In other news, this series is still weird

[petronia]

SBR #27 is up. These are SOUL'd OUT songs, aren't they, should've seen that one coming. (It occurred to me to search the video on Youtube and ahahaha something looks decidedly familiar. orz Also I guess Araki didn't unilaterally decide to dress Shinnosuke up as the wizard out of Granado Espada, they did that themselves.)

Gyro and Johnny have changed clothes! Michigan winters are no joke.

Actually I read four chapters in a shot - #24-#27, pretty much a tankoubon in itself. Uh. The plot holes are kind of glaringly massive (why don't these powerful and fearless stand users take Valentine on themselves?? if it were me I wouldn't have a hope or expectation that Lucy would rise to the occasion, the odds are too slim), but I was suitably distracted by the Conan Doyle lesbian porno. Not words I would've associated JoJo with previously, but so it goes. Porcelain shepherdesses! Decadent library books! I'd kind of missed Italians-with-pasts-of-tragic-melodrama, too (particularly serendipitous since I'd been re-reading Privilege of the Sword all day). A Swiss Guard of all things, this time.

Hot Pants is a Bride of Christ, I think; reste à savoir how literally Araki is going to interpret that. My guess is very.

Next: catching up on TRC/Holic, as per usual. XD

Comments

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

What the hell is up with people blogging about books just as I've started reading them or just finished them lately! It's kind of creepy!

...incidentally, I just started reading Privilege of the Sword yesterday and I'm about half-way through and it's entertaining as hell. XD;

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Good stuff. XD It's a really fun read, iirc it won a Locus (so did the Temeraire books, come to think of it).

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

Omg. Omg. I. I just finished it. I - dear god that was the most awesome thing I've read in YEARS. I haven't read anything that thoroughly enthralling since Etched City! ;laksdfjla;kdsjf

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i think my brain exploded

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

She has a livejournal doesn't she? GOD WHAT WAS HER USERNAME I MUST READ HER JOURNAL.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

ellen_kushner, natch. XD

You've read her other books, right?

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

GEE, that username is so very difficult to remember! No wonder I couldn't recall! Er. *dumb*

And uh ahaha, NOT A ONE. I foresee this problem will be rectified very soon. XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

...You haven't read Swordspoint? How can you read Privilege of the Sword without reading Swordspoint? XD; Horrible spoilers surely!

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

Well I mean, people largely seemed to be indicated it could be read stand-alone, and I wasn't confused by anything, so it was all good with me, and I've never been all that concerned over being spoiled on stories. XD;

[dipping_sauce]

Go read Swordspoint!

Now!

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I intend to! Er, that is, as soon as I can get my hands on a copy. XD;

[vonbrigthi.livejournal.com]

I always forget about Diggy-mo's multiple hat thing. Possibly because I make sure to delete it from my brain.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Here's a good reason to become rich and famous: so that one's geekiness might triumph. XD

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, so they're SOUL'd OUT songs! I was trying to figure it out and wondering what was going on.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the other one didn't ring a bell in my head, but a title like "Magenta Magenta" is hard to forget. XD

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Do you mean in English? Just checking. (I can't find anything later than chapter 24.)

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Sabina probably means the renumbered chapters. So she's talking about the latest raws, rather than the latest scanlation releases.

Damn, I should get caught up on SBR. I think I did stop around #24.