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k, i finished2 books yesterday. the first waz:
Superhero
The secret oragin of a genre, writted by peter coogan.

it waz supposed2 be,like, a collage-lvl dissertation that took him years...&it kinda shows n places.

there are many points thru-out teh book where he's repeat the exact same point as n a privious chapter,word4word, with no mention that this was also n anothr part of teh book...
that waz annoying.
however, he looks at the very earliest streatched to the limet oragins of the superhero comic...incuding drawing not just from american pulp novels of the 30s-or-so, but going back to victorian/edwaerian penny dredfulls!

he also disscusses at length the conventions of the supervillain(not just comic-ones like the red skull or dr. light, but proffessor moriarty and bond-villain dr. no)

i don't think it was well written, but it waz well-reserched. 6or7 of 10.

the sacond book:
.hack//ai buster 2


i loved the first ai buster book! it waz engaging, beautifully written, and really made me want to travel to The World.

the second is a worthy sequal, tho it's a collection of stories that do not all take place around watarai/albiero,hokuto/yates&lycoras/girl n red

i read it all n the space of a few hours...i didn't wanna put it down!!

note about ai buster 1...i thought, when i first encontered teh book, that it waz actually ai-az-n-love...but quickly realized it waz a.i.(which makes more sence, when dealing with vagrent a.i.'s....)

but 4 teh second..love buster almost makes sence...since the first couple stories dealt with the lycoras incident, which broke something in watarai. he grew to love that little girl who turned into a spider lily...who had lost the will to live.

love buster...broken because of love.heh,atash wa baka da ne?