No.19522
Would anyone be interested in having a little bookclub here?
Simply review the last thing you read. Books, VN, Manga, wikipedia articles, anything goes.
The only thing I'd like you to not review is this post
No.19525
I just read the wiki article on drifting.
5/10 I didn't understood shit, but it had some rad pics.
No.19537
I'm reading Practical Electronics for Inventors and it's ok. It's hard to grasp the concepts without actually trying it out on the breadboard so imma order some parts
No.19542
>>19525
I just read this anons post, it was pretty interesting.
He gave a fair rating to the article "Drifting", which I reviewed myself afterwards and it is pretty average.
I also like that he admits his personal flaws, very brave of him.
I agree with how he said the pictures are the best part of the article, yet he forgot to mention that there is also a video featured there.
Overall rating 6.3/10, would probably not re-read.
No.19584
I have started Overlord after the anime to it ended. So far, its a pretty fun read. Although I have to say, that the characterization is pretty slow. I am not far enough into it to judge whether the LN is better than the Anime, because the things described in the first chapter are identical to the first half of the first episode.
No.19607
No.19611
I read the Koran. It was pretty meh, I don't get all the hype. 6/10.
No.19621
>>19611
What was your favourite part?
No.19623
>>19611
I just realized something.
Most people who believe in a religion never even read the scriptures.
Does that make them filthy secondaries who only joined the fandom for the hype?
No.19625
>>19623
Well the proper term we use is protestant
No.19645
I'd like to review the chat in the last game I played.
It's rude, racist and very not nice
No.19655
i just finished reading SICP. interesting themes and eloquently written but lacking some much needed character development.
No.19738
I borrowed a Warhammer 40k book from the library but it's boring and it turned out to be some shitty fanfiction.
I'll return it tomorrow and see if I can find a book about german folkslore
No.19742
>>19738
doubling up on the bad fanfiction i see
No.19764
>>19757
why are you trying to upset me?
No.19766
>>19742
Yup, but at least this one will be about cool monsters who kidnap children instead of burly men shooting stuff on a iceplanet
No.19773
>>19757
I want a dragon girlfriend like Charen.
No.19789
>>19757
Good story, shitty board.
Are you from that board, dude? I hope not.
No.19898
>>19773
Karin is the best dragon and I bet her ass tastes like cotton candy
>>19522
Overlord is really fun. I thought the anime was kind of dumb, but it glosses over a lot of the finer details of the light novels and omits a bunch of tiny details that foreshadow future story arcs and surprises. I need to track down the drama CDs so I can find out what happened in them.
Also I finally caught up with ShIndex after the boss rush. I know it is just a filler story and set up to a new arc, but honestly it isn't as fun as the Odin arc. High Priest was amusing but it got kind of boring when the last book was just Touma doing tricks on his bike. The only redeeming part was Misaka finally being told how useless she is, maybe now she will step aside and let her little sisters and Will-tan take their proper place as FeMC.
No.19906
>>19522
I wish i had time to read books other than the ones i read for my classes
No.20234
>>19906
I wish I had motivation to read books. I used to when I was younger.
No.20438
>>20234
Maybe you could try going to a public library.
They have such a calm and quiet atmosphere that really motivates me to browse around and read random books.
And even if you meet strangers they are not going to talk to you, because they are there for the same reason as you. To quietly read books
No.20452
the last time i went to a library, i couldnt relax and focus on reading because i was so worried about moving around, making sound and disturbing the other people
No.20505
Currently reading Remembering the Kanji 1. Its a lifesaver for me since mnemonics helps me remember a great deal.
No.20614
Listening to Superintelligence audio book. Neat, but seems unlikely.
No.20618
I'm reading Dracula. It's written in the form of letters sent amongst the main character and his associates, and in journal entries. It's got a scary mystery feel to it which I like a lot.
No.20620
>>20438
I can't do libraries myself; every little noise catches my attention and I get lost in thoughts brought up by every sentence I read, sending myself on internal rants that can make a single page last half an hour. I find that audiobooks are best for getting into the habit of reading (though I suppose you don't actually read,) but I still get thoughts that demand I pause the recording and play them out in my head.
No.20679
>>20505
>Remembering the Kanji
;D!
No.20684
I just finished reading God's Terrorists, about the rise of radical towelheads and the roots of their philosophy. It's interesting, but awfully dry and expects you to be familiar with the Middle-East or do a lot of background research. Also Arab names are a goddamn deep magic.
No.20685
>>20684
Middle Eastern and Chinese history are nightmares when it comes to names. They all seem like names made up by Wyatt Mann.
Foreign names should be illegal.
No.20708
>>20679
Got a problem with that?
No.20715
>>20708
>>20679
Better than Kanji Damage at least.
Why would an anti-Japanese kike write a book about kanji?
No.20741
I read a webmanga called rorimeshi about a little girl who eats lunch at unexpected and unlolilike places during school lunch hours. It's pretty cute and uses easy to understand Japanese. I really feel like I've seen something similar to the mangaka's art style before in an h-doujinshi somewhere but I'm not sure.
No.20746
>>20741
Post an example, I might recognize it.
No.20767
>>20766
Sorry I can't help you. The blushing, teary eyes, quivering mouth, and slight drooling are distinctly drawn but they don't match up with my mental archive.
The mouth in particular seem pretty unique in the way he uses it to express. Very rarely does it form a completely enclosed shape.
No.20773
I just read Georg RR Martins A storm of Swords. It was fairly average and I won't read another of his books because the show is pretty good so reading the books would just spoil the show.
No.20774
>>20773
>I won't read another of his books because the show is pretty good so reading the books would just spoil the show.
Oh god no. The show deviates from the book and gets extremely shitty.
No.20775
>>20774
I have watched all of the show so far and I have enjoyed it, the last season was not as good but it was more because it was slow and what they did to Sansa.
No.20807
Got some more books about local fables today, can't wait to read more about the misadventures of the dumb peasants from 300 years ago
No.20831
>>20807
post some of them for us
No.20852
Gifting this Wonderful World with Blessings is pretty gosh darn funny. It is your typical light novel trash but it does the same old stupid shit in interesting ways. It is getting and adaptation though so I don't hold much hope up for it. If it gets popular the author will end up changing it to accommodate the new rush of fans, if it doesn't get popular he will change it hoping to attract new fans. Why can't the slant eyed yellow monkeys just learn to leave well enough alone?
No.20876
「がっこうぐらし」第６巻読んだ。 ゆきの自閉症が治れるようになっているけど部長がスキゾになる予感。 アニメより面白くなっている。
No.20992
>>20831
There's a bunch of myths about monsters or ghostdogs preying on wanderers.
One day some guy was wandering from one town to another to sell his goods, that's when he spotted a dog.
He thought that it may have been his dog that ran away from him a while ago, so he called out to it.
The dog actually came towards him then, but it grew bigger and bigger as it drew closer, bigger than a horse even. That guy got scared and ran away.
There are also a bunch of stories about dogs or monsters jumping on the backs of wanderers, and they only go away once you pass a certain point or once you say a certain spell to banish it
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No.21265
Today I started reading a book about short stories from norse mythology called "Ragnarök".
It's not a very long book so I feel like most of it is being kept simple and shallow, which isn't a bad thing but I bet there is lots more cool stuff that they don't mention.
It also contains that fabled story of Loki turning himself into a horse in order to get fucked which I've heard so much about, to my surprise his motivation for this was a lot more reasonable than what I've expected.
Overall norse gods seem like reasonable people, unlike greek gods who just do stupid shit all the time for no reason
No.21266
>>21265
Are you reading it in old Norse? I've heared that Icelandic people are able to read the most sagas without much problems.
No.21270
>>21266
Nope, it's just the stories retold in easy to understand german, I guess this is the equivalent of pop science for mythology?
No.21555
I finished the Ragnarök book, their end was really tragic, but just because the gods were so stupid.
This time I borrowed a book about keltic fables, I only read 1 page so far but it already mentioned some king killing a other king to get his territory, his daughter and his queen just because.
It's kind of horrifying