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At the moment I'm reading:

1. Durarara. Finally got round to it - everyone says it's some crazy shit, so I've got high expectations. It's a vaguely Pulp Fiction-style thing about various wierdoes who live in Ikebukuro and whose paths cross at various points, with some superatural/mystery stuff thown in too. It also involves Yana Toboso in some capacity, which is enough to sell me on pretty much any project you could care to name. The drawing's towards the good end of the scale without being mind-blowing, but with occational wow moments. There's an anime too, but I haven't seen that. Wikisummary with spoilers.

2. . I've already said how good this is in the "too good for the chatbox" thread. It describes economic phenomena from the point of view of government/the civil service. If any of the authors want to contact me for sexual favours, send a PM, because I love you guys.

3. Droit administratif général. Yup. My three years in law school made such a deep impression on me that I'm reduced to re-learning dt admin from Les Carrés. Or maybe I'm just a cretin. You be the judge. It's occasionally a little incoherent from the pressure of cramming everything in to so few pages, but it does what it says on the tin. I'd have prefered more on the different levels of contrôle and could have done without three pages of juridictional exceptions (I don't think that anyone learning the subject from this book is going to need to know that civil judges can, exceptionally, take on cases involving nuclear accidents), but on the whole it does what it sets out to.

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I'm reading 'Tranz-sex' and 'Shemale Fucks xxx'.

The Art Of Renaissance Warfare, Stephen Turnbull

The Navy At War, 1939-1945, Stephen Roskill

1. Gintama. I tried reading this, God knows why, in Japanese once or twice, but gave up because a) I suck and b) it's full of complicated puns that I didn't get (this apparently also makes it a bitch to scanlate). I also used to watch the anime, but I thought it had lost its way to a certain extent - as someone on one of the forums said, "it's turned into what it used to parody". Anyhoo, I'm back at the beginning with the translations, and enjoying it quite a lot. Wikisummary with spoilers.

2. Not reading but watching, Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro (sorry, French subs - there must be an English version somewhere online). I was a bit meh about this at the beginning, but it improves by quite a lot as you follow the storyline - with the main guys heading towards more of a love-hate/creepy loli devotion thing rather than just batsu geemu style gags with nothing behind them. Also, if you're a Japanese pronouns nerd like me, this is a complete bonanza as Neuro uses different ones for every personality that he's got. Wikisummary with spoilers.

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More ongoing series:

1. Gamble Fish Manga - Read Gamble Fish manga scans online. This is odd - normally I don't like this drawing style and find harem manga tedious (hmmm... I suppose He Is My Master had the occasional good joke, but still), it also started out more or less believable before quickly getting carried away with itself and going stark staring fucking bonkers (see also under To Aru Majutsu no Index - another harem deal), but despite all this it's kept my interest on the strength of the action alone. A bit like CSI - you're willing to forgive almost any amount of ludicrousness because the puzzles are so clever. Wikisummary.

2. Hohzuki Island. i've said before: this is how Higurashi should have been. It was good enough when we just thought that the teachers were out to kill the students, but now that it's been revealed that (highlight for spoilers) Shu might have been making the whole story up and they could be relatively innocent there's a whole other level to it. The whole reason I got into manga in the first place was because there's so often no clear moral lines, so this makes me very happy. Also, I think Kuwadate-sensei is hot: more of him, please Sanbe-san. Wiki.

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Also, still watching Bleach (Chinese, Taiwan subs). It's pretty heavy-going, largely because Orihime and Sado are possibly the two most boring characters in anime and they get a lot of airtime. I should search for other anime that exist in Chinese really, but I've got some good inertia going on this one.

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Is this "What are you reading"? or "what are you watching"?

I am reading James Patterson's "The murder of King Tut"? (frankly average) and "Reformation: Europe House Divided" by McCulloch. Frankly awesone.

I've been watching Jericho season 1. And also re-watching 'LA Confidential'. It doesn't get any less good with time. One of the awesomest thriller movie ever.

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Started off as what are you reading, but given that I mostly read manga and there's so much crossover it turned into both.

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I'm reading The Pickwick Papers, which I seem to have missed during my education. They wrote much more interestingly back then, and were less brainwashed.

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Brief round of Humiliation: the first few chapters of Great Expectations is all the Dickens I've ever read.

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