A fitting end to one of the greatest manga series created
+ The Conclusion To An Amazing Series + WILL YOU DIE OR PLAY THE GAME?
I admit that when I finished Battle Royale volume 15 I couldn't help but feeling a bit dissapointed with it. There was nothing wrong with the writing or the art, it was just missing that thing that makes a series finale be truly great.
Picking up where volume 14 left off it shows Shuuya, Kawada ...
This book is another volume in that excellent undertaking by Canongate to have ancient myths retold in a contemporary re-imagining. (See my Amazon reviews of Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad and Jeanette Winterson's Weight.) Here we have Tiresias, the blind seer of Greek Antiquity, paying several ...
A long book, written in several autobiographical sections narrating the action from contradictory points of view. It's an innovative and engaging structure.
For me, this novel had three distinct parts.
(1) commentary on Japanese treatment of women as students and professionals, with a focus ...
+ "The quality that we call beauty ... must always grow from the realities of life." + Had Japan developed its own science in harmony withDDD
The Japanese have an aesthetic concept called "Wabi Sabi." This term consists of two words. "Wabi" literally means "poverty," but in the aesthetic context it stands for simplicity; "Sabi" is literally "solitude, loneliness," and for aesthetic purposes it means something like natural impermanence. ...
"Danse Macabre" should have been subtitled "Horror Fiction in Cinema, TV, and Books: 1950 - 1979" so that Stephen King's fiction fans wouldn't accidentally pick it up and start reading it. They might be horribly disappointed.
At what is supposed to be the climax of this nonfiction book, at the ...
+ Usual mystery, different locale + Enjoyable, absorbing mystery novel
I read a lot of detective fiction, but usually not contemporary thrillers because they tend to be far too gory for my taste. I bought this on the recommendation of a friend, and found it thoroughly enjoyable. The central mystery is tightly plotted, and the characters are well observed.
I ...
The fact that the mystery disappears after the second chapter in no way detracts from the joy of this book. From widowed boarding house attendants to freeloading artists to a detective that might as well be the anti-Sherlock Holmes, this is one of the funniest and meanest books to come out of the ...
Apparently catty girls fighting over a popular guy knows neither the boundaries of time nor place nor social status. "Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale" could just as easily be a hot new teen film, starring Lindsay Lohan as the naive new girl being manipulated and preyed upon by the more cynical seniors. ...
+ Family Life in late 1930's Japan + Every Family Has Their Ups and Downs
This book is an immediate pleasure to read from the moment a bretrothal is attempted to be found for Yukiko through to the last page.
Set just before World War Two, the Makioka family is of an old and fast fading aristocratic line. The world is rapidly changing around them, yet they continue to ...
The Devil's Whisper is one of the earliest published works of Miyabe's, and arguably her first popular hit in Japan. In many ways this is a fairly representative work of hers--it has the classic Miyabe formula of a scattered collection of mysterious clues faithfully collected, assembled, and ...
This is an exciting, wild, face-paced ride with non-stop suspense, jolts and shocks.
This resort is a place you don't want to visit, but a nightmare you'd love to unravel.
--Joseph McGee, author of In the Wake of the Night, Phil's Place and Darkness Won't Rest: Phils Place II
I've always thought Samson one of the least likable heroes in the bible: an infantile bully, a selfish, stupid child in the body of a giant.
Grossman shows a Samson who is much more than that. Yes, he is selfish and violent, but also hurt, lonely, and always yearning for love.
This book contains ...
I picked up "Good Witch of the West" because of the pretty artwork, but I've really gotten into it.
The story starts off pretty typical. A country girl named Firiel Dee goes to the royal ball and catches the attention of the prince. Then the "shocking" discovery is made that she is the daughter ...
In this insightful work, Rabbi Herczeg, a noted Rashi scholar and translator of the Sapirstein Edition Rashi, examines many aspects of Rashi's commentary. He shows how the patterns in Rashi help us understand the magnificent precision and clarity of Rashi's explanation. Drawing upon the classic commentators, the insights of Rav Tzadok HaKohen, and, of course, the words of Rashi himself, this book ...
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