Lone Wolf and Cub
Aug. 24th, 2013 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schemingreaderAs you know, I try to take books out of the library when anyone recommends anything to me. (I've done this with movies and TV shows you've recommended, as well--The Hour and The Losers over the summer.) Now I'm trying to join in-person book discussion groups. I've been to one so far, and I had in mind to try a second one. In that situation, it's best to borrow the books rather than buy them.
Especially since I didn't like either of the books that the two groups meeting at the same time on Tuesday are reading. I'll probably go to the comic book one, just because the book was shorter and less painful to finish. It's too bad--I want to meet the people in the second group, but I cannot deal with late Philip Roth.
I have finally laid my hands on Code Name: Verity which I know several people on here said was amazing. I haven't started it yet, though.
Right now I'm reading Lone Wolf and Cub. I'm almost finished with the first volume. Anyone around here read manga? I took a lot of Japanese studies courses in college, which is making this really interesting. At some point, the story just completely jumps the shark, and begins to include increasingly ludicrous feats of baby badassery by the infant Daigoro.
I'm not sorry I bought it, though--two volumes in English translation. I am really interested in the fate of the protagonist, and the dark world of the people he works for as an assassin.
Have you read this one?
Especially since I didn't like either of the books that the two groups meeting at the same time on Tuesday are reading. I'll probably go to the comic book one, just because the book was shorter and less painful to finish. It's too bad--I want to meet the people in the second group, but I cannot deal with late Philip Roth.
I have finally laid my hands on Code Name: Verity which I know several people on here said was amazing. I haven't started it yet, though.
Right now I'm reading Lone Wolf and Cub. I'm almost finished with the first volume. Anyone around here read manga? I took a lot of Japanese studies courses in college, which is making this really interesting. At some point, the story just completely jumps the shark, and begins to include increasingly ludicrous feats of baby badassery by the infant Daigoro.
I'm not sorry I bought it, though--two volumes in English translation. I am really interested in the fate of the protagonist, and the dark world of the people he works for as an assassin.
Have you read this one?
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Date: 2013-08-25 02:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-25 02:35 am (UTC)I mean, don't get me wrong, there has to be some kind of narrative explanation for their survival. DEMONS! MAGIC!
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Date: 2013-08-25 02:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-25 08:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-25 11:45 am (UTC)It's funny that it bothers me that the child is written so unrealistically. It's not as though adults ever behave like his father, either!