Reading List

Reading List Update

Rating scale:
5 -- On the top two tiers of my favorites list.
4 -- Very good.
3 -- Good, maybe not my style.
2 -- Not impressive.
1 -- Execrable.

Fairly Recently Read:
* The City and the City (4), China Miéville, on louderandlouder's recommendation. Murder in a city that comprises two overlapping but separate countries.
* Loveless, vol. 8 (4), Yun Kouga: Finally Ritsuka and Seimei meet! Good angst.
* The Child Thief (2.5), Brom: Gritty retelling of Peter Pan is a great concept muffed in the execution (but with pretty pictures).
* The Innkeeper's Song (4.5), Peter S. Beagle: Two former students of an old wizard come together to help him in his time of need.
* "Lal and Soukyan," from Giant Bones (4.5), Peter S. Beagle: The last adventure (or so we're told) of Lal and Soukyan from The Innkeeper's Song. Great characterization.
* Mirage of Blaze 17.20-22 (ratings: 2, 5, and 3.5 respectively): Chiaki researches, Takaya angsts, and Yuzuru and Irobe hang with the Catholics.

( Current and Future Reading )

Blather on Narrative, Archetype, Modes, Friendship, Enneagram

Rambles in which Gungrave and the Iliad are a central examples for thinky thoughts on the nature of narrative, archetype, modal displacement, history, and personality typing.

Now that I've lost all my readers...

Gungrave has made a whole lot more sense to me since I figured out that its theme can be summed up as Achilles and Patroclus if they broke up. Of course, Achilles and Patroclus don't break up. Why? This begs comparison between ancient Greek epic and contemporary seinen anime.

( Enneagram, Wheel o' Modes, Nature of Tragedy, Tori Amos, with Spoilers )