe I picked the wrong books (I already gave them away so I don't even know which ones :/). Any tips?
Any male Gundam fan I know hated G00, even if solely for the designs. It's as sad as it is amusing (and here they say we were the ones who couldn't look beyond the outer appearance *lol*).
Agree on the sub-alpha part. They may all be huge and buff, but at least they have distinct personalities instead of being interchangeable. That's one of the things that annoyed me about Christine Feehan's Carpathians. You've read about one, you've read about them all.
Kenyon's a self-confessed otaku. I think the Dark Hunter Companion actually lists Ash's favorite manga/anime (all vampire stories, go figure), and Ash attends Dragon-Con every year with Simi in tow (it's the only place where she really fits in considering her fashion taste and weird quirks).
As to the historical and mythological inaccuracies, Kenyon does admit somewhere that she took liberties with the timeline and such, I just can't remember if it was in an interview or in the DH companion. So what inaccuracies have caused your inner Indiana Jones to rear his head then? ^_^
You found Lynn Viehl unreadable? Or was that comment for Feehan? For Viehl I'd suggest book 3, Dark Need (I've only read up to here so far), as the hero seems to be one of the most in-your-face characters (seeing as he's an assassin and not a former knight) in the series, and the heroine's a homicide cop. I didn't find Viehl's heroes particularly domineering myself though (outside of the norm for most modern romance novels, that is, meaning nowhere near Feehan-type alpha male domineering), and the heroines are a mixed bunch with different backgrounds. Then again, if the Viehl book that you read was the first one, the hero there may have been a bit domineering, though the heroine (who is a former street kid turned foster care kid turned reconstructive surgeon) did give him a run for his money and was actually smart enough to come up with solutions to problems by herself and know when she should stay away from uneccessary danger and when she shouldn't.
For Feehan, well, the least objectionable book I've read is Dark Legend (which I probably would have bought just for the John Ennis cover art anyway), because the heroine isn't a twit and actually makes the hero sing for his supper, so to speak. In the next book, Dark Guardian, the heroine's a cop, but she seems to come with a lot of emotional baggage so I don't know, maybe she might turn into your typical snivelling damsel in distress once the hero shows up (never read this one so I can't say what happens). I had to force myself to finish reading the Feehan books I got, and it's as much due to Feehan's clunky and repetitive writing style as it is to her annoyingly similar alpha males.
Any male Gundam fan I know hated G00, even if solely for the designs.
LOL. So true. The purists were already dissing the franchise for selling out back when Gundam Wing came out, what more when they get an actual yaoi mangaka to do the character designs? ^O^
Oooh, the Carpathians. I think this was the book I read with the useless tsundere redhead I hated so much *sigh*. But the 'heros' and 'heroines' sort of all blur together in my head.
I didn't read the Dark Hunter Companion but Ash's love for comics and anime gets mentioned in almost every novel ^^. And yeah, I agree with Simi.
Well, the inacurracies that irritate me most usually have to do with Greek history and prehistory. The Thracians, for example, weren't even Greek. They didn't speak Greek either. Instead it was a different Indoeuropean language which was probably related to Greek but since they didn't have a writing system archaeologists still don't know much about it. Personally, I think her way of portaying them would have worked out perfectly well with Macedonians (who actually were some kind of Greek tribe) but not Thracians. Also, a Thracian prince would never ever be called Julian, particularly not if they hated the Romans as much as they did. And her vision of 10 000 BC Greece is pretty inaccurate, too. There were no Greeks. At all. Greek culture started with the Myceneans which were the first people who really spoke a kind of proto-Greek, who invaded this part of Europe around 1800 BC (you know about my obsession with the Minoans. That's why I know this. You can't read up anything about the Minoans without getting more information on the Myceneans than you ever wanted). I know that she writes this to get the whole Atlantis-thing across but the archaeologist in me cringes every time Athens and Atlantis are mentioned in the same sentence (which is pretty often in 'Acheron'). But I still love the books ^^;;
OK, so I'll try to find cheap copies of Dark Need and Dark Legend. On a totally different note - did you read The Hunger Games? If not, you should! This book (and the sequel) really gripped me in a way few books do.
In February a new Gundam OAV will come out but from what I found online the designs are VERY old-school (think Char's Counterattack). I will probably download and watch it but, frankly, they are ugly. The trailer, however, sort of made me feel nostalgic *smiles sheepishly*
Hmmm. My memory's a bit fuzzy since I read Fantasy Lover and Night Pleasures first, but I think Kyrian was the Thracian prince and Julian was a Macedonian general.
Seeing as I live in Asia, a lot of my history lessons focused more on Asian history (have an ongoing obsession with the Three Kingdoms period, no thanks to the movie Red Cliff). But if I remember correctly, the Minoan civilization was supposed to be centered around Crete, right? And Mycenean Greece was pretty much at the end of the Bronze Age?
Well, about the Atlantis thing, didn't Kenyon use Appolymi's wrath as the reason why "Greek" culture regressed to the stone age or something like that? I haven't re-read Acheron yet either so I'm kind of fuzzy on the details. Then again, were there even people living in the general area of Athens at the time? Something that Kenyon conveniently explains away as the archeological record is only as good as the next find.
The problem with the Darkyn series is that the books are interconnected, and once you read one, you'll want to read the others if only to find out what happened to the loose ends. But I would suggest Dark Need first, as it has, IMO, the best chemistry between the hero and the heroine, and the hero is pretty much in the loveable bad-guy anti-hero category. Correction though, seems he *was* a Templar knight after all, but he turned assassin once he became Darkyn. Then again, the hero in Twilight Fall (book 6) is Austian (he first appears in Private Demon, which is book 2), so you might get a kick out of seeing the random German phrases and endearments being thrown around? And the heroine in that book is Chinese, so I give Viehl points for writing a cross-racial romance.
Is Hunger Games a YA series? I seem to remember reading about it in a blurb somewhere. Hmmm, will hit the bookstores to see if I can find copies of the books.
Char's counterattack?! That is definitely old school. Got any links to the character designs so I can see for myself?
*oops* Yeah, you're right ^^;; But even as a Macedon, Julian wouldn't be called Julian (Iulius and all its derivates is a very, very Roman name).
Yes, the Minoan civilisation was centered mainly in Crete and Santorini but a common theory is that they were conquered by Mycenean troops around 1400 - 1200 BC since their power was severely weakened by the great bronze age eruption of the vulcano of Thera (Santorini).
And, while there probably were indeed human beings in Greece and around the Aegean during the late palaeolithic, but they were not Greek. The first Greeks as we know them were the Myceneans who arrived there in the early 3rd/late 2nd millenium BC, at least according to Wikipedia.
I know I sound pedantic but it doesn't really bother me in the books. I mean, not really. Only maybe a little? ^^;; *hides*
I'll try to find the books. And yes, The Hunger Games is YA but really good! Actually, I think they are very distopian and disturbing to be YA but when I was the age most people read these kinds of books I mostly read non-fiction about archaeology and astronomy. I was a strange child. But then, most YA books then were shitty and the few which were translated into German were probably handpicked by teachers and the like and this guaranteed that they were the most boring literature on earth :/
Here is one of the (better) trailers; the animation looks top-notch but I'm not sure yet I can get over the ugly designs. I suppose I've just become too used to Gundam (and Macross) designers catering to female aesthetics *sigh*.
Hehe. Well, Kenyon's degree was in medieval history or something like that. But even her medieval books that she writes under the name Kinley MacGregor have problems. I read one book that had one of the characters mention saving the hero from the "great ovarian horde" or something like that. As if they knew what ovaries were back in the middle ages.
i>I know I sound pedantic but it doesn't really bother me in the books. I mean, not really. Only maybe a little? ^^;; *hides*
I so understand the feeling. But I suppose it's OK to let our inner fangirls triumph over our inner geeks once in a while? ^^;;
Checked out Hunger Games at National Bookstore. They actually have an ongoing contest tied up to the books right now, but I think I've already blown my book budget for the next two months with all the books I've been buying lately. Ditto on the archaeology, not so much on the astronomy (I can't identify any constellations to save my life). They probably just translated the Newberry winners and ALA top picks books into German. I highly doubt that they would have translated the Christpher Pike, R.L. Stine, and L.J. Smith type stories into German. Speaking of German transaltions, I think the German edition (it's listed in amazon.de) of If Angels Fall, the first book in the Darkyn series, is actually coming out this year. Of course, since can read English just fine, would you even bother with the German ed?
Haven't checked out the trailer yet, since my brother's utorrent is hogging all of the bandwidth from the router.
I didn't read any of her Kinley McGregor books yet. I'm just so fed up with anything medieval, particularly of the Irish/Scottish/Nordic kind. A book would have to be very, very well written to make me read it ^^;;
Actually, I haven't read a novel in German for ages. I don't even know which authors get translated these days and which don't. Also, another reason why I didn't read much YA back then was that usually the German editions of anything new are HC first and then they wait for the whole series to be translated until they publish the first paperback (I think they've yet to publish any of the Harry Potter novels in paperback). And of course I didn't have much money back then. And in the library, every new novel generally had a long waiting list. So I usually rather watched TV and spent much of my money on comics (I still think I have tons of Elfquest GN-like books somewhere ^^;;). The only books I rememeber reading back then which I would (and do, occassionally) re-read in German were the Tortall novels by Tamora Pierce.
Um... don't tell anyone but if you want to read the Hunger Games anyway, go to 4shared.com and insert Hunger Games into the search field. You should get a wide variety of PDFs, LIT and TXT-files. But don't tell anyone (the last thing anyone needs are DMCA guys finding out about this method of getting books the cheapest way) ;) (but I still bought most of my books!)
but frankly, if a reader isn't familiar with hip-hop/rap music and African-American subculture will have a difficult time wading through the chunks of dialog.
That was supposed to be: but frankly, if a reader isn't familiar with hip-hop/rap music and African-American subculture, he or she will have a difficult time wading through the chunks of dialog.
Oh, and I forgot to comment about the Dark Hunter manga. I don't own a copy, but I was able to browse it in the bookstore, and yeah, the art's decent. They seem to have decided on a PG rating though, since the love scenes weren't even depicted. LOL.
Finally! Someone else who likes Sherrilyn Kenyon! During summer I read about 5 or 6 of her books and I love them! Well, and I adore Acheron *cough*. Did you read the manga for Night Pleasures? It's pretty good for an OEL manga!
As for anime, well, I have to admit that I don't really like most of the more recent series. It's 90% harem or/and slice of life and I resent both genres. The only series I'm watching right now are Kobato and Tegami Bachi/Letter Bee. People keep telling me that Kimi ni todoke is good but I thought the manga was boring. But at least there's the Haruka 3 special in January and two series coming in 2010 - Kaichou wa Maid-sama (the manga is running in Lala) and Hakuouki (after an otome-game dealing with the Shinsengumi). Were you still around when Gundam 00 ran? If not, you should check that one out, too. Even if just for the pretty designs by Yun Kouga ;)
Hm... so many people are into choir music at the moment. But most only talk about Scala. I suppose it's the loli-effect (comparable to the shouta-effect of Libera?). Which doesn't mean that I don't like it. I might try to find some more of them (I only have two songs of them)...
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Hmmm. I seem to be reading a lot of vampire and shapeshifter paranormals this year, probably because my friends have been referring these authors to me...
Speaking of vampire authors, you might want to try Lynn Viehl's Darkyn books. Among the authors I listed (at least the ones in the list who do vampire romances), she was the one with (IMO) the best writing style, and she had an interesting take on vampires considering that she managed to mix in 14th century plagues, knights templars, and Robin Hood into the same series. Of course, since we're talking about 14th century knights here, the dialog does tend to be more "courtly" compared to Kenyon's books. And Lynn Viehl also writes sci-fi under the name S.L. Viehl, the StarDoc series, but I haven't read any of those books yet.
I also love J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood books, but the excessive use of home boy speak and slang can get annoying at times. I think she was trying to make the characters appear grittier (and more no-nonsense) that way, but frankly, if a reader isn't familiar with hip-hop/rap music and African-American subculture will have a difficult time wading through the chunks of dialog.
Now Christine Feehan... She's the author whose books come closest to traditional vampire lore. She's got a large and rabid fanbase, but she's my least favorite among these authors. Too many domineering alpha males for my taste? If I hadn't been reading books by the other authors at the same time, maybe I might have liked her better though. Her writing style tends to drag along, and if I were her editor I would probably have told her to tighten up her manuscripts a bit. Plus, the whole one-and-only lifemate theme does get old after almost 20 books and short stories revolving around the same theme. ^^;;
I'll look out for your anime recommendations. As for Gundam 00, didn't get to watch the anime, but I did see the character designs. In fact, I used them to terrify an acquaintance who's a die-hard Gundam fanatic. Lol.
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I tried to read the novels by Lynn Viehl and, yeah, Christine Feehan and just couldn't finish any of them. Too many domineering males and stupid damsels in distress. Maybe I picked the wrong books (I already gave them away so I don't even know which ones :/). Any tips?
Any male Gundam fan I know hated G00, even if solely for the designs. It's as sad as it is amusing (and here they say we were the ones who couldn't look beyond the outer appearance *lol*).
(I think I need an Acheron icon or something)
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Kenyon's a self-confessed otaku. I think the Dark Hunter Companion actually lists Ash's favorite manga/anime (all vampire stories, go figure), and Ash attends Dragon-Con every year with Simi in tow (it's the only place where she really fits in considering her fashion taste and weird quirks).
As to the historical and mythological inaccuracies, Kenyon does admit somewhere that she took liberties with the timeline and such, I just can't remember if it was in an interview or in the DH companion. So what inaccuracies have caused your inner Indiana Jones to rear his head then? ^_^
You found Lynn Viehl unreadable? Or was that comment for Feehan? For Viehl I'd suggest book 3, Dark Need (I've only read up to here so far), as the hero seems to be one of the most in-your-face characters (seeing as he's an assassin and not a former knight) in the series, and the heroine's a homicide cop. I didn't find Viehl's heroes particularly domineering myself though (outside of the norm for most modern romance novels, that is, meaning nowhere near Feehan-type alpha male domineering), and the heroines are a mixed bunch with different backgrounds. Then again, if the Viehl book that you read was the first one, the hero there may have been a bit domineering, though the heroine (who is a former street kid turned foster care kid turned reconstructive surgeon) did give him a run for his money and was actually smart enough to come up with solutions to problems by herself and know when she should stay away from uneccessary danger and when she shouldn't.
For Feehan, well, the least objectionable book I've read is Dark Legend (which I probably would have bought just for the John Ennis cover art anyway), because the heroine isn't a twit and actually makes the hero sing for his supper, so to speak. In the next book, Dark Guardian, the heroine's a cop, but she seems to come with a lot of emotional baggage so I don't know, maybe she might turn into your typical snivelling damsel in distress once the hero shows up (never read this one so I can't say what happens). I had to force myself to finish reading the Feehan books I got, and it's as much due to Feehan's clunky and repetitive writing style as it is to her annoyingly similar alpha males.
Any male Gundam fan I know hated G00, even if solely for the designs.
LOL. So true. The purists were already dissing the franchise for selling out back when Gundam Wing came out, what more when they get an actual yaoi mangaka to do the character designs? ^O^
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I didn't read the Dark Hunter Companion but Ash's love for comics and anime gets mentioned in almost every novel ^^. And yeah, I agree with Simi.
Well, the inacurracies that irritate me most usually have to do with Greek history and prehistory. The Thracians, for example, weren't even Greek. They didn't speak Greek either. Instead it was a different Indoeuropean language which was probably related to Greek but since they didn't have a writing system archaeologists still don't know much about it. Personally, I think her way of portaying them would have worked out perfectly well with Macedonians (who actually were some kind of Greek tribe) but not Thracians. Also, a Thracian prince would never ever be called Julian, particularly not if they hated the Romans as much as they did. And her vision of 10 000 BC Greece is pretty inaccurate, too. There were no Greeks. At all. Greek culture started with the Myceneans which were the first people who really spoke a kind of proto-Greek, who invaded this part of Europe around 1800 BC (you know about my obsession with the Minoans. That's why I know this. You can't read up anything about the Minoans without getting more information on the Myceneans than you ever wanted). I know that she writes this to get the whole Atlantis-thing across but the archaeologist in me cringes every time Athens and Atlantis are mentioned in the same sentence (which is pretty often in 'Acheron'). But I still love the books ^^;;
OK, so I'll try to find cheap copies of Dark Need and Dark Legend. On a totally different note - did you read The Hunger Games? If not, you should! This book (and the sequel) really gripped me in a way few books do.
In February a new Gundam OAV will come out but from what I found online the designs are VERY old-school (think Char's Counterattack). I will probably download and watch it but, frankly, they are ugly. The trailer, however, sort of made me feel nostalgic *smiles sheepishly*
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Seeing as I live in Asia, a lot of my history lessons focused more on Asian history (have an ongoing obsession with the Three Kingdoms period, no thanks to the movie Red Cliff). But if I remember correctly, the Minoan civilization was supposed to be centered around Crete, right? And Mycenean Greece was pretty much at the end of the Bronze Age?
Well, about the Atlantis thing, didn't Kenyon use Appolymi's wrath as the reason why "Greek" culture regressed to the stone age or something like that? I haven't re-read Acheron yet either so I'm kind of fuzzy on the details. Then again, were there even people living in the general area of Athens at the time? Something that Kenyon conveniently explains away as the archeological record is only as good as the next find.
The problem with the Darkyn series is that the books are interconnected, and once you read one, you'll want to read the others if only to find out what happened to the loose ends. But I would suggest Dark Need first, as it has, IMO, the best chemistry between the hero and the heroine, and the hero is pretty much in the loveable bad-guy anti-hero category. Correction though, seems he *was* a Templar knight after all, but he turned assassin once he became Darkyn. Then again, the hero in Twilight Fall (book 6) is Austian (he first appears in Private Demon, which is book 2), so you might get a kick out of seeing the random German phrases and endearments being thrown around? And the heroine in that book is Chinese, so I give Viehl points for writing a cross-racial romance.
Is Hunger Games a YA series? I seem to remember reading about it in a blurb somewhere. Hmmm, will hit the bookstores to see if I can find copies of the books.
Char's counterattack?! That is definitely old school. Got any links to the character designs so I can see for myself?
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Yes, the Minoan civilisation was centered mainly in Crete and Santorini but a common theory is that they were conquered by Mycenean troops around 1400 - 1200 BC since their power was severely weakened by the great bronze age eruption of the vulcano of Thera (Santorini).
And, while there probably were indeed human beings in Greece and around the Aegean during the late palaeolithic, but they were not Greek. The first Greeks as we know them were the Myceneans who arrived there in the early 3rd/late 2nd millenium BC, at least according to Wikipedia.
I know I sound pedantic but it doesn't really bother me in the books. I mean, not really. Only maybe a little? ^^;; *hides*
I'll try to find the books. And yes, The Hunger Games is YA but really good! Actually, I think they are very distopian and disturbing to be YA but when I was the age most people read these kinds of books I mostly read non-fiction about archaeology and astronomy. I was a strange child. But then, most YA books then were shitty and the few which were translated into German were probably handpicked by teachers and the like and this guaranteed that they were the most boring literature on earth :/
Here is one of the (better) trailers; the animation looks top-notch but I'm not sure yet I can get over the ugly designs. I suppose I've just become too used to Gundam (and Macross) designers catering to female aesthetics *sigh*.
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i>I know I sound pedantic but it doesn't really bother me in the books. I mean, not really. Only maybe a little? ^^;; *hides*
I so understand the feeling. But I suppose it's OK to let our inner fangirls triumph over our inner geeks once in a while? ^^;;
Checked out Hunger Games at National Bookstore. They actually have an ongoing contest tied up to the books right now, but I think I've already blown my book budget for the next two months with all the books I've been buying lately. Ditto on the archaeology, not so much on the astronomy (I can't identify any constellations to save my life). They probably just translated the Newberry winners and ALA top picks books into German. I highly doubt that they would have translated the Christpher Pike, R.L. Stine, and L.J. Smith type stories into German. Speaking of German transaltions, I think the German edition (it's listed in amazon.de) of If Angels Fall, the first book in the Darkyn series, is actually coming out this year. Of course, since can read English just fine, would you even bother with the German ed?
Haven't checked out the trailer yet, since my brother's utorrent is hogging all of the bandwidth from the router.
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Actually, I haven't read a novel in German for ages. I don't even know which authors get translated these days and which don't. Also, another reason why I didn't read much YA back then was that usually the German editions of anything new are HC first and then they wait for the whole series to be translated until they publish the first paperback (I think they've yet to publish any of the Harry Potter novels in paperback). And of course I didn't have much money back then. And in the library, every new novel generally had a long waiting list. So I usually rather watched TV and spent much of my money on comics (I still think I have tons of Elfquest GN-like books somewhere ^^;;). The only books I rememeber reading back then which I would (and do, occassionally) re-read in German were the Tortall novels by Tamora Pierce.
Um... don't tell anyone but if you want to read the Hunger Games anyway, go to 4shared.com and insert Hunger Games into the search field. You should get a wide variety of PDFs, LIT and TXT-files. But don't tell anyone (the last thing anyone needs are DMCA guys finding out about this method of getting books the cheapest way) ;) (but I still bought most of my books!)
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Took your, ahem, advise about Hunger Games. Hee. Don't tell anyone though. ^_^
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but frankly, if a reader isn't familiar with hip-hop/rap music and African-American subculture will have a difficult time wading through the chunks of dialog.
That was supposed to be:
but frankly, if a reader isn't familiar with hip-hop/rap music and African-American subculture, he or she will have a difficult time wading through the chunks of dialog.
Oh, and I forgot to comment about the Dark Hunter manga. I don't own a copy, but I was able to browse it in the bookstore, and yeah, the art's decent. They seem to have decided on a PG rating though, since the love scenes weren't even depicted. LOL.
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