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Absolute Sandman Vol. 1 - やっと手に入った！！！

Posted 2006-11-14 (火) 午後11:26 by terra

Finally got my hands on the first volume of The Absolute Sandman!

This is one of the most gorgeous books I have ever laid my hands on. And I thought The Photographer’s Led Zeppelin was yummy. XD

Firstly, it’s humongous!! The graphic novels feel so miniscule in comparison. Definitely not something you’d want to take out of the house — but that’s the point of a collector’s book anyway, duh.

Secondly, the recolouring work is amazing. The graphic novels look so drab when put side by side. Additionally, the printing paper used is so much better; everything seems to pop and come alive now.

The only negative thing I can say about it for now is that when I took my book out of the slipcase, I found some nasty little weird cardboard remains sticking to the leather case of the book. I think it’s something leftover from preprocessing that wasn’t removed thoroughly. Such a pain to remove! There’s some very tiny patches of sticky patches left. Not very noticeable but I shall have to find some way to clean it. Anyone knows what’s the best way to gently clean leather? I hate being such a nitpicker but I can’t help it ‘cos I have the collector’s syndrome.

Subjects: Books 書物

Mood: Gratifications, Raves and Rants

Tags: Amazon, BK1, book, Neil Gaiman, Sandman

FFVII Advent Children Japanese DVD

Posted 2005-06-22 (水) 午前12:49 by terra

Happened to be at the Amazon website looking at Kyou Kara Maou stuff when I saw the link to the Advent Children DVD page As usual Japanese DVDs are ridiculously expensive.

Can’t wait for this movie to be out, especially with Sakurai Takahito

Thought I’d just post the specs from the Amazon site here (additional English comments in bold added by me):

内容紹介

【ストーリー】

あの戦いから2年。繁栄の極みにあった魔洸都市「ミッドガル」は廃墟と化したが、人々は再建への道を確実に歩んでいた。だが、「星痕症候群」と呼ばれる謎の病が人々を苛む。治療法もなく、冒された者を次々と死に至らしめるこの病は、希望を取り戻しつつあった人々の新たな脅威となった。デリバリーサービスを営みながら孤児と共に静かに暮らしていたクラウドは、先の戦いで大事な仲間達を失ってしまった心の傷に胸をいため、深い自戒と罪の念に心を閉ざしていた。ある日、クラウドに仕事を依頼する一本の電話が入る。依頼内容は、カダージュと呼ばれる男からの護衛を依頼するものだった。若く、凶暴なカダージュ達。やがて彼らの魔の手は、クラウドと共に住んでいた孤児たちにも伸びる。その目的は何なのか。何故クラウドを狙うのか。避けようのない戦いを前に思い悩むクラウド。「罪って許されるのか？」長き葛藤の末、戦いの決意を固めるクラウド。ついに、カダージュ達との、人知を超えた戦いが幕を開ける。

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: Amazon, Cloud クラウド, DVD, Final Fantasy, Morikawa Toshiyuki 森川智之, Sakurai Takahiro 櫻井孝宏, seiyuu 声優

Minor gratification

Posted 2002-07-04 (木) 午後11:50 by terra

Minority Report was amazing. I’m going straight to the library tomorrow to satisfy my PKDickien needs. Hopefully Valis and Albemuth are there. There’s one line in the show that was driving me nuts: “There is no minority report”. I’ve heard/read that line somewhere before. No, it wasn’t a website or anything that one I’m certain cos I haven’t been searching to read stuff on the show/book on the Internet. On the other hand it may be that I’m a potential precog after all. =P

From one Science Fiction story to another: I just can’t get through reading Neuromancer. Honestly, it’s been description overkill. 50 pages into the book no hint of a plot has emerged. The Amazon review pages are pretty interesting. There are those who stand by the book altogether, others whom like me feel the same way. Anyways…back to the library shelves it goes.

Subjects: Books 書物

Mood: Gratifications

Tags: Amazon, library, Minority Report, PKD, precog, science fiction

Issac Asimov-obsession

Posted 2002-02-14 (木) 午後9:10 by terra

As you can probably tell from the side panel of this page, I’m having an obsession with Issac Asimov books right now On my wish list is the entire Robot Series which includes, in series order: I, Robot, The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn and finally Robots and Empire. I’ve already read all of these books but they’re so good that I have to own them. I’m probably going to order the first 4 books from Acmabooks.com which is this pretty decent Singapore online bookstore.Unfortunately Robots and Empire appears to be out-of-print. The only places I can get a copy at reasonable prices are Amazon UK and some Australian bookstores.

I also discovered to my horror that my Foundation series (which I’m currently re-reading) is incomplete. It’s missing Foundation and Earth, the last book in the series, which is another out-of-print book. How did I know this? By accident actually. I was ..ahem.. downloading (illegally) some ebook versions of the Foundation series so that I could read them on my computer if I didn’t have my book with me, when I noticed one book that I didn’t have. At least it’s comforting to know that it’s quite possible to buy the book online even though it’s probably impossible to get new copies of them direct from the bookstores in Singapore.