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sub_dividedSo apparently...the fifth case was an extra added to DS version of Phoenix Wright? So much for social commentary. ORZ In the future I'll keep the judgmentalism confined to my own country.
Bookblogging!
Robertson Davies, The Manticore
Sequel to Fifth Business. I liked Fifth Business but Manticore is extremely forgettable. In fact I picked it up today thinking I'd finish it, having forgotten that I already had. XD; Re-tells the events of Fifth Business from a different perspective. I think I forgot it because although Percy's son idolizes his father -- the villain in the first book -- the author invites you to read between the lines, and the picture of Percy you get is the exactly same picture of a successful-but-shallow, morally bankrupt industrialist. Also the same: the thing were Davies replaces religion with psychology. -_-; there's nothing new going on. On the other hand I did like the son a lot. Together with the first book, The Manticore seems to prove that all good, right-thinking people are self-loathing, though, which is a bit of a drag.
Abe Ignacio, The Forbidden Book
For school. Noniction. This is a collection of political cartoons from the first few years of the Philippine-American War (1898-1902). It's a very pretty book, nice typesetting, very well-designed, and the pictures are gorgeous even when they're really, really racist. -_-; What's funny is that the really right-wing magazines end up printing pictures that almost seem to be against the cause, because they aren't trying to convince the readership that US imperial goals in the Philippines are justified, it's assumed. And some of the most racist pictures are from Life, which apparently used to be this extremely liberal humor magazine started by veterans of the Harvard Lampoon. Anyway, great book, recommended to anyone who likes political cartoons.
Currently reading:
Benevolent Assimilation, Arthur Miller (nonfiction, for school)
All Shook Up, Glenn Altshuler (nonfiction, for school)
The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danicat (poetic and heartbreaking short stories about Haitian immigrants in the US)
To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis (time-traveling Victorians!)
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50bookchallenge:
2006 Retrospect
2007 #01-05.
2007 #06-10
Bookblogging!
Robertson Davies, The Manticore
Sequel to Fifth Business. I liked Fifth Business but Manticore is extremely forgettable. In fact I picked it up today thinking I'd finish it, having forgotten that I already had. XD; Re-tells the events of Fifth Business from a different perspective. I think I forgot it because although Percy's son idolizes his father -- the villain in the first book -- the author invites you to read between the lines, and the picture of Percy you get is the exactly same picture of a successful-but-shallow, morally bankrupt industrialist. Also the same: the thing were Davies replaces religion with psychology. -_-; there's nothing new going on. On the other hand I did like the son a lot. Together with the first book, The Manticore seems to prove that all good, right-thinking people are self-loathing, though, which is a bit of a drag.
Abe Ignacio, The Forbidden Book
For school. Noniction. This is a collection of political cartoons from the first few years of the Philippine-American War (1898-1902). It's a very pretty book, nice typesetting, very well-designed, and the pictures are gorgeous even when they're really, really racist. -_-; What's funny is that the really right-wing magazines end up printing pictures that almost seem to be against the cause, because they aren't trying to convince the readership that US imperial goals in the Philippines are justified, it's assumed. And some of the most racist pictures are from Life, which apparently used to be this extremely liberal humor magazine started by veterans of the Harvard Lampoon. Anyway, great book, recommended to anyone who likes political cartoons.
Currently reading:
Benevolent Assimilation, Arthur Miller (nonfiction, for school)
All Shook Up, Glenn Altshuler (nonfiction, for school)
The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danicat (poetic and heartbreaking short stories about Haitian immigrants in the US)
To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis (time-traveling Victorians!)
50bookchallenge: 2006 Retrospect
2007 #01-05.
2007 #06-10