Currently reading (or last read)?

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

im currently reading Joan of Arc: Her Story by Regine Pernoud and Marie-Veronique Clin. It's a non-fiction about Joan of Arc.

in terms of manga, i want to start Neighborhood Story by Ai Yazawa soon. I only have the first volume right now tho, so that might have to wait. I do have the entirety of Last Quarter by Ai Yazawa, but im not sure about starting that quite right now. ill have to see heheheh x3

 

[Deleted member 563203]

I really haven't read a book in a long time hmm maybe I should again

 

[NeonKnights]

Last read some short stories from "Night Screams" (horror anthology).
Currently reading "Night Shift" by Stephen King. "Graveyard Shift" was the last one I finished.
It was pretty good though I can't help but think the movie was much better.

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

Last read some short stories from "Night Screams" (horror anthology).
Currently reading "Night Shift" by Stephen King. "Graveyard Shift" was the last one I finished.
It was pretty good though I can't help but think the movie was much better.

i really want to read Salem's Lot by Stephen King. ahhhh ive never read it. ive read Pet Semetary, The Shining, and IT, but not Salem's Lot yet WHICH IS ABOUT WITCHESSSSSS

 

[MrPanda61]

Going through it for the third time. Very well written and quite fun.

 

[NeonKnights]

im currently reading Joan of Arc: Her Story by Regine Pernoud and Marie-Veronique Clin. It's a non-fiction about Joan of Arc.

in terms of manga, i want to start Neighborhood Story by Ai Yazawa soon. I only have the first volume right now tho, so that might have to wait. I do have the entirety of Last Quarter by Ai Yazawa, but im not sure about starting that quite right now. ill have to see heheheh x3

Crazy, I never knew Kagen no Tsuki/Last Quarter was by Ai Yazawa. My ex and I used to watch the movie with Chiaki Kuriyama and Hyde every few months. It seemed at the time like it was the closest thing to Moon Child just without Gackt and with cape of storms instead of Orenji no Taiyou. Honestly makes me want to get the danger after dark box set again, 2LDK was pretty good too.
Salem's Lot has been on my list for far too long but I will never read it until I have it in hardcover.
Preferably a near to first edition. Pet Semetery 2 isn't real at all and it never existed right?
Also check out "The Witching Hour" by Anne Rice.

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

Crazy, I never knew Kagen no Tsuki/Last Quarter was by Ai Yazawa. My ex and I used to watch the movie with Chiaki Kuriyama and Hyde every few months. It seemed at the time like it was the closest thing to Moon Child just without Gackt and with cape of storms instead of Orenji no Taiyou. Honestly makes me want to get the danger after dark box set again, 2LDK was pretty good too.

oh my god thats SO insanely silly and cool that HYDE is in the live action movie for Last Quarter. I love his singing voice and L'Arc En Ciel

Salem's Lot has been on my list for far too long but I will never read it until I have it in hardcover.
Preferably a near to first edition. Pet Cemetery 2 isn't real at all and it never existed right?
Also check out "The Witching Hour" by Anne Rice.

I have one of the OG editions of The Stand but have also never really read it beyond the first chapter, i guess i was too scared and i also got it during the middle of the pandemic LOL
also, ill add that book to my list. im having an exceedingly large and growing list of horror novels to read now xD

 

[Antilocal123]

F4F Mommy pampers and praises you sfw novel.

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

F4F Mommy pampers and praises you sfw novel.

H-how do you know what I watch on YouTube late at night?

 

[Zerpina]

I am re-reading American Psycho, and it’s honestly still just as good as I remembered. There’s something about Patrick Bateman’s world that’s so unsettling but also oddly captivating. I love i, t It makes you think about how superficial everything can be and how people hide behind facades.

 

[Cuestionador]

I am re-reading American Psycho, and it’s honestly still just as good as I remembered. There’s something about Patrick Bateman’s world that’s so unsettling but also oddly captivating. I love i, t It makes you think about how superficial everything can be and how people hide behind facades.

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That cover art by Marshall Arisman is simply iconic. I have a spanish edition of the book in my reading pile.

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

i picked up Claudine by Riyoko Ikeda from the library! :D
i also was able to get this manga for 2 bucks from the library store called Afterschool Charisma (Vol 2) by Kumiko Suekane, it looked cool

 

[betterhiroto]

Been reading non-fiction and philosophy lately!

I'm reading Tao Te Ching from Laozi, Thus spoke zarathustra and Twilight of the idols (with ecce homo and antichrist included) from Nietzsche, and the first three books of Hagakure, with some Mumonkan as a side dish lol, and a bit of Camus with the Myth of Sisyphus...
That's all from the philosophy side...

On the non-fiction side i've been reading Bury my heart at Wounded knee, Legends about the Samurai and the Kojiki (I guess this falls a bit into the non-fiction side too but whatever..)

The fiction i'm reading is God Emperor of Dune, Starship troopers, Neuromancer and The tale of Genji (Need to get a more complete version of it :'( )

 

[Spyrone]

Hmm... last thing I finished was probably Stephen King's The Running Man. It's way better than the movie (don't get me wrong, the movie's great, but it has barely anything to do with the book) and it beat out Neuromancer for being the first cyberpunk novel by two years. It has digital currency, apocalyptic climate change, an oppressive government that works hand in hand with sinister megacorporations in crushing people's spirit, brutal civil strife, etc, etc. All the tropes that are essential to cyberpunk (no it has no internet equivelent, but neither do Blade Runner, Akira, Burst City, Children of Men or a host of other works I could mention) two years before Neuromancer codified it.

Currently reading a combo of Sandra Newman's Julia and David Moody's Choke Hold. I'm almost finished with the latter, it's the sixth entry in David Moody's Final War series, an excellent deconstruction of the zombie genre, and it's just as bleak as Them Or Us, it's counterpart novel. In fact, Choke Hold and Them Or Us are almost as bleak as Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which is hard to beat in terms of depressing apocalyptic bleakness. Think 28 Days Later meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers, with a pandemic of mass murderers instead of zombies or alien bodysnatchers and you've got the basic plot of David Moody's Final War series.

Julia is also really good. It's the officially sanctioned sequel to Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four. I'm only about a third of the way through it but I'm really liking it thus far. It's already confirmed a lot of my headcanon for Orwell's classic dystopia, like how the Thought Police are more well-armed than any of the Minipax military forces.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I am re-reading American Psycho, and it’s honestly still just as good as I remembered. There’s something about Patrick Bateman’s world that’s so unsettling but also oddly captivating. I love i, t It makes you think about how superficial everything can be and how people hide behind facades.

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I liked the movie but I wanna see how hard the book could go.

As for me I'm reading Ecotopia from Callenbach. Despite being from the 70's it's still quite modern in its themes:

Maybe it's too soon to tell but in term of feelings it's more or less an "Anti-1984".

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

im currently reading Last Quarter by Yazawa Ai. i think ill finish it later today

 

[dropsmegamega]

me lo recomienda voy a empezar a leerlo suena interesante.

I found it a bit too preachy, which isn’t surprising given it was written by a priest of that time, but often the moralism ends up limiting the narrative. And despite I found it engaging, it also tends to drag, often feeling like it never quite goes anywhere, yet it’s still an interesting forgotten classic and portrait of its era, so I can’t say I regret reading it.

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

I just finished reading Last Quarter by Yazawa Ai.
What a beautiful manga. I'm in love.

Yazawa Ai tier list so far (most to "least" enjoyment):
NANA
Last Quarter
Paradise Kiss

Next up on my reading list for Yazawa Sensei is Neighborhood Story, but that's for later.
I'm going to start Princess Knight by Tezuka Osamu next probably. Or maybe wait till my copy of Emily the Strange: All Things Strange comes in the mail next week!

 

[Cuestionador]

Yesterday i begin to read this book, The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata. It's very delicate (and haunting) read, i'm enjoying it. The game of Go is a sort of narrative device to tell a lot of things about the japanese society of his time.

 

[tryrushdeppy3]

I am currently reading this book about the localization of Mother 2/Earthbound:

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

:3c

 

[Theriise]

Yes... I am reading one book at a time. And not multiple at all.
Okay I 'fess up, here are all the books I have a bookmark in atm:
-franz kafka the trial
-hunter s thompson hells angels
-haruki murakami kafka on the shore
- helen fielding bridget jones diary the edge of reasoh
- terry pratchett dragons of crumbling castle
-keigo higashino the miracles of namiya general store.
I read books depending on my mood and when I get tired of reading one, I continue another. I am really broad with genres, tbh I just wanna curl up and
Also how is your book going? What is it about?

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

Yes... I am reading one book at a time. And not multiple at all.
Okay I 'fess up, here are all the books I have a bookmark in atm:
-franz kafka the trial
-hunter s thompson hells angels
-haruki murakami kafka on the shore
- helen fielding bridget jones diary the edge of reasoh
- terry pratchett dragons of crumbling castle
-keigo higashino the miracles of namiya general store.
I read books depending on my mood and when I get tired of reading one, I continue another. I am really broad with genres, tbh I just wanna curl up and
Also how is your book going? What is it about?

silly autistic girl goes on strange adventures

 

[JackNoir413]

im reading a book about the SMS Emden by Hellmut Von Mucke about his experiences on board during the first months of the great war. its very interesting and showcases the way the crew dealt with civilian ships and prisoners of war. the third part of the book is about a group of 50 men led by Mucke during a land mission and how they got spared from their fight against the SMS Sydney and managed to get back to germany to keep fighting.

 

[Theriise]

silly autistic girl goes on strange adventures

Maybe, maybe not. One day I'll see a headshrinker about it.

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I just finished reading Last Quarter by Yazawa Ai.
What a beautiful manga. I'm in love.

Yazawa Ai tier list so far (most to "least" enjoyment):
NANA
Last Quarter
Paradise Kiss

Next up on my reading list for Yazawa Sensei is Neighborhood Story, but that's for later.
I'm going to start Princess Knight by Tezuka Osamu next probably. Or maybe wait till my copy of Emily the Strange: All Things Strange comes in the mail next week!

Yay more Emily the Strange love!
I hope you enjoy it, have you read the chapter books too? It's by the same author of the comics. The author just about applied to get as many rights as he could to write Emily's stories from the franchise.