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Jeffbert, that's pretty cool!

However, I think I'm going to be revolutionary in how I put my books on the internet.

I'm using a simple 40kb flash code to display "pictures" of each page. These pictures can't be downloaded, or highjacked. The user, however, doesn't need to download anything special to see them 100% free Each page has 4 advertisements so I can make some money ;D



I'm sorry I'm plugging my soon to be website - I'm opening it up Feb 1st.

I just finished Fred Ladd's Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas: an insider’s view of the birth of a pop culture phenomenon, & am now starting Timothy N. Hornyak's Loving The Machine: The Art And Science Of Japanese Robots.

Fred has given a ton of information about the adapting of Japanese cartoons to English & American standards in particular; those are things with which he was involved. But he was misinformed about other things outside his field, Melmo, for one, Dororo and Hykamaru for another.

I think I read both that and Bless the beasts and the children. I know I saw the film versions, though.

Cool! I just finished E. R. Burroughs' Caspek trilogy, & am now starting to read A Princess of Mars, also by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

I just completed Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse which was an easy, powerful read. I was surprised to see how similar it was to J. Krishnamurti's philosophy; Hermann Hesse basically shows the only way for one to achieve enlightenment is through actual experience rather than a lecture by a guru of some kind. The Siddhartha in Hesse's novel is a different character from the actual, historical Buddha. The historical Buddha in Hesse's novel is called by his last name, Gotama. However, Siddhartha (first name of Buddha yet a separate character) provides a similar tale of enlightenment in the same vein of Gotama's past journey (i.g., he rejected the caste system and sought his own means of enlightenment). Interestingly enough, the Siddhartha in this tale repudiates Gotama, for Siddhartha believes true enlightenment comes from personal experience plus following one's own path. It was an existential novel in many ways, but I personally, well as of now, believe it did a better job capturing the essence Eastern thought.

I am on volume 7 of Buddha by Tezuka right now. It is good, and it has made me interested in studying Buddhist thought. I am more interested in its actual philosophy rather than tradition (e.g., clothes + culture).

I recently finished The Plague and The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus not too long ago, and they were great. Granted, I do not want to read The Fall by Camus even though it's in my schedule. I will most likely skip this due to it's overly flashy, exuberant prose, and move onto Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil.

Finally, I have been fighting through Immanuel Kant. I am reading Kant's Prolegomena alongside a Routlidge Guide on Critique of Pure Reason. It is really my introduction to metaphysics. I chose to start with Kant because of how he reconciles empiricism and rationalism into one awesome philosophy.

I an now reading Fred Patten's book Watching Anime, Reading Manga; I am not quite at the 1/3 point. I just received an anthology of Frederick Brown's short SF stories. He wrote Arena among other things. Arena is one of, if not the most popular story among SF TV shows. Star Trek, The Outer Limits, & yes, Astroboy all have made versions of this story. I hope to start reading this book by mid-November.

BTW, sorry for the double post!