Comments | rachelmanija: Things I have read in or approaching Taiwan (briefly)

rachelmanija

Things I have read in or approaching Taiwan (briefly)

Feb 25, 2007 15:10

Godchild volume 1, demented manga by Kaori Yuki. The first panel is more cracktastic than entire multi-volume runs of some series ( Read more... )

genre: clones, author: pratchett terry, author: crusie jennifer, genre: fowl of doom, manga: godchild/cain saga, manga: empty empire, author: dunnett dorothy, manga: eternal sabbath, body parts: eyeballs

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lydzi February 25 2007, 11:38:05 UTC

I never read Godchild even if one of my favourite shojo is WAngel Sanctuary. The drawings of Kaori Yuki are gorgeous even if not suited for the manga format. Is any good?

I bought my first Pratchett in english but didn't opened it yet. The only thing I read from him is his collaboration with Neil Gaiman.

Always intereting updates! dremiel February 25 2007, 14:28:58 UTC

Niccolo Rising, by Dorothy Dunnett. I only just started this, but it already makes more sense than A Game of Kings.

Yeah Niccolo! God I love him so. I'd love to hear your thoughts as you get farther on in the book and series.

And I agree that ES is very engaging.

lnhammer February 25 2007, 17:32:56 UTC

I liked ES very much up to the final volume. I don't dislike the ending per se, the way many do, but the way it's handled is unexpectedly clunky.

---L.

gweniveeve February 25 2007, 18:57:56 UTC

Godchild is what compelled me to subscribe to Shojo Beat in December 2005. (That was before the first volume was out, it was only running in the magazine, but now it's not). It's crack, but it's the good crack. :)

pameladean February 25 2007, 19:06:32 UTC

You astound me. Niccolo Rising made no sense to me whatsoever until about three volumes later. I didn't care, mind you -- it was Dunnett. But that's really interesting. The Game of Kings made sense by the end. I found the whole style of storytelling in Niccolo miles more opaque.

P.

kate_nepveu February 25 2007, 20:50:06 UTC

Heh. I was just about to post a comment saying "Hey, I remember people telling me that Niccolo was a lot harder"--and you were one of them!

But then again, I don't really have the time to *live* a Dorothy Dunnett series the way I did when I was reading Lymond, back in 1998, and considering what Lymond did to my sleep schedule even then, it's probably a good thing.

movingfinger February 25 2007, 22:24:08 UTC

Someone gave me a Niccolò book years ago, and I simply couldn't force myself into it. The characters' language was too anachronistic (modern American) to permit suspension of disbelief and absorption in the plot.