From: cheatwarrior@gamebox.net
In article <1186947943.378560.124310@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
julio wrote:
> This is way late, but I only got the book three days ago myself.
> Anyway, others may be interested too...
> So, yes, it's good. It's Adachi, so you know pretty much what to
> expect. If you like his work, you'll like this. It is a big book
> (312 pages, including about 22 in color, printed on very nice paper).
> My only concern is that it includes the first three chapers of the
> pseudo series "Idol A" which he has been doing for Yong Sunday on a
> very casual basis (like, one episode a year), and I didn't care much
> for the first one when I read it in scanlation, but maybe it gets
> better later on.
> Anyway, the first two stories are typical Adachi romantic stuff; the
> fourth is a long one in two parts, a cute New Year's Eve mystery
> involving a girl with amnesia and a gun, with a neat resolution that I
> found amusing and unexpected. I haven't read the fifth and sixth
> stories yet. The seventh one is the three chapters of "Idol A", and
> the eighth and ninth stories are really short, four pages each: one,
> an homage to somebody, and the other one a cute almost wordless middle-
> school romance in full color.
> As for the third story ("Angel's Hammer"), it is quite dramatic and
> very different from the others. Very sad, and with a rather
> unexpected, tragic twist at the end; but an excellent short story, one
> of the best ones I've seen in any medium. I found it devastating, but
> I'd still recommend it highly, as an example of a master storyteller
> at his best.
Great, sounds like a book I'll be getting sometime in the near future.
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Diolch,
Vardak the Minotaur Paladin.
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