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SoleMan wrote:Every since I got back from Japan, been blasting through various books about the land of the rising sun. I've read Memoirs of a Geisha, Tokyo Vice, and Shogun. (I actually read that while I was over there) Anyway, I'm currently on The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader. It's a little slow to start, but it seems to be picking up. Has anyone else read this? Is it worth finishing?
The Ninja is one of the few books to defeat me, and I'm a martial arts nut. The extended flashbacks are importante for exposition reasons, but just kill the pace of the book. But then, around halfway through the book, you get the drug-assisted pedastry chapter (set in a Chinese-run brothel--no stereotypes there!!!) and I decided that the rest of the journey wasn't worth it. Lustbader would've been better off making a smutty romance about a guy raised in Japan having a torrid affair with one of his students, with him beating up her father's men being one of the subplots to break up the sex scenes.

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found a site full of HP Lovecraft's work. i have read a bunch of them, but i like The Alchemist the most. didn't really see the appeal behind The Call of Cthulhu
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three wrote:found a site full of HP Lovecraft's work. i have read a bunch of them, but i like The Alchemist the most. didn't really see the appeal behind The Call of Cthulhu
I was doing a chronological Lovecraft review series for awhile, but stopped having the time. Here's my entry on The Alchemist:

http://www.theblood-shed.com/lovecraft- ... alchemist/
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eabaker wrote:
three wrote:found a site full of HP Lovecraft's work. i have read a bunch of them, but i like The Alchemist the most. didn't really see the appeal behind The Call of Cthulhu
I was doing a chronological Lovecraft review series for awhile, but stopped having the time. Here's my entry on The Alchemist:

http://www.theblood-shed.com/lovecraft- ... alchemist/
i found the "surprise" ending surprising. lol this also happened to be the very first lovecraft tale i ever laid eyes on, and i enjoyed the imagery. black vines and hills and castles; i dig the sherlock comparison as well. (though, unlike sherlock, the mystery in lovecraft is the magic, and in any doyle tale it's the method).
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Well I just finshed reading the +1200 paged The Rise and Fall of the Third Riech By William Shirer.

It's a great book, but I think the next book will be a bit more positive. :lol:
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Finished reading Jaws, now reading Jaws 2.
Kind of confusing since Jaws 2 is a sequel to the movie, not the book.

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Reading The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds.

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H-Man wrote:
SoleMan wrote:Every since I got back from Japan, been blasting through various books about the land of the rising sun. I've read Memoirs of a Geisha, Tokyo Vice, and Shogun. (I actually read that while I was over there) Anyway, I'm currently on The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader. It's a little slow to start, but it seems to be picking up. Has anyone else read this? Is it worth finishing?
The Ninja is one of the few books to defeat me, and I'm a martial arts nut. The extended flashbacks are importante for exposition reasons, but just kill the pace of the book. But then, around halfway through the book, you get the drug-assisted pedastry chapter (set in a Chinese-run brothel--no stereotypes there!!!) and I decided that the rest of the journey wasn't worth it. Lustbader would've been better off making a smutty romance about a guy raised in Japan having a torrid affair with one of his students, with him beating up her father's men being one of the subplots to break up the sex scenes.
Update: Yeah, I couldn't get more than 100 pages into Ninja. Then I went and read the plot on Wikipedia and...it sucked. I mean, I'm okay with silly, cheesy gimmicky plots like that...if they're a reasonable length. At 450 pages, (With tiny-ass print) they can keep their damned lame-ass Ninjas. There aren't even, like, real Ninjas in the book!

I did read a few books by Japanese authors, mostly non-fiction: Geisha, a life by Iwasaki Mineko (The real story that Memoirs of a geisha was based on, much better than the fiction) and Musashi Miyamoto's The Book of the Five Rings. I currenty have two more on the list: Michael Crichton's Red Sun, and a massive-ass biography of Hirohito. I'll start on that when I manage to finish the Rise and Fall of the third Reich (Which won't be any time soon)
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Just about finished with the last book in the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series. A very, VERY entertaining series overall.
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I am currently reading about three books, the main one being Merlin: The Lost Years by T. A. Barron. I have been enjoying it so far. I still have lots on my to-read list though.

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Cell by Stephen King. Pretty interesting so far.

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Lunescent wrote:I am currently reading about three books, the main one being Merlin: The Lost Years by T. A. Barron. I have been enjoying it so far. I still have lots on my to-read list though.

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I'm probably going to re-read another book in that Merlin series sometime soon. I considered starting it the other day, but passed it over in favor of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight. I read it once as a kid, didn't care for it, and had long since forgotten everything about it. I'm liking it a lot more this time around, though, as of about halfway through. May have to look into finally reading the rest of the series.
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*SPOILER ALERT*

'Star Wars: Aftermath' by Chuck Wendig

A decent read, but I don't particularly care for Mr. Wendig's writing style. Now, what was taken away, & can be applied to STAR WARS EPISODE VII:

The Empire did not fall by chance, it fell by DESIGN. A high-placed intel source in the Empire, known to Mon Mothma, Ackbar, Madine, & a few others, going by 'The Operator', fed reliable info to the Rebel Alliance, which was instrumental in the Empire's downfall. 'The Operator' was a ranking Fleet Admiral( the future Supreme Commander Snoke, perhaps? ), who had become disenchanted with what the Empire had become. 'a crude, inelegant machine', 'inefficient' - his words, from the novel. He felt that it was time that the Empire be broken down, split up, & reformed, as 'something new'. As this is from a NEW book, this is canon, in the SW Universe. Interesting, eh?

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No. No it's not.

I've been blasting through some autobiographies of gangsters. I read Wiseguy, the book on which Goodfellas was based last weekend, and I'm just finishing up Donnie Brasco.
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Now reading: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Last read: Star Wars Trilogy: The Empire Strikes Back by Ryder Windham
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