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I've been reading a lot since around August, and I was looking at
my Goodreads account the other day and I noticed the goal I'd set myself needed about one book read for every day left in December to be completed. I decided to try reading some short books, but I also figured I could kinda cheat by instead reading manga volumes. I know I can read a few in a day and I don't often read much manga, so it's a great reason to make myself read lots of manga before the year is out! I'm starting out with Junji Ito's horror collection (which the images in this post are taken from), because I loved his most well-known series, Uzumaki, so much (I reviewed the live action film version
here). His stories are consistently well paced and enthralling, with just the right amount of weirdness. I'm hoping to read every last bit of his stuff, particularly his Cat Diary and The Lovesick Dead.
Other manga I'm thinking about taking a look at as part of this quest are: Oyasumi Punpun, Blood Diver Ringo and the Fishbowl Man, Nyan Koi!, The Voynich Hotel, and various things included in
horror manga lists.
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I'm a big reader, but never had a Manga book in my hands :)
ReplyDeleteGood luck :)
What are your favourite books? I hope you check out some manga some time, there's so much to sift through!
DeleteJunji Ito is a gem! He really knows how to show some raw feeling. All his art are such treasure!
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Ito is just like nothing I've ever read before. So great.
DeleteAt the moment I'm addict to Dostoevsky, but before I readed all that's available in Lv from Game of Trones :)
ReplyDeleteI've never read any Dostoevsky before! I'll have to get on that.
DeleteI didn't liked Him when I had to read it at school, but now it is one of my favorite writer, I really suggest You to red ''The Idiot", ''The brothers Karamazow" or ''Notes from underground"
ReplyDeleteAaa we should start a horror manga reading club!!! As someone who is not a super confident reader I love comics and manga so much as I can actually read them for pleasure, as novels can be a drag sometimes :))
ReplyDeleteYes! I'm a confident reader, but reading comics is so different. A much more fluid experience a lot of the time. I'm on volume 10 of the Junji Ito horror collection at the moment. 6 more to go!
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