frannyo 2 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Japanese newspapers! Good luck with that endeavor. Link to post Share on other sites
zwelgen 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Quote: Originally posted by enderzero: Right now I am reading the 3rd in the series, Gaijin Snap! Im reading the same at the moment and Im loving it, cant put it down. Y_P Ive read the Heike as well and it is good but you cant really compare the two, one is a translation of Japanese written by Japanese and the other written by a white dude for us whities. I havent read shogun but am looking forward to reading it and Tai-pan now too. double bonus, I picked up the book for 3 bucks! Pat myself on the back Link to post Share on other sites
enderzero 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Whoa if you are reading Gaijin before Tai-pan you must be kinda confused...well maybe not confused but it should really be read after. Shogun is the best but doesn't relate to the others much at all. Link to post Share on other sites
zwelgen 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Dont worry Enderzero, Im smart Link to post Share on other sites
snobee 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Me too. Herbert Bix: Hirohito and the making of modern Japan. Pretty dense history but very interesting. Don't think I've ever read such a incredibly researched book before. Footnotes run to 96 pages and index 30. That's a book alone. Link to post Share on other sites
HoTRoD 2 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 I'm just about starting on that one. Link to post Share on other sites
1 4 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Do you need to have read Shogun before going on to Gaijin? Link to post Share on other sites
enderzero 0 Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 No but I would definitely read Tai-pan before reading Gaijin. Major plot spoilers. But IMHO Shogun is far superior to Gaijin. Anyone read any of his later books? Link to post Share on other sites
nagoid 4 Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 Perhaps I should get them and give em a go. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 Snobee, That was a pretty good book - I too liked all the research that went into it like you said. A boy called H is good too. If its anything with japanese lit anything by the following authrors would probably be a good read: Murakami Haruki (one of my favs) or Ryo, Miyabe Miyuki, Yoshikawa, Abe, Mishima, Kawabata, Kazuo Ishiguro, Junichi Saga, bla, bla, bla. Has anybody read anything by James Michner (spelling?) like Hawaii or Poland. Wow, those were great books but havent gotten anything else by him here in Japan. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 Boy Called H is excellent. Link to post Share on other sites
nekobi 0 Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 i dont get the big fuss about shogun. i've started it twice now and got about 50 pages in and didnt really care to continue. reading war of don emmanuels netherparts now. v enjoyable. Link to post Share on other sites
LiquidX 0 Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 Netherparts? Now that sounds more interesting than Shogun!! Link to post Share on other sites
kintaro 0 Posted May 14, 2003 Author Share Posted May 14, 2003 On translated Japanese literature: Kenji Miyazawa's "Night of the Milky Way Railway" was entertaining. For a non-drug user Miyazawa's imagination is trippy. Link to post Share on other sites
zwelgen 0 Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 I watched the movie for Japanese at univ and damn was it weird. Typical Japanese stuff that is good but at the end you are left going whaaaaaa? Anyone seen princess mononoke? Kinda like that one Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Zwelgen, Miyazaki Hayo is great!! Mononoke Hime, Raputa, Naoshika, Totoro, and Sen to Chihiro among others, are all great movies and can be very easy to understand if youre learning Japanese. Try something like Totoro! Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 I watched Hotaru no Haka the other day. That's very easy to understand. It starts with the hero saying "On August 31, 1945 I died" (or some such date). Can't get much plainer than that. You know then that it's going to be a reet cheerful story. Link to post Share on other sites
zwelgen 0 Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Not that I couldnt understand it but when I got to the end me and my viewing buddy looked at each other and said "well thats not what I was expecting to happen". Just in mononoke hime how they chop off the head and all that gloopy stuff goes everywhere till they get the head back... just strange. Link to post Share on other sites
Antonio 0 Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Yuki's Passion...regarding Michener, you should try and find "The Drifters". That still rates as one of my all time faves. And on Murakami, i read one of his books, and i know i'm going to stuff up the title here, but i think it was something like "South of the border, west of the sun"?????? To be honest i wasn't all that impressed....found it a bit hollow. I think i recommended Irvine Welsch (sp?)'s Glue in another thread. More of a blokes book but one of those rare books that when you finish you don't feel like reading again for a while lest you spoil the memory. The Shipping News for those of you who liked the movie is also a grwat read. Unfortunately i don't seem to be doing much reading other than textbooks and word cards (how much do you hate them?) at the moment....sob. Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 The most reading I do is THIS FORUM (!) and online news sites (BBC, CNN) Link to post Share on other sites
kintaro 0 Posted May 17, 2003 Author Share Posted May 17, 2003 What is A Boy Called H about? Fiction or non? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted May 17, 2003 Share Posted May 17, 2003 Non fiction. It's about a boy who was living in Kobe during the war, got shunted off to the country, and then came back. His family were doubtful about the war, but he did some military training. It's true, but it reads like a novel. It's very matter-of-fact which is what makes it so good. You might even be able to find an English version in your local library. Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted July 25, 2003 Share Posted July 25, 2003 Daniel Quin 'Ishmael' Augustin Berque 'Le Sauvage Et Lartifice' I finally found those books! This used bookstore is my favorite. I can meet books I'm looking for! Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted July 25, 2003 Share Posted July 25, 2003 Just finished 'Hitler's War' by David Irving (on my PocketPC). Now I need a real, paper book to read. Link to post Share on other sites
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