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Twilightners
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books
The more observant of you might have noticed that Twilightners has been showing up on my side bar as one of the books I’m currently reading for a while now. Well, the short version is I’ve already read it once but will need to read it again to review it. The long version is I […]
Tags: Books, Japan, reading, Reviews, Travel
Review: Anime Explosion!
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books
Well, I finished reading Patrick Drazen’s Anime Explosion! The What? Why? & Wow! of Japanese Animation over the weekend. It’s not a bad read but it’s also something that I never would have read on my own1. Mostly because I think I can grasp enough of the culture concepts presented in the Anime I watch […]
Tags: anime, culture, Japan, reading, Reviews, weekend
Ahhh, now that was a weekend!
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Life
We’re just returning to work after a 3 day week (hope everybody enjoyed their Memorial day) and it was sooo nice not to have to get up & come to work yesterday. Alas, I’ve to find anybody to sponsor me to live without working; so I’m back to work today. :p Not too much to […]
Tags: anime, annoyed, Quiz, reading, Reviews, series, shopping, weekend, writing
Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books
I finished reading Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic quite a while back but just didn’t feel motivated to write a review about it. Don’t get me wrong; I think Terry Jones did a wonderful job and I did enjoy it a lot (4.5 out of 5 points). I just didn’t feel like writing another review, so […]
Tags: reading, Reviews, series, writing
More Books
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books
I finished reading I, Robot and while I enjoyed some of the stories; as a whole the book just didn’t work for me as well as some of Asimov’s other has. He tried hanging the stories together as though it was Dr. Calvin telling them to a journalist but the stories weren’t actually told from […]
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