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ceruseeI can only sit around my apartment reading library graphic novels so long before my butt starts to hurt and I go stir-crazy, so one of the ways I fill my copious free time this summer is by wandering around Boston (or Cambridge and Somerville) and window shopping and developing massive and disgusting blisters all over my feet. Harvard Square is particularly awesome for this sort of thing (although it often leads to me buying things like frozen yogurt or falafel sandwiches or books, which defeats the purpose of wandering around Boston as a cheap, calorie-burning form of entertainment).
I particularly like to hit up the Harvard Book Store, because they have a nice selection of used books and remainders in their basement. I've been there about four times before and never bought anything, but fifth time's the charm--this time, I found used copies of Secret Comics Japan, the old, large-size printing of Shirow's Dominion (it was marginally cheaper for half the price of the original printing than the full price for the new printing), and--this is the one that made me cackle with glee as I stepped out into the street, the proud new owner of it--a copy of Pineapple Army, which is story by some other guy, but art by Urasawa Naoki (I didn't even know it had ever been published in English)! I am one step closer to owning the complete works of Urasawa! Now I just need all of Happy, the rest of Monster, all of 20th Century Boys, all of Pluto, all of Master Keaton, and all of Yawara.
There was also a copy of an old Viz magazine with a Nishi Keiko story--I think it was called Promise?--translated and with an introduction by Matt Thorn, which I stupidly did not buy on the assumption that it would surely duplicate material in my recent acquisition of Love Song. Now that I'm home and have checked, I think it actually didn't. I'll read Love Song tonight and go check again tomorrow.
I particularly like to hit up the Harvard Book Store, because they have a nice selection of used books and remainders in their basement. I've been there about four times before and never bought anything, but fifth time's the charm--this time, I found used copies of Secret Comics Japan, the old, large-size printing of Shirow's Dominion (it was marginally cheaper for half the price of the original printing than the full price for the new printing), and--this is the one that made me cackle with glee as I stepped out into the street, the proud new owner of it--a copy of Pineapple Army, which is story by some other guy, but art by Urasawa Naoki (I didn't even know it had ever been published in English)! I am one step closer to owning the complete works of Urasawa! Now I just need all of Happy, the rest of Monster, all of 20th Century Boys, all of Pluto, all of Master Keaton, and all of Yawara.
There was also a copy of an old Viz magazine with a Nishi Keiko story--I think it was called Promise?--translated and with an introduction by Matt Thorn, which I stupidly did not buy on the assumption that it would surely duplicate material in my recent acquisition of Love Song. Now that I'm home and have checked, I think it actually didn't. I'll read Love Song tonight and go check again tomorrow.
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on 2008-06-18 01:39 am (UTC)I am flashing back to wandering around Boston my one visit there, first year of high school. The romantic buildings and streetcarts and people with accents I could not understand! It was like Europe to me. Wanna go baaaack.
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on 2008-06-18 02:18 am (UTC)What kind of accents? Boston accents? Or other accents? We do have a reasonably sundry population of immigrants!
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on 2008-06-18 03:58 am (UTC)daysmonths. ^-^;;no subject
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