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Pattern Recognition
Feb. 17th, 2003 11:43 pm#1: the new William Gibson novel. Saw it in the McGill bookstore this morning, and read the first page while queuing up to buy a phone line splitter. It's... William Gibson doing William Gibson-ishly, I reckon. XD I read a review the other day that said Gibson was a better short story writer than he was a novelist; I've enjoyed all his novels but the judgment is probably true. Gibson can be positively baroque in a very few words - a new refrigerator, he writes, smells of "cold and long-chain polymers".
(Well, something like that. I've just realised I don't remember the quote exactly, ai yai yai.)
#2: Hikaru no Go, up to the end of tankoubon 11. Aaaahhhh~~ thank goodness I took six volumes instead of five, I'd be forced to choose between online spoilers and a week's worth of un-productivity otherwise. XD XD I was on tenterhooks that they were going to end the book on a cliff-hanger.
It's interesting, isn't it, most shounen manga don't happen in real time, the match-ups take too long. HikaGo is unusual that way. Each game takes a very few pages, even the important ones. (Though I suppose a decent player would be able to get the gist of the thing just by looking at the final disposition... ^^;) Mind you I wouldn't have thought anything of it, if it didn't seem to me that Akira's grown a little taller in the last couple of volumes. ^^;; I wasted a few minutes squinting at him, because shounen manga characters never actually get taller, even if they're in high school and should rightly be shooting up like bamboo - well, Sakuragi did by like a centimetre, but you can't really tell, and anyhow the series do tend to take place over a short timespan. ...Hikaru, for instance, obviously hasn't grown a bit. ^^;;; Unnh.. I think the boy's got a long way to go.
(Well, something like that. I've just realised I don't remember the quote exactly, ai yai yai.)
#2: Hikaru no Go, up to the end of tankoubon 11. Aaaahhhh~~ thank goodness I took six volumes instead of five, I'd be forced to choose between online spoilers and a week's worth of un-productivity otherwise. XD XD I was on tenterhooks that they were going to end the book on a cliff-hanger.
It's interesting, isn't it, most shounen manga don't happen in real time, the match-ups take too long. HikaGo is unusual that way. Each game takes a very few pages, even the important ones. (Though I suppose a decent player would be able to get the gist of the thing just by looking at the final disposition... ^^;) Mind you I wouldn't have thought anything of it, if it didn't seem to me that Akira's grown a little taller in the last couple of volumes. ^^;; I wasted a few minutes squinting at him, because shounen manga characters never actually get taller, even if they're in high school and should rightly be shooting up like bamboo - well, Sakuragi did by like a centimetre, but you can't really tell, and anyhow the series do tend to take place over a short timespan. ...Hikaru, for instance, obviously hasn't grown a bit. ^^;;; Unnh.. I think the boy's got a long way to go.
