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Brian Asman–Nunchuck Metropolis (2021) / Lucas Magnum "Curse of the Ninja" (2021)
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[READ: March 2022] Nunchuck City
I rather enjoyed Brian Asman's book Man, Fuck This House. And since I had copies of 2 of his other books at my desk-bound, I thought I'd give them a effort too.
Nunchuck City is a very different books from House. Information technology is an over-the-meridian comedy/ninja story. Information technology doesn't exactly travel in cliche as much as it explodes the clichés and goes past them into hilarious territory.
Every bit long equally yous know what yous're getting with the book, it's a really fun and funny (and fast) read.
Plus, Asman has a ton of fun with local businesses also.
The story is prepare in Turbo City. Skip Baxter, the Most Dangerous Human in Turbo City (even if the city won't see fit to let him register his fists as Mortiferous Weapons) is nigh to go his ass kicked. This is no surprise. Baxter learned everything he knew near Karate from watching a three 24-hour interval binger marathon of kung-fu movies, declaring himself a sensei and opening a gym. He got his ass kicked by eight-year olds. But you tin imagine his pride at realizing that he taught those kids to kick his ass.
Just this time he is virtually to go his donkey kicked by an actual Ninja, Kundarai Saru. Saru intends to kick the donkey of everyone in Turbo Urban center until he tin accept on the mayor. In that location is a law in Turbo City that anyone who tin can defeat the Mayor in battle will become Mayor. And once Saru is Mayor of Turbo City, nothing can stop the rest of his plans.
So nosotros meet Nunchuck Nick. He was trained to be a ninja. Only he establish that he preferred cooking. So after an incident he'd prefer to forget, he moved to Turbo Urban center with the intent of selling the all-time Fondue in the earth. He parked his nutrient truck right in forepart of The Crepes of Wrath, a popular creperie in which the waiters were mean stand comedians who would personally insult you while you ate. (more…)
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[READ: March 2022] Man, Fuck This Business firm
Okay, so this book has the all-time championship.
I didn't wait a lot from information technology, but I thought I'd give it a read. not actually knowing exactly what to expect with a championship similar that.
So the novel is a horror story. And it isn't all that funny (it's not supposed to be). The simple summation is that a house becomes possessive of the person who is taking care of it. The business firm wants to brand that person happy and is content to become rid of anybody else.
So a family has moved to this firm on a cul de sac in New Mexico.
At that place are two children. And older daughter and a younger son. I was a little bummed at the outset to acquire that the son consumed his twin in the womb, considering information technology seemed so ripe for cliche, but Asman did some interesting things with that idea. The daughter is an aloof teenager.
The husband is kind of a goof and not actually all that present.
Actually, the story is most the wife and mom, Sabrina. (more…)
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Zhang Xiaoyu–The Hamlet Teacher [by Cixin Liu] (Graphic novel #1 2021) [originally written 2001; translated 2021]
Posted in Barack Obama, Cancer every bit plot device, China, Cixin Liu, Death, End of the Earth, Graphic Novel, Outer Space, Southward. Qiouyi Lu, Set at School, Supernatural, Surreal, Talos Press, Translation, Violence, Zhang Xiaoyu on February 21, 2022| Leave a Comment »
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[READ: Feb 2022] The Hamlet Teacher
This book came to my work and it was quite a challenge to catalog. Cixin Liu is a Chinese science fiction author. These are graphic novel adaptations of his short stories. Merely he did not write the graphic novels. Yet, I wanted them linked together considering there are going to be sixteen of them and they should all go together. If you put them nether Liu, then they go into the Chinese authors section. But these are American books created for American audiences. (I wound up making it an American series under Liu's name).
Anyway, I had never heard of him before, just these books are blurbed by none other than Barack Obama.
And then I decided to accept a look at them.
This volume is also called The Rural Teacher in translated form.
Afterwards the complex intensity that was The Wandering Earth, this story is much more than simple. But information technology is non less intense.
In that location are two storylines. I'm non certain if in the written work it's less clear that the story lines are at the same fourth dimension. It felt similar for a powerful result, they would not be obviously simultaneous, but I'm not sure how he could take done that.
The story starts on a school in a rural village. The instructor is pedagogy the kids well-nigh outer space. (more…)
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Christophe Bec, Stefano Raffaele–The Wandering Earth [by Cixin Liu] (Graphic novel #2 2021) [originally written 2000; translated 2021]
Posted in Babies, Barack Obama, Cathay, Cixin Liu, Death, End of the World, Graphic Novel, Jok, Magnus, Olympics, Outer Space, Rodolfo Santullo, S. Qiouyi Lu, Supernatural, Surreal, Talos Press, Translation, Violence on February 17, 2022| Leave a Comment »
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[READ: February 2022] The Wandering Globe
This book came to my work and it was quite a claiming to catalog. Cixin Liu is a Chinese science fiction writer. These are graphic novel adaptations of his brusk stories. But he did not write the graphic novels. However, I wanted them linked together because there are going to exist 16 of them and they should all go together. If you put them under Liu, then they go into the Chinese authors section. Merely these are American books created for American audiences. (I wound up making information technology an American series nether Liu'south proper noun).
Anyhow, I had never heard of him before, but these books are blurbed by none other than Barack Obama.
And then I decided to take a wait at them.
This second one is also a dark story about the destruction of the earth (actually, all iii are).
The story is also more complicated with a lengthy timespan and a few surprises thrown in.
As the story opens nosotros learn that three hundred years agone scientists discovered that our sun was using upwardly its hydrogen and converting it to helium–it was going to explode. So the scientists began a plan. Using rockets, they would end the earth's rotation and then using those same rockets, they would propel the earth into a habitable part of the galaxy.
Obviously, this would accept many generations and would result in the destruction of the earth every bit we know it.
The book begins with a babe born on the day that the world had stopped rotating. We quickly jump to the boy in school learning nearly everything that happened (a great way of doing exposition). These students are high-tech and scientifically very smart. Art and philosophy and everything like it have basically been done with because it's all hands on deck for saving the planet. (more…)
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Rodolfo Santullo, Jok–Sea of Dreams [past Cixin Liu] (Graphic novel #1 2021) [originally written 2002; translated 2021]
Posted in Artists, Barack Obama, China, Cixin Liu, End of the World, Graphic Novel, Jok, Magnus, Outer Space, Rodolfo Santullo, Supernatural, Surreal, Talos Press on Feb sixteen, 2022| Get out a Comment »
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[READ: February 2022] Bounding main of Dreams
This book came to my piece of work and it was quite a claiming to catalog. Cixin Liu is a Chinese scientific discipline fiction writer. These are graphic novel adaptations of his brusk stories. Simply he did not write the graphic novels. However, I wanted them linked together because at that place are going to be 16 of them and they should all go together. If you lot put them nether Liu, and then they go into the Chinese authors section. But these are American books created for American audiences. (I wound upward making information technology an American series nether Liu's name).
Anyhow, I had never heard of him before, but these books are blurbed past none other than Barack Obama.
So I decided to have a look at them.
This first one is a dark story most the destruction of the earth (actually, all three are).
The story opens on an Ice & Snow Arts Festival. The artist Yan Dong is completely wrapped upward in his sculpture which is abstract and wild unlike every other ane. While people are looking at the fine art, a giant ball comes out of the sky and hovers higher up the ground. The brute calls itself a Depression Temperature Artist. Information technology states that only art matters in the universe–everything else is trivial.
Information technology scoffs at the realistic art pieces and says that just Dong'south is worth considering.
Then it says that information technology will create the greatest ice-based art. And information technology slowly begins sucking upwardly all of the water from the earth. It freezes the water and begins preparations for its installation which will remain in space protected by a membrane that will forestall the ice from melting.
Pretty cool. Except of course, that before long, the planet is completely stale out. (more…)
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Kazu Kibuishi–Amulet: Volume Eight: Supernova (2018)
Posted in Aliens, Alternate Reality, Children'southward Books, Death, Dystopia, Ghosts, Graphic Novel, Kazu Kibuishi, Mystery, Outer Space, Robots, Supernatural, Superstitions, Technology on February 5, 2022| Leave a Comment »
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[READ: Feb 2, 2018] Amulet: Supernova
Information technology has been SIX YEARS since I read the previous book in the series and the final book isn't even out still! When I finished book seven I wrote "How can I await a twelvemonth for book 8? [Word has it Book 8 volition come out in 2018]." And in that year I totally forgot about this serial. Whoops.
And so information technology was a piffling hard catching up to what was going on, but I managed.
The book opens with Trellis in a dream. he meets an one-time woman traveler who guides him through his dream. Before he wakes he asks if he will run across her again–she says sooner than you expect. When Trellis wakes, he is told the elf regular army has made landfall.
But when we see the army, led by a small beast named Logi, Logi tells the commander that their plan is surrender. Trellis tin can't believe it, but it appears to be true and they have the ground forces into lock up. The urban center celebrates Trellis, but he is suspicious and he has every right to exist because Logi has a token of the Elf King's affection–a glowing object,
Which turns out to be a flop of sorts. (more than…)
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Anita Roy–Gravepyres School for the Recently Deceased (2020)
Posted in Adventure, Anita Roy, Boredom, Children's Books, Corporate skewering, Death, Fears, India, Fix at School, Supernatural, Vultures on January 4, 2022| Leave a Comment »
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[READ: Jan ten, 2021] Gravepyres School for the Recently Deceased
I establish this book at work and was instantly intrigued by many things. The title Gravepyres sounded unusual to me. It also seemed like a children's book (which it is). Plus, it had a postage stamp that said "For auction merely within the territories of India, Bangladesh, Kingdom of bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka." Which I found pretty fascinating.
Fifty-fifty more than then because this is a children's fantasy book virtually beingness dead and the kind of "life" that you tin have "at that place." I thought it might be quite different than an American book.
The book opens on Jose who has just died. He has no idea that he just died and every bit he is trying to get his bearings, he is greeted by a small, snobby girl named Mishi. She brings him to Gravepyres School for the Recently Deceased. She tours him around the place, scolds him for his poor clothing (she provides him with a tunic) and tells him to go set up for classes..
Of course there is school when you are dead! There is mathamythics. Where the seemingly simple question 6+4= is not what one expects. None of the students answered until finally one of them said four hundred and sixteen. Jose chuckled, merely the teacher said "Adept, excellent." Other seemingly correct answers were ninety seven and a half, eight thousand, fifty two, even twelve. Merely when Jose said the answer is ten, Professor Styx said Oh beloved. non quite. The residuum of the classes made the same amount of sense.
Like Scare Studies from Madam Morte and Seeing from Dr Chiplunker (who wore the most outrageous spectacles he had e'er seen). Tin can you lot See the pencil in front end of you? Look closely. Look at it for an hour. Jose decided it was the most ho-hum class he had e'er heard of. (more…)
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Leo Tolstoy–"The 3 Hermits" [Russia] (translated by Leo Wiener) [The 2021 Brusque Story Advent Calendar #21] (1886/translation betwixt 1862 & 1939)
Posted in Alberto Manguel, Canadian Content, Christmas, Hingston & Olsen, Leo Tolstoy, Leo Wiener, Religion, Russian federation, Short Story, Supernatural, The Brusk Story Advent Agenda, Translation on Dec 21, 2021| Leave a Comment »
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[READ: Dec 21, 2021] "The Three Hermits"
This year, S. ordered me The Short Story Advent Agenda. This is my seventh time reading the Calendar. The 2021 Short Story Appearance Agenda is a deluxe box set up of individually jump short stories.
As always, each story is a surprise, so y'all won't know what you're getting until you crack the seal every morning starting December i. Once you've read that day's story, check this link where editor Alberto Manguel is providing daily commentary on each of the stories he selected for this yr'south calendar.
By the time I saw Leo Tolstoy I was getting a little annoyed by the finish of this collection. Nix against Tolstoy at all–we should all read him more, but over again, I wanted a contemporary author to become excited by.
And and so this story turned out to exist exactly the same as Ray Bradbury'south story (obviously Tolstoy was first), just it was less satisfying.
Basically, a bishop is aboard a ship and is told past the pilgrims on board that at that place'due south an island nearby with three very holy hermits. Naturally the busybody bishop needs to see them to brand certain they are praying correctly. Then he disrupts the entire voyage, making everyone else delay their travels for at least a full day, so he can exist a pain in the ass to these poor hermits.
He tries to teach them about god, but they don't sympathize him. (more…)
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Chen Xuanyou–"Ch'ien-niang" [China] (translated past Wayne Schlepp) [The 2021 Short Story Advent Calendar #20] (fl. 779/translation 1990)
Posted in Alberto Manguel, Canadian Content, Chen Xuanyou, China, Christmas, Fairy Tales, Hingston & Olsen, Romance, Short Story, Supernatural, The Short Story Appearance Calendar, Wayne Schlepp on December 20, 2021| Leave a Comment »
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[READ: December 20, 2021] "Ch'ien-niang"
This twelvemonth, S. ordered me The Short Story Advent Calendar. This is my seventh fourth dimension reading the Agenda. The 2021 Short Story Advent Calendar is a deluxe box fix of individually bound short stories.
Equally always, each story is a surprise, then you won't know what you're getting until you crack the seal every morning starting December 1. Once you've read that mean solar day's story, check this link where editor Alberto Manguel is providing daily commentary on each of the stories he selected for this twelvemonth'due south agenda.
As with Homer and Hans Christian Andersen, I am adequately surprised that Manguel went back to the Tang Dynasty (fifty-fifty if information technology the Aureate Historic period of Chinese literature) to discover a story. Especially since "'Ch'ien-niang' is a Chinese version of Sleeping Beauty with a twist."
Ch'ien-niang is a fable that the narrator had often heard of.
Ch'ien-niang was designed to marry Wang Chou. But Chou was to be sent away instead. (more than…)
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Hans Christian Andersen–"The Travelling Companion" [Kingdom of denmark] (translated past M.R. James) [The 2021 Short Story Advent Calendar #xviii] (1835/translation 1930)
Posted in Alberto Manguel, Canadian Content, Christmas, Expiry, Denmark, Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen, Hingston & Olsen, Short Story, Supernatural, The Short Story Appearance Calendar, Trolls, Violence on December 18, 2021| Leave a Comment »
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[READ: December 18, 2021] "The Travelling Companion"
This yr, S. ordered me The Short Story Appearance Calendar. This is my seventh time reading the Calendar. The 2021 Short Story Advent Calendar is a deluxe box fix of individually bound curt stories.
As always, each story is a surprise, so you won't know what you lot're getting until y'all fissure the seal every morning time starting December 1. Once you've read that day'southward story, cheque this link where editor Alberto Manguel is providing daily commentary on each of the stories he selected for this year's calendar.
I have mixed feelings about including a Hans Christian Andersen story here. On the one hand, I don't think I have e'er actually read an HCA story (of course I know many of them). So on the one paw information technology was interesting to do so. Merely, as with Homer, in that location was no from the last century and a one-half in Denmark worthy of inclusion here?
In this story a Poor John's father dies immediately. Then Poor John sets off with his few belongings to seek his fortune.
The first night he slept under the stars and in the morning gave some coins to a ragamuffin. After that dark, he happened upon a church and made to sleep there for the dark as the weather was worsening. (more…)
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