dvo finished reading The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer
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My favourite part of every book is the front matter. The forewords, the introductions, everything but the book. I like how books relate to other books, and how they form a personal constellation.
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dvo finished reading Appleseed Book 3 by Masamune SHIROW
dvo finished reading The Eternaut by Francisco Solano Lopez
The Eternaut by Francisco Solano Lopez, Hector German Oesterheld
This is a psychedelically drawn, boldly political retelling of the 1950s graphic novel The Eternaut, whose imagery is still used …
dvo started reading Selected poems [of] Mervyn Peake. by Mervyn Peake (Faber paperbacks)
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Selected poems [of] Mervyn Peake. by Mervyn Peake (Faber paperbacks)
dvo finished reading The Colossus & Other Poems by Sylvia Plath
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On a visceral level I loved it though I can't say I understood half of it
dvo finished reading The G.N.B Double C by Seth
The G.N.B Double C by Seth
THE COMPANION GRAPHIC NOVEL TO WIMBLEDON GREEN
Whenever you're in Dominion, on Milverton Street you will stumble across an arresting …
dvo started reading The G.N.B Double C by Seth
The G.N.B Double C by Seth
THE COMPANION GRAPHIC NOVEL TO WIMBLEDON GREEN
Whenever you're in Dominion, on Milverton Street you will stumble across an arresting …
Only Dashiell Hammet could have created the swift, breathless suspense and excitement of this great …
I finished the first major story arc. In no way do you see the end coming, it just kind of happens. The story itself is inconsequential, but the art is fantastic. Clothes, poses, hair, expressions. Raymond is a master.
dvo started reading The Silent World by Jacques Yves Cousteau
As an object, my 1954 copy is one of my favourite books in my library. To me, it has the quintessential book smell. It's got a beautiful dust jacket and it's roughly pocket sized. Best $5 I've ever spent.
dvo finished reading Delirius by Jacques Lob (Lone Sloane, #2)
Delirius by Jacques Lob, Philippe Druillet (Lone Sloane, #2)
With a bounty on his head and an armada at his heels, Lone Sloane--the notorious interstellar explorer--finds himself lured to …
dvo finished reading The Lady of Pharis, Book Two by Akihiro Yamada
dvo finished reading Shades of Death by Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo, #8)
Shades of Death by Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo, #8)
Revisit some of the rabbit ronin's earliest adventures in this outstanding new edition of classic Usagi tales! In this volume, …
dvo finished reading The Lady of Pharis, Book One by Akihiro Yamada (Record of Lodoss War, #1)
There was a time when Lodoss Island was pure and the forces of light and …
The storytelling can feel a bit disjointed. Motivations are loosely sketched out. I think it works in service of the air of mythology Mizuno and Yamada are trying to cultivate. Yamada's art is some of the best I've ever seen.
dvo started reading The Lady of Pharis, Book One by Akihiro Yamada (Record of Lodoss War, #1)
There was a time when Lodoss Island was pure and the forces of light and …
Finally found a physical copy.