I read books
Finished stuff: Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance, Murakami - Kafka on the Shore, This One-Shot Justice League thing.
Dance Dance Dance was really great, if only because it was written in the 80's and I really dug all the (few) references to Bowie and The Police. And Pac-Man. I didn't like Kafka on the Shore as much as Akiko (and it seems, everyone else who read it) did. Justice League was kind of neat, if only for the hilariously accurate characiature of a vehemently anti-Justice League Bill O'Reilly.
Currently: Hiroaki Sato - Legends of the Samurai, Sato - The Sword and the Mind, Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan, Tolkein - The Two Towers.
Legends of the Samurai is pretty cool, but I'm just incredibly tempted to skip all of the Heian and Ashikaga stories and jump right to the legends about Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. And maybe Date Masamune. The Sword and the Mind is a treatise on swordsmanship, which is much duller than it sounds. Though now I know the basic principle of cutting all into someone's wheelhouse. I'm very seriously considering just skipping ahead to Takuan's work, which is translated near the end of the book. The Sirens of Titan is funny, but I just haven't picked it up in over a month. Tolkein is, as I said before, seemingly obligatory, but I'm not as vehemenently opposed to reading it as I make it out to be. I like it alright, I just feel obligated to read it from unknown forces.
Future: I don't own anything I haven't read, (other than Return of the King) so I'll have to go out and pick up The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori. He's the statue of a really fat guy with a dog in Ueno Park. Maybe also Sandman book 2, if I could ever find it. More Haruki Murakami, probably, and I may even delve into Ryu Murakami. Gasp. I also really want to read Flatland for some reason. And definitely more Philip K. Dick.
Dance Dance Dance was really great, if only because it was written in the 80's and I really dug all the (few) references to Bowie and The Police. And Pac-Man. I didn't like Kafka on the Shore as much as Akiko (and it seems, everyone else who read it) did. Justice League was kind of neat, if only for the hilariously accurate characiature of a vehemently anti-Justice League Bill O'Reilly.
Currently: Hiroaki Sato - Legends of the Samurai, Sato - The Sword and the Mind, Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan, Tolkein - The Two Towers.
Legends of the Samurai is pretty cool, but I'm just incredibly tempted to skip all of the Heian and Ashikaga stories and jump right to the legends about Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. And maybe Date Masamune. The Sword and the Mind is a treatise on swordsmanship, which is much duller than it sounds. Though now I know the basic principle of cutting all into someone's wheelhouse. I'm very seriously considering just skipping ahead to Takuan's work, which is translated near the end of the book. The Sirens of Titan is funny, but I just haven't picked it up in over a month. Tolkein is, as I said before, seemingly obligatory, but I'm not as vehemenently opposed to reading it as I make it out to be. I like it alright, I just feel obligated to read it from unknown forces.
Future: I don't own anything I haven't read, (other than Return of the King) so I'll have to go out and pick up The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori. He's the statue of a really fat guy with a dog in Ueno Park. Maybe also Sandman book 2, if I could ever find it. More Haruki Murakami, probably, and I may even delve into Ryu Murakami. Gasp. I also really want to read Flatland for some reason. And definitely more Philip K. Dick.