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ANBUx3
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 Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:38 pm
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| Quote: | | One student, a girl named Hitagi Senjōgahara, almost literally falls into his lap from the skies. |
It had anime written all over it from the beginning.
I'm kind of curious to look into NisiOisin's other books. I wasn't terribly fond of the Death Note novel, so I wonder if I'd like any of his other stuff.
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Andrew Cunningham
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:57 pm
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| ANBUx3 wrote: |
| Quote: | | One student, a girl named Hitagi Senjōgahara, almost literally falls into his lap from the skies. |
It had anime written all over it from the beginning.
I'm kind of curious to look into NisiOisin's other books. I wasn't terribly fond of the Death Note novel, so I wonder if I'd like any of his other stuff. |
It's also a pretty inaccurate summary. He catches her when she falls down the stairs, and discovers she has no weight. So she sticks a stapler in his mouth.
Personally, I tend to like his books in spite of the mystery stuff - I don't actually like mysteries, so the ones with more mystery elements tend to rate a little lower. I think his style is fantastic, and that tends to make me overlook a few tedious deductive passages.
Bakemonogatari has no mystery elements at all, and is one of my favorite books of his because of it.[/spoiler]
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Teriyaki Terrier
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:25 pm
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| ANBUx3 wrote: |
| Quote: | | One student, a girl named Hitagi Senjōgahara, almost literally falls into his lap from the skies. |
It had anime written all over it from the beginning.
I'm kind of curious to look into NisiOisin's other books. I wasn't terribly fond of the Death Note novel, so I wonder if I'd like any of his other stuff. |
Let me guess, this is going to be a haream series? No offensive, but hasn't the whole "an angel falling from the sky" been done far too many times now?
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ANBUx3
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:39 pm
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| Teriyaki Terrier wrote: | | Let me guess, this is going to be a haream series? No offensive, but hasn't the whole "an angel falling from the sky" been done far too many times now? |
Andrew Cunningham just pointed out that the summary was a bit off on 'girl falling from sky'. The story sounds like it could easily fall into been-there-done-that territory, but hopefully it can rise above it.
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Andrew Cunningham
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:49 pm
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| ANBUx3 wrote: | | Andrew Cunningham just pointed out that the summary was a bit off on 'girl falling from sky'. The story sounds like it could easily fall into been-there-done-that territory, but hopefully it can rise above it. |
It's definitely one of those books that looks like nothing done as a library of congress summary, since 90% of it is the characters having incredibly long and very funny conversations.
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