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Oct. 5th, 2006 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
farlaSo I've been reading Battle Royale online. I've read a couple of books in the stores when some sick nice person had already removed the plastic wrap (because I'm too much of a wuss to do so myself), and in a nutshell, it's not something I wanted lying around or rereading. But it's actually good/interesting storywise, so I want to read it that first time.
Unfortunately, I'm having downloading issues and can't torrent it. Instead I'm reading it off a site that lets you read page by page. This is a bit time consuming. Now, that's okay for something like, say, Chobits, where if you spend an extra minute or two on the page, well, I really should pay more attention to small artistic details.
Unfortunately, Battle Royale is not the sort of thing you want to be starting at. There are a very large number of pages that are best read with a glance and a very fast turning of a page. Even if the start of a page is fine, there's no way of know that the rest of it is not some graphic violence. (The author seems to particularly enjoy rendering eyes popping out)
...yeah, I'm starting to think it might not be great for my peace of mind.
Moving on because I feel like it, I'm not really sure what to make of reviews of PR, besides that I'm going to have to reupload Ch1 with a far more explicit author's note. Like don't post spoilers for later chapters because not everyone's read it before and things like that. I've decided to be happy that a number of readers don't seem to have a clear memory of the story, given that I feel better with them not remembering my screwups. Warlorn-chan seems to have decided he wins if he can just be insane enough, so his reviews have been a wonder of...I'm not really sure. I don't think even Orwell foresaw that there'd be a need for a word describing whatever though process lies behind 'having already read the story, complaining about something that's addressed in the next chapter'.
On the brighter side, it looks like it'll be more editable than I was thinking. There's a lot of changes in the way things are portrayed at the start and the end, so editing the early chapters to bring them more in line with later ones should work out okay. Hopefully.
Unfortunately, I'm having downloading issues and can't torrent it. Instead I'm reading it off a site that lets you read page by page. This is a bit time consuming. Now, that's okay for something like, say, Chobits, where if you spend an extra minute or two on the page, well, I really should pay more attention to small artistic details.
Unfortunately, Battle Royale is not the sort of thing you want to be starting at. There are a very large number of pages that are best read with a glance and a very fast turning of a page. Even if the start of a page is fine, there's no way of know that the rest of it is not some graphic violence. (The author seems to particularly enjoy rendering eyes popping out)
...yeah, I'm starting to think it might not be great for my peace of mind.
Moving on because I feel like it, I'm not really sure what to make of reviews of PR, besides that I'm going to have to reupload Ch1 with a far more explicit author's note. Like don't post spoilers for later chapters because not everyone's read it before and things like that. I've decided to be happy that a number of readers don't seem to have a clear memory of the story, given that I feel better with them not remembering my screwups. Warlorn-chan seems to have decided he wins if he can just be insane enough, so his reviews have been a wonder of...I'm not really sure. I don't think even Orwell foresaw that there'd be a need for a word describing whatever though process lies behind 'having already read the story, complaining about something that's addressed in the next chapter'.
On the brighter side, it looks like it'll be more editable than I was thinking. There's a lot of changes in the way things are portrayed at the start and the end, so editing the early chapters to bring them more in line with later ones should work out okay. Hopefully.
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Date: 2006-10-06 03:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-06 05:53 pm (UTC)I'd like to read the novel, as I've heard it's better (as well as not suffering from Tokyopop's it's a reality TV show, really! With, uh, completely invisible cameras. And a command center that doesn't watch the cameras. No, really. We wouldn't stupidly attempt to rewrite the dialogue ignoring the fact that the pictures stay the same! thing.) but novels don't have a massive lobby of semi-insane fans who dedicate themselves to making it accessible to ever-growing numbers of people. Who, I might add, I totally support.
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Date: 2006-10-06 09:03 pm (UTC)Urgh. Good point. I have a pretty strong tolerance for violence, but the part where that kid got his face blown in half by the crazy organizer guy before the game even started, that made me go "...nnngh" a bit.
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Date: 2006-10-07 02:02 pm (UTC)