キッチン・吉本ばなな

My first book.  Almost finished!

The manga, Deadman Wonderland.

After I finish that, I might go back to the second book of the 魔女館へようこそ series, or I might start the キノの旅 series.

I'm reading フラグメント超進化生物の島


It was recommended by Hideo Kojima in his podcast

I like to play to the visual novels (PSP or computer), it's like books but with sound and background.

I am currently reading Clannad.

which I have been reading on and off for ages.

and



which I just started yesterday but seems relatively easy to read.

I am reading seven manga series and one light novel right now, but a special mention will go to the series that I haven't previously read in English:





The other series are よつばと!、けいおん!、コードギアス　反逆のルルーシュ、らき☆すた and あずまんが大王 and the novel is 涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱. Like Asriel, I've also been reading it on and off for several months now. I don't think that it was a good choice for one's first light novel - the dialogues are okay, but the only reason I can understand much of Kyon's narration and Nagato's monologues is the fact that I have read the novel in English and watched the series three times (En-dub, En-sub, J-sub).

I'm reading a forum nowadays in hungarian, about how to commit....well you know the rest I'm getting some ideas, plus 2 weeks ago, 2 girls did it in a car, with chemicals.... the idea comes from Japan, so there is the connection

I am reading "What you reading?"
http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?id=471&p=1

I like it... It's interesting with the atmosphere of the book. also it's got some literary value.  It would be like 3.5/5 for me or maybe 4/5.

I have a thing against book that is made up of a collection of short stories since they tend to be not that good. like it's either only 1 story is worth reading, only a couple, or they're all medoicre.

Luckily I broke this preconception with a honda takayoshi? 本多 孝好 because all the short stories in his book were interesting and I loved the atmosphere and the way he writes in general. mono no tawomure is a collection of short stories but it's not really stories which is what makes it good? hard to explain.

My only beef is that the sentences are really long like 3-4 lines. I sorta like the long sentences because of the advantage of long sentences but then at the same time I have to pay attention that much more because it's so long. But seriusly this book has some of the longest sentences I've seen and I've read like 20/30 books so far in JApanese.

I have this thing with reading amazon reviews after I finish reading the book (though I also check if the stars are really low or high to check if it's worth reading/finish reading.. etc)

so i'm just going to copy paste parts of reviewsh from amazon  that I agree with.

　松浦寿輝の小説はまさに「喫茶・並木」のような味わいである。“ふと人の気配の途絶えた他人の家にするりと入りこみ、束の間の居候のようにして仮の時間を過ごすといった奇妙な快楽”。
　紹介した「並木」のほかにも、“無関係”の関係の居心地のよさ、仮の時間を過ごす快楽を、束の間味わえる魅惑的な短編が詰まっている。夢と現にことさら境界線を引きたがるような人にはまったく向いていない小説ではあるけれど。

一文、一文にこめられた意味と無意味。
読んでいて苦にもならず、頭を重たくすることもなく、
ただただ、読者の胃腸にずんずん入り込んでくるような
文体。
正直、これほどの美文家は、夏目漱石以来だと思っている。
（あまり賛同者は多くはないだろうが）

活字だけを追って、読んでいる自分自身の精神がうねり、
動き出す作品は、そうそう多くない。

oh and I didn't know they sold toki wo kakeru shoujo separately since it's just a short story... like short but it does say it's $2. but anyways when i read o kakeru shoujo when it was in a collection of short stories thing and it was the only story worth reading... the rest were just eh..

Last edited by howtwosavealif3 (2011 July 16, 8:51 am)

Things I'm currently halfway through:
日本語の奇跡 : ; 永遠の森 : ; 陰翳礼讃 :

(Pop-sci history of the Japanese writing system, which started off easy and has got a little harder in the chapters dealing with the Buddhist history and influence; a Seiun-award winning bit of SF which I can't quite decide whether I like; and a book of essays by Tanizaki which I've found a very difficult but rewarding read.)

Also, might be reading this one, just 'cause i like the title 「くたばれ、ジャップ野郎！」