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So, i was just wondering what kind of other literature ( besides Manga ) you read. I would guess most of you read western comics, but what else.

   I used to read tons of Fantasy and Science Fiction. I've cut back on that, but still do. Read otherstuff too. Well, never liked detective stories. 

 Anyway, some favorites: Enders Game ( orson scott card), the Tales of the Malazan Book of the Fallen ( really really good Epic fantasy, really good, by Steven Erikson )   

Michel Houellebecq wrote a really cool book called Elementary Particles ( nothing for the squeemisch ) it is probably the most pessimistic book i ever read, but very cool.

I have wanted to read something from the guy who wrote fight club. Haven't done that yet.

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P.S. Stealth, this is our chance to prove, that Manga readers are a cut above the rest!

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So, i was just wondering what kind of other literature ( besides Manga ) you read

hmmmmmmmm can't help you with your "cut above the rest..." because I don't read :-/ I've never been a fan of books. Everything i know comes from the gut. I depend on tried and true truthiness.

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P.S. Stealth, this is our chance to prove, that Manga readers are a cut above the rest!

Man... I was going to write a simple reply, until I read that... Now I feel like I'm supposed to write an essaie about modern litterature or something...
Well but I will write a simple answer anyway... and if you don't like it you can fill in a complaint and wait for your turn to come.

I personaly hate western comics... so I don't know for the rest of the manga readers, but you're guess might not necesserly be true.
I do like Science fiction, and fantasy. My favorite science fiction author is probably Isaac Asimov.
I had a period where I read a HUGE lot of detective stories... and as I said I read them by the lot... I don't even remember who wrote them...
I don't usually focus on one type of books and get bored fast it I read to much books of the same genre (That's why I hate detective storys now lol)
I mostly read books out of recomendation from friends of mine (wich are mostly existentialist freaks). So I end up reading a lot more "philosophic" books than what I would wish... So i'll take your favorites as nice books recomendations.
(except "Michel Houellebecq" because I hate him WITH A PASSION!!!)

I read books. I'll list the ones I can remember that I read:

To kill a Mockingbird
Fences
Death of a Salesman
Othello
The Crucible
The DaVinci Code
Angels & Demons
Hamlet
Dr. Faustus
The Jesus Incident
Crime and Punishment
Of Mice and Men
The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Why do birds
Iron Ring
Dune
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Hobbit
A streetcar name desire
The outsiders
Stranger in a strange land
Sherlock Holmes, the complete volumes
The red Pony
The Pearl
Ethane Frome
Beowulf
A view from the bridge

So far, my favorite book is Crime and Punishment. It's like a dicitonary, but it's really cool.

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Well, I scarcely read modern literature... It's mostly limited to stuff like Harry Potter stuff or Paulo Coelho's books once in a while or some must-read bestsellers like The da Vinci Code or Das Parfum.

And I'm not a fan of sci-fi or fantasy (have read LotR, but duh), so it's mostly classical literature for me (XIXth and XXth century), both Russian (way to go, ares6, for understanding Dostoevsky's greatness) and English. Other European classics are also very good.

Writers? All Russian classics (Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Turgenev, Chekhov), French (Dumas, Balzac) and English/American writers like Hemingway, Salinger (omg, The Catcher in The Rye!), and of course W.S.Maugham - probably the most brilliant English-speaking writer of the XXth century.

It's amazing how the classics beat everything ever written nowadays. Maybe not as entertaining as Bleach or Naruto, but just so, so much better.

Don't waste your time or time will waste you.

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So I end up reading a lot more "philosophic" books than what I would wish... So i'll take your favorites as nice books recomendations.

I don't have high aims, this is enough to get us that cut above the rest i was hoping for. Well, manick does seem to pull us down a bit, but if Ares6 fav book really is crime and punishment that should be enough to smother over that Manick blemish 🙂

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I personaly hate western comics...

 really? Who would have figuered. does that go for french stuff too? ( i count french stuff as west )

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It's amazing how the classics beat everything ever written nowadays.

    that so reminded me of russian sentiment about literature!

P.S. i don't think i have read a book older than 100 years i liked. Well, I am not sure if i ever read any book older than 100 years. I was very good at passing tests about books i had never read in school

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really? Who would have figuered. does that go for french stuff too? ( i count french stuff as west )

Na when I thought western comics, I had in mind marvel & co.
So with this new definition... I don't hate western comics, but I don't like them either. I'll probably read that if I was bored out of my mind on a deserted Island and had to chose between reading that or an essaie written by a 5 year old in Zulu. Or maybe that would be a good occasion to learn Zulu...

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It's amazing how the classics beat everything ever written nowadays. Maybe not as entertaining as Bleach or Naruto, but just so, so much better.

Wow... that's exactly what I always though! (Even though I don't usualy read Russian Literature, know any good translated ones?)
And by Dumas I guess you mean the father right? "Le comte de Monte-Cristo" is one of my favorite books ever!

Go Dostoevsky!!! I really want to read The Brothers Karamazov, but damn...it's longer than Crime and Punishment. so as of right now, I'm sticking with Heart of Darkness.

oh....also, I read Inferno, The catcher in the Rye, The War of the World, Time Machine, the Invisible man, and the The Island of Dr. Moreau.

Personally Inferno and The Island of Dr. Moreau gave me nightmares........

Just because I like Crime and Punishment does not imply I have a criminal state of mind. I am not a criminal.

Cough cough, Manick reads. He just doesn't show it. The Library gave him a special card that allows him to borrow 50 books at once. 😀

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Im just being curious but does anyone know how far your salary would go if you are an artist or to be specific, a character designer? you know, just like Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the artist for Evangelion....

Im just being curious but does anyone know how far your salary would go if you are an artist or to be specific, a character designer? you know, just like Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the artist for Evangelion....

First guess, not far. Second guess, don't rely on me, i have no real information. I would write emails to things like the british illustrators comittee. ( name made up, but such organizations do exist )

I used to read a lot of books, from: Fantasy - Tolkien(LotR, Silmarillion etc.) over classic "class-literature":Marquez, Camus, Fitzgerald, Schiller~~ (you prolly know the names =)) to some newer books from german authors (Klaus Kordon, Tanja Kinkel- lol i just found out she was born where I'm studying atm ^^)

But after I got my PC I stopped reading "en mass", now I'm basically reading stuff for my university courses.
My last finished book (I have a bad habit to start several books at once and don't finish one of them t_T) was "The Mighty and the Almighty" from Madeleine K. Albright and I'm currently reading Bob Woodwards' "State of Denial".

And i have to admit I mostly hate western(american) comics :/ . I love Asterix and Obelix, Tim und Struppi and Lucky Luke tho 😀

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From the Deadlands I descend'
back from the dead, back from The End
'I'm here to take Revenge!

Sci-fi and fantasy for me!

Haven't had much time to read lately...I blame all the school work and testing.

A just ruler amongst tyrants

I read a fair amount, so rather than bore u I will just recommend a few...

Stephen King: His Dark Tower series... Ridiculous, and since u like scifi, fantasy, and westerns this combines all 3, (and horror as a bonus! but i didn't really get how thsi was claimed to be horror) Be forewarned tho, these is a really intense violencewise sexwise and headtripwise.

I guess i can't really recommend a textbook (philosophy) so i'll skip that

If you're still in the "young adult" section diana wynne jones Chrestomanci and DJ MacHales (sp?) Pendragon series were good

comics wise i dont read too much but there was a webcomic that i like for some reason (i dont know why really) called... Return to sender, maybe that was it, i dont know. Anyway this guy gets letters from a slot in his wall and when he follows the directions people die...

ya

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I read a fair amount, so rather than bore u I will just recommend a few...

Stephen King: His Dark Tower series... Ridiculous, and since u like scifi, fantasy, and westerns this combines all 3, (and horror as a bonus! but i didn't really get how thsi was claimed to be horror) Be forewarned tho, these is a really intense violencewise sexwise and headtripwise.

I guess i can't really recommend a textbook (philosophy) so i'll skip that

If you're still in the "young adult" section diana wynne jones Chrestomanci and DJ MacHales (sp?) Pendragon series were good

comics wise i dont read too much but there was a webcomic that i like for some reason (i dont know why really) called... Return to sender, maybe that was it, i dont know. Anyway this guy gets letters from a slot in his wall and when he follows the directions people die...

ya

I don't understand why they say Stephen King's books are scary...it's just real bloody and gory. I read some of his famous ones and personally, it's not scary.

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