From: miles@gnu.org   
      
   Ping Kuo  writes:   
   > check my spelling, yes you are correct.  most use Otsuichi as one word,   
   > I thought it is funny because his pen name simply means "B 1".   
      
   Yeah it's a bit weird ... I always assumed it was a pen-name...   
      
   > and yes, of the 4 novels I read from him I like Goth the best, because   
   > it is also the darkest, Death Notes, by comparsion, is just cruel kids   
   > playing a game w/ superpower, there are evil, and there are EVIL.   
      
   I've mainly read his horror novels ... didn't read Goth yet (though I   
   bought it).   
      
   Maybe my favorite book of his is actually his first one (which he wrote   
   when he was 16 years old!!) called roughly "Summer, Fireworks, and my   
   Dead Body".  It's actually two short novellas in one volume; the first   
   is fun, charming, with a creepy twist at the end, and the 2nd story is   
   just completely creepy and chilling.   
      
   [I knew "Death Notes" was a famous manga, but never read it, and I   
   didn't know he actually wrote it!!!  Maybe worth checking out...]   
      
   I'm very happy for a discussion of him, since I'm a big fan !!   
      
   -Miles   
   --   
   Come now, if we were really planning to harm you, would we be waiting here,   
    beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)