Confessions of a bookaholic

[oyceter]

I went to the used bookstore today to get a copy of What Color Is My Parachute?.

Two hours later, I walked out with the following:

- Megan Chance, Fall From Grace
- Kara Dalkey, Little Sister
- Geraldine Harris, Seven Citadels: Prince of the Godborn
- Soryo Fuyumi, Mars, vols. 1-7
- Hagio Moto, A, A' (WHOO!!!!!!!!)
- Yuki Kaori, Angel Sanctuary, vols. 6-10
- Akiyama Tamayo, Mouryou Kiden: Legend of the Nymph, vol. 1

The really sad thing is, I was actually displaying some modicum of willpower. I passed up Death Note vol. 4, Planet Ladder vols. 2-5, something called Thread of Time vols. 1-5 (I vaguely remember this title, probably from LJ, but I can't for the life of me remember), Tezuka Osamu's Buddha vol. 1 and Get Backers vol. 1.

Most of what I got are things that I've read before and know I want. Um, of course, I already have all of Mars, but I console myself with the fact that it is all in Chinese and back in Taiwan. Ok, I already have the Chance too, but it's out of print. The Dalkey and the Harris are unknowns, but highly recced by yhlee, and Hagio Moto speaks for herself (I read A, A' before in photocopy my freshman year for a class). Plus, I know I will want all of Angel Sanctuary. It's just too pretty and insane to resist. The only real unknown is the Akiyama Tamayo, and I fell to the wily ways of the back cover copy, which says Akiyama was a former member of CLAMP and the series is fantasy romance.

I comfort myself with the thought that everything was used.

Comments

*JEALOUSY*

[octopedingenue]

My local used bookstore only has one tiny cardboard box of manga with old issues of Shonen Jump and random volumes of Dragonball Z. WAIL!

Re: *JEALOUSY*

[oyceter]

I nearly fell over in surprise! I knew they had manga, but usually they only have a scattering of completely random manga that isn't interesting, and very few things that I've actually heard of.

Which is my excuse for the giant buying spree....

[telophase.livejournal.com]

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Threads of Time is a manhwa where a modern Korean teenager gets thrown back in time to the time of the Mongol invasion, and Adventures Happen. Art is GORGEOUS, story ... maunders around a bit. Main baddie is the Mongol warlord Sali Tayi, who shows one momentary hint of depth but unfortunately goes back to being a one-note sadistic evil guy afterwards, although he looks like a grown-up Sasuke quite nice. He's affianced to a Mongol princess who, you know, is destined to end up with our time-travelling hero. Especially since she's Spunky and wants to Fight Like A Man!

But I can forgive a whole hell of a lot just for that art.

[rilina.livejournal.com]

What telophase says. I read the first 3? 4? volumes of this before I gave up because nothing was really happening.

(And I can forgive a whole lot for Mongol hordes.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I've owned volume 7 for a while, but I haven't even managed to finish 6. I ought to crack it open at some point.

[oyceter]

Ahhh, that's right, I must have seen it on your LJ! It's too bad about the boringness though, because... Mongol hordes!

[oyceter]

Now that I'm reading Naruto, your icon is about ten thousand times funnier.

Hrm, maybe I will skip Threads of Time and go for giant robot chickens Planet Ladder.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

XD Blame octopedingenue for the icon. :)

[seajules]

Eee! Prince of the Godborn! I love that series.

Don't get Get Backers. Really, really, really. Watch the anime. The manga is ugly like whoa, with a high T&A factor.

[oyceter]

Ooo ok!

This is ranalore's fault ;).

[seajules]

I figured my alter ego might be to blame. ;-)

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

You know, they say the definition of a boring person is someone who goes to look something up in the dictionary and reads only the definition for the word they originally wanted.

[oyceter]

Hee! I sort of figured going into the used bookstore would be tempting fate, but little did I know just how much there would be!

[greenapple2004.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I apologize in advance for Mouryou Kiden. I took over for volumes 2 and 3, and even with a good translator, Jake Forbes on the rewrite, and me double-checking everything in Japanese, I still don't think I understand what the hell was going on. Up there with Mink as one of the most painful books I've worked on.

But it's awful pretty! And we did a great job on the production, if I do say so myself.

[oyceter]

It is really pretty! I am, uh, more there for the pretty than the plot right now, considering that it is someone from CLAMP.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Yay Angel Sanctuary and Mars and Moto Hagio and Geraldine Harris!

Mouryou Kiden, I am afraid, has gorgeous character designs and NO BACKGROUNDS. I am not kidding. Most of the book appears to take place in the unformed realms of Chaos, with lots of rolling waves of indeterminate matter. And I loved the plot type but could not make myself care about a single one of the characters.

I will sit here envying the cheap Planet Ladders.

[oyceter]

I think I am going to go back for Planet Ladder. Hooboy...

My excuse will be that I need to take back books to sell tomorrow.

[greenapple2004.livejournal.com]

Mouryou Kiden, I am afraid, has gorgeous character designs and NO BACKGROUNDS. I am not kidding. Most of the book appears to take place in the unformed realms of Chaos, with lots of rolling waves of indeterminate matter.

Yeah, the excuse of "We're in the land of mists, blah blah blah" only works for so long, and then you're just confused the rest of the time. And then the mists go away, and you still can't figure out what the hell is going on. *sigh*

[hysteriachan.livejournal.com]

. . . you have used bookstores with manga? *envies*

Good haul! ^^

[oyceter]

Usually not! Usually they have a very, very poor selection of used manga that consist of vol. 16 of Ranma and a few vols. of Mai the Psychic Girl.