The combined effects of haze, unhealthy anime and general despondency

[kazul_ron]

Okay. Thank goodness promos are over. The haze is killing me and I need something to counteract the influence of trashy (but oh so addictive!) anime that I have been overdosing myself on. Manga is starting to hurt my brain because it's turning into a major source of art angst for me

Comments

[zansetsu]

Second The Secret Country trilogy. I never read it though the whole Cassandra Claire incident sort of serves as free publicity for this book. So. If you're getting the book (which I pray that you do), I'm going to leech off you.

Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs is still a nice book imo. Non-fiction. I like his tone. And the quirky stuff at the end of each chapters. If you're not reading it for the content (which is basically a social commentary of sorts on America culture), you should read it for the quirkiness.

I think I haven't rec you Haruki Murakami yet. Prolong exposure to him makes me want to kill him. But I did like The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles even though the process of plowing through the book was almost unbearable. I adore South of the Border, West of the Sun though. You must must must read it. It's pretty and it's readable (as in, honest). Plus, the guy owns a pub in the book. What's not to love?

I'm starting to miss my copy of Love in The Time of Cholera. (I want it. *wails a little*)

I don't read enough I'm afraid. I don't remember the books that I should be reading or the books that I've read. On the list of books-to-be-read, I have Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake. It sounded like a pretty book. With substance of course. So I recommend that you get it. (I can dump you my entire to-be-read list if you want. There's only like three or four books on it. You were there when Xi An freaked out and declare that we so do not have the same reading taste.)

[gooday]

You are so NOT reading Murakami right now because I'm reading Murakami right now. [He gives me a headache. I don't know why I bother.] Ron! I do not have the same tastes as YYD!

Um. You've got mostly non-trashy stuff so far. So I'll rec the trashy-ish but fun stuff. Try Jeo Keenan. He does snarky gay fiction, and the characters are a bit flouncy. I think you'd enjoy it.

And a children's series I've been eyeing: Cirque Du Freak ala Darren Shan Trilogy. Getting very popular. I've read only the 1st book. But well, vampires, freaks, childhood friends turned evil. Kinda cute, really.

I want the Battle Royale novel and Thud! and Susan Clarke books badly. My reading list is so long it saddens me.

[zansetsu]

Er... Susan Clarke's books? I thought it was just one. *wibbles* I want the rest.

[thewayupward]

What Cassandra Claire incident??? Over the Secret Country trilogy? For reals? LINK PLS

[zansetsu]

http://www.journalfen.net/community/bad_penny/8985.html

It's a long long story.