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Post by Yakra on Nov 30, 2008 19:21:09 GMT -5
While I love crisply packaged new games, I really don't mind old used ones too, as long as they are in perfect, unscratched condition. But if its hard to come by now, don't trouble yourself, wyrdwad! I really would not like to be a bother! D: After all! Its available at Play-Asia too!! And I can always just dump the game in later in one of my orders.  And by the way, incase I forgot to say it before, thank you. I really do appreciate that you'll help me get my hands on this book I've been dying for, for so long! XD |
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Post by Kimimi on Nov 30, 2008 20:33:13 GMT -5
I don't mind a used copy at all, as long as it's complete and doesn't look like it's been pulled from the jam-covered hands of an ungrateful child to get traded in  Just whatever is most convenient for you to find, I don't want to cause any trouble. |
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Post by Musa-Revived on Nov 30, 2008 20:41:20 GMT -5
Yakra: How about trying the normal sites like amazon? Are there any major branches of international bookstores in your country? You can try asking them to order books for you I suppose.
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Post by AllenSmithee on Nov 30, 2008 21:32:33 GMT -5
What is the book with the 40 kids or whatever? I'm looking for where it was talked about and can't find it!
I mean the 40 kids who like kill eachother for a pension thing, and stuff?
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Post by Falcom Director of Fanservice on Nov 30, 2008 21:40:20 GMT -5
Battle Royale, by Koushun Takami. Edit: Here's roughly what it looks like. My edition has the figures larger and the design at the top smaller. |
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Post by AllenSmithee on Nov 30, 2008 21:50:13 GMT -5
Ah. Thank you very much! Added to my Christmas list!
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Post by Falcom Director of Fanservice on Dec 1, 2008 0:07:47 GMT -5
The only time the movie is better is when the book is so horrible that they cut it short in the movie (see: Left Behind, anything by Ayn Rand). =[
I cannot imagine a movie even beginning to do justice Koushin Takami's characterization.
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Post by Musa-Revived on Dec 1, 2008 0:36:36 GMT -5
Hmm, the only thing I remembered about the movie was how the cute japanese school girls were actually wearing grandma pants (or some kind of shorts) underneath those oh-so-short school skirts.
Then again they couldn't make girls die gracefully in a movie full of bloody deaths without showing ...stuff
But yeah pretty cool movie.
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Post by Musa-Revived on Dec 1, 2008 3:06:15 GMT -5
I remember that whatever they wore underneath their skirts was white and covered a decent portion of their thighs... definitely not bloomers. I'd never heard of white bloomers. They're usually red or blue... at least that's what Japanese entertainment depict.
And I can't believe I'm talking about women undergarments in a book thread.
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Post by Falcom Director of Fanservice on Dec 1, 2008 5:24:34 GMT -5
Or movies, you sons of bitches. >=|
Also I want to review the Elric Saga, but that would mean I'm obligated to finish them and...man.
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Post by Yakra on Dec 1, 2008 12:22:36 GMT -5
Yakra: How about trying the normal sites like amazon? Are there any major branches of international bookstores in your country? You can try asking them to order books for you I suppose. Amazon's out for me since I don't have a credit card. (Which kind of greatly reduces ALL my online shopping!) If I had one, I'd drive myself to poverty in two minutes! XD As for international bookstores, nope, none. There's this main dealer, Liberty Books, which provides to almost all the bookstores but basically has zero ideas about getting fantasy books. X'D My old book shop guy is better than them! |
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Post by Musa-Revived on Dec 2, 2008 19:34:59 GMT -5
Well, you gotta have to have a credit card sooner or later...
I didn't buy much stuff when I didn't own one, it was only when I got a credit card that it became a lot easier to get stuff I really need. Of course you just have to know your limit.
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Post by MonoTekETeA on Dec 2, 2008 23:19:58 GMT -5
Battle Royale was a good movie. Dunno how it is as a book, though the few people I know who've read it seemed to like it. Avoid the sequel movie, though. Battle Royale 2 was awful. The guy who wrote the original story died, and his son took over for the sequel... and yeah... let's just say he didn't inherit his father's creative ability by any means.  -Tom No, stop right there. Go read the book. The movies were terrible in comparison...just bad. I receive no enjoyment from that movie, it totally butchers the book's amazing story. Captain is right, the book is phenomenal, I picked it up one day when I drove out to the Book store and found no new manga/ones I was interested in figuring what the heck, everyone raves about the movie. Wow, a treat and a half, finished it in a few days. Went and watched the movie, and it made me wish I was in a battle royal of my own, each and everyone of those characters you see in the movie get killed, every single one, has a good back story, that goes along perfectly. If you seen the movie, and want to read the book, go in there not even thinking about the movie, and captivate yourself with a fantastic story. Needless to say Captain, only watch the movie if you feel like seeing how they even attempted to make the story into a live action movie, and then just add it to your list of ass. I am sorry, but the movie is just kids shooting each other, when the story is so much more deep. But I guess that could be said about a lot of things...Jurassic Park is a movie just about killer dinosaurs, when the book is just some much cooler, or so my friends say. I Am Legend in the same boat, but yeah, read the book. As for books, I love them when I get the time for them. The Redwall series is probably one of my tops, followed by the Earthsea series. I enjoyed Dragon Lance a little, but got tired of it. The novelizations of Warcraft were better, since I cared about the characters and the stories more, even though it was what's his name's same old writing style. The Halo Books were good. Magic the Gathering have been enjoyable from what I read. Harry Potter is of course a classic. I've read others, some being Non-Fiction, but I just enjoy fiction...can't help it. |
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Post by Falcom Director of Fanservice on Jan 2, 2009 12:27:47 GMT -5
I might look into one of those once I clear up my plate a bit.
Right now I'm read the first of the Song of Fire and Ice books, and digging on it like a miner.
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Post by AllenSmithee on Mar 7, 2009 21:28:15 GMT -5
Just finished up Watchmen. Impressive, I found! I liked the ending, what with it not being depressing and like Evangelion in any way. Happy I am.
In the end the characters weren't horrible people either, and thinking about it Rorschach only attacks the REAL bad doods and stuff. Awesome things.
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Post by Ashurei on Mar 7, 2009 22:17:30 GMT -5
On that whole Battle Royale debate I missed out on, you'd have to add me to the list of folks who didn't like the movie. The book itself is definitely in my top 3, and when I finally imported the movie, I had SUCH SUCH high hopes for it.... and it ultimately fell ridiculously short of the diamond-encrusted pedestal I had placed it on. In terms of taking the book and giving it a worthy visual perspective, I'd sooner recommend the manga - which I thoroughly enjoyed. Obviously, though, my opinion is heavily skewed since I went in with astronomical expectations; making a 2 hour movie out of a 700-page novel would never go the way a fan of the book would ideally want it to.
Anyways! Only book(s) I have in the works at the moment are the His Dark Materials series. Picked it up cause my overly christian mother one morning pleaded with me not to go see the movie (which I'd never expressed interest in seeing) because it was written by an atheist to spread lies. Dumbfounded, yet intrigued, I picked up the book that day. Pretty good so far, though I haven't read beyond the first book since I got it like a year ago, haha. Sad to say I am a victim of modern society - not an avid reader, though I do devour books when I start them.
Other than that, if we count manga, I'm almost done reading Judas. Anime Jesus is awesome. Anime Peter is freakishly weird.
Also: Rorschach ftmfw.
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Post by Falcom Director of Fanservice on Mar 7, 2009 22:30:13 GMT -5
Lessee... I finished up the first Ice and Fire book; read the 4th and 5th Tremiere book. Read A Brave New World (one should never read that after 1984, I should say), and a lovely book on modern Hinduism.
Right now, I am working on The Annotated Hobbit, which is keen. The Hobbit was one of my first real books, and I am kinda a Tolkein Noid. =]
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Post by AllenSmithee on Mar 7, 2009 22:45:35 GMT -5
In retrospect of finishing it, it makes me feel a little bit... older? In a bad way! Like its making me grow up with mature images!
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Post by Falcom Director of Fanservice on Mar 15, 2009 21:21:34 GMT -5
Oh wow. Someone likes LeGuin and Lackey? I am so sorry for you, you must have had a terrible childhood!
Naw, just kidding. I read Left Hand of Darkness once, and was fairly amused. Never read anyof Lackey's stuff, though. Tells us a bit about them?
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Post by AllenSmithee on Mar 16, 2009 0:17:17 GMT -5
Oh boy! I really want that now, looks great!
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