If you liked the anime, you will likely find that this is better. If you felt that the anime was flawed, you may well find that the book is not, or not in the same way.
The story is slow, with a great deal of explanations and musings, especially in the beginning; it’s trying to paint an entire world, and that shows. It is the sort of thing that is very difficult to adapt to an animated format. The book, however, was well worth the read.
Only the first volume is out yet, the second to come in July.
Floornight, nostalgebraist (recommended on SSC; overall cool—interesting concepts and developments and various bright spots compensate for some of the issues like pacing and wooden writing)
My husband translated some verses by Houseman into Ukrainian (biocherv.livejournal.com, tag Гаусман), just because he is loved by me and one other LW-reader:)
Fiction Books Thread
Log Horizon
If you liked the anime, you will likely find that this is better. If you felt that the anime was flawed, you may well find that the book is not, or not in the same way.
The story is slow, with a great deal of explanations and musings, especially in the beginning; it’s trying to paint an entire world, and that shows. It is the sort of thing that is very difficult to adapt to an animated format. The book, however, was well worth the read.
Only the first volume is out yet, the second to come in July.
Ready Player One, Cline 2011 (review)
A Shropshire Lad, Housman 1896 (review)
Floornight, nostalgebraist (recommended on SSC; overall cool—interesting concepts and developments and various bright spots compensate for some of the issues like pacing and wooden writing)
My husband translated some verses by Houseman into Ukrainian (biocherv.livejournal.com, tag Гаусман), just because he is loved by me and one other LW-reader:)
Edit: Houseman is loved by me and the LW-reader.
nostalgebraist has started work on a new novel, The Northern Caves. It’s off to a slow start, but looks interesting so far.