Recommend your favourite book / movie / CD / anime!
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What are your favourite books, DVDs, cartoon / tv series etc? (including Japanese / Korean / Chinese stuff!) What would you like to see more in our libraries? Do share them here -
Good evening SL.
Favourite ah? Too many leh. Greedy lah. Si mi also like.
But okay, "tork lai" lah.
Fav book = Singapore Cooking
Movie = erm....really too many leh
CD = any of Phil Chang Yu
Anime = hmm pak kua -
anime? Return of the Overfiend
okay okay.. just kidding
books... i have strange tastes... but i like books which make you think... my fave books are:
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
a look into the lives of mathematicians in history loosely tied together by Fermat's Last Theorem, the most difficult mathematical puzzle in the history of mathematics... and how a mathematician named Andrew Wiles solved it in the single-minded way only mathematicians know how... it's a book any layman can pick up and will be pulled into the romance (yes!! romance!) that is the obsession with mathematics...
Totto-chan: The Little Girl At The Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
this is how a school should be.. where children learn to learn and love learning, unfettered by conventions and where the optimism and love of the headmaster is so great, most would be humbled by his enthusiasm and courage towards facing life and its many challenges...
The Captain is Out To Lunch and The Sailors Have Taken Over The Ship by Charles Bukowski (illustrated by Robert Crumb)
do NOT read this book if you are depressed.. but Bukowski gives us a glimpse into his life and it is not a pretty sight.. it is strange that one of America's greatest writers would live a life like that, but he is unapologetic about his life, his regrets, his mistakes and all that he is... not for the faint hearted...
(these are off the top of my head... there are many many more)
p.s. i'll write about others in a while -
movies...
fave movie of ALL TIME..
Casablanca
Rick Blaine, runs a gin-joint in Casablanca. And one day, in walks his old flame, Ilsa and his life is turned upside-down. In the backdrop of World War II, where the Nazis are ruining everything, and Lisbon is the place where everyone is running to, Ilsa's husband, resistance leader, Victor Laszlo needs to go to. In the end, his love for Ilsa leads him to offer her husband the last remaining exit visa out of the place, for he knows he has no place in their lives, even if Ilsa wants to stay.
"I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid..."
other movies i love...
Pulp Fiction
Lost in Translation
Metropolis
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Anime...
what else?
Cowboy Bebop (The Perfect Sessions)
Two space cowboys, bounty hunters, on a decrepit ship, The Bebop, roam the spaceways hunting down bounties.
Perpetually broke, Jet Black, self-professed philosopher and ex-policeman, waxes lyrical sometimes on the Bebop. Careful and rock-steady he is the one isle of sanity in the sometimes insane world of bounty hunting.
Spike Spiegel, loose cannon, "all instinct" and fellow bounty hunter with Jet, he's running from a past that threatens to catch up with him.
Along the way, they pick up Faye Valentine, gambler, femme fatale, bounty hunter. She's bad news, a bad attitude but ultimately, a heart of gold, even if she has a weird way of showing it.
They also pick up Ed, androgynous little girl and champion hacker, she is a "fan of the exploits of The Bebop" and follows them.
It starts out cheerful and lighthearted but there is a darkness in the series and somewhere, their desperation of running from the past becomes evident as it catches up with them to a tragic end.
With a background music supplied by the wonderful Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts, everything fuses into an addictively watchable series.
then, there's
Rurouni Kenshin
Kenshin Himura, leaving his violent and bloody past as an master assassin or Battousai the Slasher, seeks to atone for the blood on his hands and a vow he would rather lose his life upholding than break, carries a reverse-edged sword and wanders around Japan.
He finds a home in the compound of a Dojo, owned by Miss Kaoru. In his adventures, he comes across revolutionaries, rebels, officials, his assassin successor and he tries his hardest to bring peace where his sword brought about war and revolution.
And along the way, he makes friends for life in a fighter for hire Sanosuke who carried the huge Zenbattou sword, Megumi, a healer who loved him in vain and Yahiko who is Kaoru's first disciple of the Dojo...
A total of 95 episode but in the Boxed Set, there is an additional 96th episode which is a wonderfully touching and subtle ending to the series, when the world of Kenshin is finally at peace, and he finally refers to the woman he loves and who loves him right back tenderly by her name.
These two are Must-Haves in any collection -
Too many stuff I'd love to recommend and I'll just type them in here as and when I think of them, ok?
I think your library should get the DVD of the Japanese blockbuster hit, "Quill". It traces the life of a puppy right till its adulthood, what it had to go through to become a guide-dog for the blind.
It's soooo touching, there won't be a dry eye after watching it!
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Jason keeps talking about Kenshin... but I've yet to watch that!
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Watched this one, have to agree with you, some funny scenes though, the ending was the most "cham" one.Originally posted by Rhonda:Too many stuff I'd love to recommend and I'll just type them in here as and when I think of them, ok?
I think your library should get the DVD of the Japanese blockbuster hit, "Quill". It traces the life of a puppy right till its adulthood, what it had to go through to become a guide-dog for the blind.
It's soooo touching, there won't be a dry eye after watching it!
Dog lovers and animal lovers will LOVE the movie!
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Book - karmasutra..(this is a no brainer)
Movie - LOTR or Troy..(I love epic battles)
CD - Burn myself one can anot?
Anime - FMP fumoffu/Green Green/Bleach and many more.. 
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Book- anything by jessica adams preferably cool for cats
movie- the crow
Anime- Konijiko no gashbell, shaman king -
Movie: Interstellar 5555 or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
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This just came into the library!
Storyline:
Tohru Honda was an orphan, living with her grandfather, when one day fate kicked her out of the house and she was forced to take up residence in a tent in the forest. Little did she know that the land she was staying on belonged to the Sohma family, a clan of beautiful and mysterious people. After stumbling upon the teenage squatter, the Sohmas invite Tohru to stay in their house in exchange for cooking and cleaning. Everything's going well until she discovers the Sohma family's greatest secret: when hugged by members of the opposite sex, they each turn into their Chinese Zodiac animal! -
Anime: Bleach! at the momment
Book: Hmm..Robert Ludlum types.. -
My current bedside (and toilet) reading:
The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatjie
I haven't watched the movie ... but the book sure is good .... I'm a sucker for love stories .... -
I like Agatha Christie's novels, especially those featuring Hercule Poirot.
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FULL METAL ALCHEMIST anime!!!!!!
Omgomg. You guys MUST watch it. After watching this, it spurred me to watch more animes. -
Interstella 5555
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what about some really weird stuff?
Foreign movies like Tetsuo - Iron Man? -
where in sydney are you?
Ayori Ayoshi - the best anime series ever.
No violent rubbish or any of that junk.
It's just human relations, and the purity of love.
Sweetest show I've ever watched on a screen -
nice n meaningful animeOriginally posted by SydneyLibrarian:This just came into the library!
Storyline:
Tohru Honda was an orphan, living with her grandfather, when one day fate kicked her out of the house and she was forced to take up residence in a tent in the forest. Little did she know that the land she was staying on belonged to the Sohma family, a clan of beautiful and mysterious people. After stumbling upon the teenage squatter, the Sohmas invite Tohru to stay in their house in exchange for cooking and cleaning. Everything's going well until she discovers the Sohma family's greatest secret: when hugged by members of the opposite sex, they each turn into their Chinese Zodiac animal! -
My all-time favourite coffee-table book - 'A Passion For Flowers', by Carolyn Roehm.
And this book's a great basic intro to the Japanese culture!
There are tons of stuff I'd love to recommend ... gimme time to mull over it. Will be returning here time and again! [/img] -
I didn't know Rhonda was the type who had a thing for flowers..Hmmm..
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stella, you don't know the first thing about me!Originally posted by stellazio:I didn't know Rhonda was the type who had a thing for flowers..Hmmm.. pthpthpth!! -
Cause it seems so unlikely..Originally posted by Rhonda:stella, you don't know the first thing about me! pthpthpth!! -
everyone should have a library of comics in the house.. or a houseful of comics in the library
and the Asterix series is second to none!