This manga makes my head explode.
And omfg Oars. In just a few pages/panels, Oda manages to— Oda is a fucking genius, that’s all I have to say.
ETA: AND TSUBASA. sgdhsfjsdkhfvjfndfv j WRY SO AWESOME
trailer for Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Holy fuck, that was epic. *_* Keith Thompson is amazing, and so are the people who animated it. *_*
I laughed. So hard. The way he set it up. And that sentence. And then that macro. xDDDDD♥
I think…I may begin to stop hating Catcher in the Rye. I mean, it’s not like that-thing-that-shall-not-be-named-in-my-presence; I just didn’t like Catcher in the Rye because I didn’t think it was a good book, lol
For some reason, I couldn’t understand emo-kid Holden’s emoness issues in freshman year of high school, but when discussing the book in class today, I could understand it better. Maybe it’s because I didn’t actually re-read the book? ROFL
Dumbledore is the Mad Hatter.
‘cept not really. |3
In my whole time in Lit for YP class, I have only been lured into talking during our discussions of Alice in Wonderland and Harry Potter (1). I guess my realm really is novels, pffft.
Ugh. The covers changed. =_=
When I saw it on the library shelves, I was liek, “OH HEY A TUI T. SUTHERLAND BOOK. \o/” It wasn’t until I opened the book to read the blurb that I realized it was the third Avatars (NOT to be confused with Avatar:The Last Airbender) book. :|
Having two different styles for one series of book (meaning the style of the covers changed mid-series, not that the series has two sets of covers depending on the version) seems self-defeating, to me. And tbh, I hate the cover art of the third book. I thought the art of the first books was very fitting, because the books deal with ancient gods so the drawn, caricature-ish style, and key-pattern borders fitted the theme nicely. The new “modern” modernist cover is just…ugh. I really hate it, for srs. Not because I hate the whirly abstract stuff floating around a photograph of a blonde girl, but because it seems to me that Sutherland might be trying to “expand” her reader base by making use of stuff that’s popular right now (THINK REALLY HARD ABOUT THAT TITLE) at the book’s expense. I hope her writing hasn’t been affected by this, because if it has…I will just drop the book with no regret and pretend Book 2 ended the series, cliffhanger be damned.
“Adam,” said Phoebe, “you and Jennifer are our fearless leaders. We are with you one hundred percent. If you order us to jump, we will say, ‘How high, sir?’ If you tell us to ‘Charge!’ we’ll hand over our parents’ credit cards. If you say, ‘Duck!’ we’ll quack.” -Adam Canfield of the Slash, Michael Winerip
ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
I only wish I had the wit to come up with stuff like this. x’DDDDDD
READING IS GAY. READING RAINBOW SAYS SO. :D
xDD Sorry, I just saw a flair of a book with a rainbow over it, and the rainbow is the emblem for gay pride, and there used to be (still is?) a TV program called Reading Rainbow…
Er…never mind.
Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe (translated by Alexander O. Smith)
This book. Killed me deaded. ;_;
brb sobbing forever
Samurai by Jason Hightman is like a guilty pleasure: it’s so bad (as in, badly-written, makes-me-want-to-tear-out-my-hair bad), but so good. @_@
Like, the prose is written in such a way that I thought was very, very unpolished, but on the other hand, the author explains that he wanted to write it in a very action-y way. And that is true. The prose is very abrupt and short, and the action scenes fly by. I would have liked a difference in the pose as regards to what prose is storytelling what (like, that abrupt style for the action scenes; a less abrupt, more rounded style for the slower scenes), but eh, that’s just my own preference. The book is still very good; it says something that even though I thought it was so bad I didn’t put it down or throw it at the wall or anything. ._.
