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Translated from the Japanese. Originally published in 1970-1971.
The End, the sixth and final book, reflects back on the personal fallout from the earlier volumes, with Knausgaard facing …
@peoplelikebooks I think it is normal now. I am going to keep going and see where I end.
Next year I am not going to set a numeric goal, I am going to try to read some things deeply, maybe: Gravity’s Rainbow, Ulysses, Brothers Karamazov, and Gene Wolfe’s Urth Cycle, and Le Guin’s Hainish novels.
Bookwyrm is marking the whole series as read. Alright, I will read them all.
The second one (Future) was incredibly moving.
Nothing I have read in this Tezuka binge has been emotionally easy but it is all nourishing, even at its darkest.
When I started the binge I watched a video by a guy who trying to read his entire huge manga collection in a year. He spent a week reading Tezuka and kept reporting that each thing he read was a greater masterpiece than the last. Yes, that tracks. I loved him before but I only really knew Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion from my childhood. And Ode to Kirihito and MW as an adult reader. Those are all amazing in their own right. But going deeper into his work and feeling the entire range of emotions it can evoke, I am now convinced that his work …
Bookwyrm is marking the whole series as read. Alright, I will read them all.
The second one (Future) was incredibly moving.
Nothing I have read in this Tezuka binge has been emotionally easy but it is all nourishing, even at its darkest.
When I started the binge I watched a video by a guy who trying to read his entire huge manga collection in a year. He spent a week reading Tezuka and kept reporting that each thing he read was a greater masterpiece than the last. Yes, that tracks. I loved him before but I only really knew Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion from my childhood. And Ode to Kirihito and MW as an adult reader. Those are all amazing in their own right. But going deeper into his work and feeling the entire range of emotions it can evoke, I am now convinced that his work can stand toe-to-toe with any artist in any medium when it comes to saying something about the human condition. And there’s still a lot more of it for me to discover…
🥳🎈🎊🍾🎉 100 books!
"With grand historical sweep, this self-contained opening volume of Osamu Tezuka's acclaimed Phoenix saga is an epic account of the …
"With grand historical sweep, this self-contained opening volume of Osamu Tezuka's acclaimed Phoenix saga is an epic account of the …
Opening a few years after the end of World War II and covering almost a quarter-century, here is comics master …
Opening a few years after the end of World War II and covering almost a quarter-century, here is comics master …
It is not all a slog. There is a nice romantic moment leading up to him confessing his love for his second wife. He even fainted when they kissed. The closest I have ever come to romantic fainting is crashing a Bixi when falling in love and falling down in the street when getting dumped over a text message.
I find myself relating to some of the stuff in this novel in a cringey way. These ruminations about a certain set of authors riffing on nihilism, Stockholm, and Borges have all bounced around in my head too at points too, lol.
This is gonna be hard for me to read since I am reading it off one of those manga reading sites.
The punch line of the first chapter made me burst out in laughter in middle of a quiet cafe.
