Thanks Cho. It makes sense- I get my Manga through Son+, and at 15 it's what he likes.

Now I have a few to go get for me

Black Wing, so far I've gotten them all at my local Barnes & Noble

Yeah, B&N, Borders - all those places have big manga sections. I get them at our local comic shop too - they have a better selection of some series (Vagabond is a great historical series, BTW, with artwork that's more like illustrations than like cartoons ... the comic shop tends to have more of it than the mainsteam stores do).

BeeZee, if it's for you, and you like a little character angst with your adventures, Saiyuki is the way to go. I've discovered more female SF&F fans to be passionate about Saiyuki than almost any other series. It's a retelling of the Chinese classic tale Journey to the West. There's a good summary here ... you can ignore the bit about Hakkai and Gojyo's "hot love" if you want - nothing like that actually occurs in the storyline, but it's all set up so that it's extremely easy to assume that if that makes you happy ... .

i'm pretty sure i can guess what the problem with death note book 7 was. it was a bit of a leap! still, didn't stop me reading, got 11 and 12 sitting for me to sit down.

i don't read a lot of manga, so i don't all the categories, but i have read and enjoyed a few series:
uzumaki
black and white
remote
dragonhead
kurosagi corpse delivery service
genshiken
mpd: multiple personality disorder

probably assorted other bits and pieces, but those are the obvious ones.

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I'm reading Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.

Enjoying it? You better be!

You should read his Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World too if you haven't. And After the Quake. Murakami is my best author discovery since Gaiman.

I am! The book reminds me a tiny little bit of "American Gods", actually. A little something about it I can't quite pinpoint.

I haven't read any of those, no. Before this, I only read Norwegian Wood, which I loved, and Sputnik Sweetheart, which I had mixed feelings about. People keep telling me to get The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle next, but I'll add those to The List too. Thanks for the recommendations.

I'm only a wee bit into Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. I know about his books from several people babbling about him, but for some reason this one caught my eye at the library.

As I said, I'm only about 50-ish pages into it, but it's delightful so far. I have a serious distraction going on right now though, so I don't know when I'll get back to it.

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Originally posted by Maeve:
I'm only a wee bit into Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. I know about his books from several people babbling about him, but for some reason this one caught my eye at the library.

Ooh..I really liked that one. Of course, I just generally like China Mieville, so I'm a bit biased.

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Originally posted by Black Wings:

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I'm reading Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.

Enjoying it? You better be!

You should read his Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World too if you haven't. And After the Quake. Murakami is my best author discovery since Gaiman.

I am! The book reminds me a tiny little bit of "American Gods", actually. A little something about it I can't quite pinpoint.

I haven't read any of those, no. Before this, I only read Norwegian Wood, which I loved, and Sputnik Sweetheart, which I had mixed feelings about. People keep telling me to get The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle next, but I'll add those to The List too. Thanks for the recommendations.

I hadn't thought of comparing it to American Gods, but you're right. Maybe it's all the traveling? And like most of Murakami's books, it's very much about Japan rather than just set there, like American Gods is in some ways about America.

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Originally posted by Maeve:
I'm only a wee bit into Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. I know about his books from several people babbling about him, but for some reason this one caught my eye at the library.

As I said, I'm only about 50-ish pages into it, but it's delightful so far. I have a serious distraction going on right now though, so I don't know when I'll get back to it.

It gets better.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Jack Womack, Let's Put the Future Behind Us and plowing through various cognitive computing papers.

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Originally posted by Black Wings:
I hadn't thought of comparing it to American Gods, but you're right. Maybe it's all the traveling? And like most of Murakami's books, it's very much about Japan rather than just set there, like American Gods is in some ways about America.

Good points!

Also, the use of Johnny Walker and Colonel Sanders reminded me of the whole thing with I love Lucy in AG. And there's a little something about the mood of both books that seems a bit similar to me.

Dorothy Gale: Journey to Oz by Shane Kirshenblatt - Books One and Two

I loved the Colonel Sanders bit.

almost done with Un Lun Dun and I adore this book! How does it compare to China Mielville's other books though - I read the blurb on the back that said he wrote this with a younger audience in mind. (sorry if I mispelled his name, I can never remember it properly)

Finished A Hatfull of Sky for Devlin last night and now he wants Harry Potter.

Oh, I loved Un Lun Dun, Maeve. I'm going to read Perdido Street Station as soon as The Boyâ„¢ is done with it.

I just finished The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break (on recommendations here,) which I really liked. Bittersweet is a really good work to describe it.
I've started The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. Very good so far.

I'm still slowly making my way through the Dark is Rising sequence - just about half-way through The Grey King now. But I think the last one is the longest, so I'll wait with planning what I'll read next. Although I love planning my reading.

Maeve, the rest of Mieville's books is much, much darker, mostly Perdido Street Station. It's very good, but it's a very different atmosphere.

I figured it would be different, but I'm gonna try the other books you recommended. I like dark.

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Stephen King's another guy who likes to reference himself. Almost half of all his books features a writer, or a graphic novelist as the main character and I reckon all of them are him, on some levels.

I've also noticed that(at least in the ones that I've read) the writer tends to be slightly crazy.

Yeah, or neurotic about writing. I think King is definitely that.