yeah, I'm holding off, too, and also trying to be good. I totally did not ask her for them, and feel kind of awkward going, "gosh thanks, but I was okay waiting, actually". It's rejecting a well-meant gift, you know? Like the time my straight-edge parents got married and all their hippie friends pooled up to give them a big bag of pot. Two days before they were going to drive to Louisiana. With NY license plates. In the seventies.
If I'd realized that the third novel was out already, I might have put off the anime, but I was seriously craving more story, and I have just hit the point in the anime where it starts mixing in stuff from novels beyond the ones I've read, so if I stop and read any more books now, I'll end up being seriously confused by the re-sequencing of stuff I already know, and characters being places and meeting people that they shouldn't.
Yeah, I have oodles and oodles of love for Taiki, but even though my full-on adoration for the whole thing didn't hit until I was done with Sea of Wind, I think Sea of Shadows is a good way to start the story, because Yoko and Yoko's arc are just so fabulous. Clearly the animators agreed, although they seemed to think it somehow needed HELP and in that they are MAD.
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on 2009-11-17 02:54 am (UTC)yeah, I'm holding off, too, and also trying to be good. I totally did not ask her for them, and feel kind of awkward going, "gosh thanks, but I was okay waiting, actually". It's rejecting a well-meant gift, you know? Like the time my straight-edge parents got married and all their hippie friends pooled up to give them a big bag of pot. Two days before they were going to drive to Louisiana. With NY license plates. In the seventies.If I'd realized that the third novel was out already, I might have put off the anime, but I was seriously craving more story, and I have just hit the point in the anime where it starts mixing in stuff from novels beyond the ones I've read, so if I stop and read any more books now, I'll end up being seriously confused by the re-sequencing of stuff I already know, and characters being places and meeting people that they shouldn't.
Yeah, I have oodles and oodles of love for Taiki, but even though my full-on adoration for the whole thing didn't hit until I was done with Sea of Wind, I think Sea of Shadows is a good way to start the story, because Yoko and Yoko's arc are just so fabulous. Clearly the animators agreed, although they seemed to think it somehow needed HELP and in that they are MAD.