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The Box Man by Kōbō Abe

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



Dafuq Did I just read? O.o

The most confusing book I've ever read. Probably I should read it again as at the end it seemed that the book is nonlinear. Although it took me fairly one month (!) to read this book. The less than first half went just fine and I really liked how a person became a box man and the elaborate design of the box it self, I thought the book would be fantastic. But unfortunately after that I started to loose the grip. Probably because the version I read didn't have any chapter marks and all the text was as a single chapter. And there were a lot of nudity in the text which I do not find that attractive. There was a description of a nurse's getting naked comprising several pages!! Probably not my level yet... After that I left the book on my desk for more than a week. Then I almost lost all interest in it, until couple days ago.... :\



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Revi: Hey chniglish. Want a job? You get to kill a whole lot of dipshits.
Shenhua: I'll be happy to skin you for free, slut.
Revi: Jesus, what's with the attitude.

Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail দেখলাম। যদিও দুইবছর আগের টাইটেল কিন্তু ইংলিশ ডাব এর জন্য ওয়েট করাতে এত দেরি হল দেখতে।

আগের সিজনের মত অস্থির ডায়ালগ বেশ কম। রক এর ক্যার‍্যাক্টার এ যে চেঞ্জটা এনেছে সেটাও বেশ মজাদার। এইভাবে চলতে থাকলে মনে হয় সিরিজটাকে আরো অনেকদূর নেয়া সম্ভব। আর একটা দিক, রবার্টা মনে হয় আর কখনোই আসবে না সিরিজটাতে, তার গল্পের এখানেই সমাপ্তি। অবশ্য আমি প্রথম সিজনের কিডন্যাপিকং আর্ক এর পরই এই ক্যার‍্যাক্টার আবার আসবে এটা আশা করলেও এভাবে আসবে ভাবি নাই।

তবে, আগের দুইটা সিজনই রোজার মধ্যে দেখার উপযোগী না (Don't get me wrong. শুধুমাত্র গালাগালির কারনে)। আর এই সিজন এসেছে ওভিএ ফরম্যাট এ। তো বুঝতেই পারছেন!! তবে টু বি অনেস্ট, FLCL এর পর একমাত্র এই ওভিএটাকেই আমি রেকমেন্ডেবল বলতে পারি (And yes, I have watched Hellsing Ultimate) কমিক রিলিফগুলো আগেরবারের মতই সুন্দর করে করা হয়েছে। এবং ফাইটিং অবশ্যই অভার দা টপ এন্ড অফ কোর্স লজিকলেস। আমি যখন প্রথম সিজন দেখেছিলা তখন অনেক লজিক খুজেছিলাম সিরিজটাতে, সেকেন্ড সিজনে এসে বাদ দিয়ে দিয়েছি আর মজা পেয়েছি +_+ । তবে এই আর্কে মজাও সেই তুলনায় কম। কিন্তু চলে।

প্রথম তিন পর্বে রবার্টার হার্ডকোর পার্ফর্মেন্স এর পর পঞ্চম পর্বে আবার মেইড আউটফিটে আসা তা খুব একটা ভালো লাগে নাই। ফ্যান সার্ভিস ফ্যান সার্ভিস মনে হইসে। T_T

আর ডাবটার ব্যাপারটা বলতেই হয়। আমি বেশিরভাগ সময়ই ডাব দেখার পর সাব টা চালু করে দেখি (ডুয়াল অডিও এনকোড আরকি )। এটার জাপানিজ অডিওটাতে দেখলাম লাভলেস ফ্যামিলি এর আরেক পিচ্চি মেইড ফ্যাবিওলাকে 'শ্রিম্প' বলে ডাকে পুরা এনিমেতে। কিন্তু ইংলিশটা বলেছে Minimaid যা চরম হাসির, অন্যদিকে Shenhua কে জাপানিজ ভার্সনে Revi তার নাম ধরে ডাকলেও এখানে দেকেছে Chinglish (Cninese+English) হিসাবে। আর রেভির ডায়ালগ ডেলিভারি দেখলে অনেকটা টারান্টিনো আর গাই রিচি এর ফিল্মে বিভিন্ন গ্যাংস্টার এর ডায়ালগ ডেলিভারি এর কথা মনে পরে। হুইচ ইজ অসাম। আফটার অল, ইটজ অল এবাউট ডায়ালগস।

"I appreciate the help. But after all these is finished and my hunt is complete, I'll reward you with a painless death."

 

১। Serial Experiments Lian (১৯৯৮ মনে হয়)
অতিরিক্ত হাই থট এর এনিমে। আমেরিকার ক্রিটিকরা বলেছে এটা নাকি Avant Garde এনিমে। কথাটা পড়ার পর উইকি ঘাটটে হয়েছে জানার জন্য Avant Garde কি জিনিস। যার মর্মার্থ হল - Post Post Modern (হাঁআআআ। দুইবার post)।
এখানে বেশ কিছু ধারনা নিয়ে আলাপ করা হয়েছে। শুরু হয়েছিল এক বাচ্চার হাতে একটা নতুন মডেলের ন্যাভি (পিসি) আসার মধ্যে দিয়ে।

শ্রেষ্ঠ গল্প by Bonoful

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



There are some excellent short stories in this collection.
One thing is sure that Bonoful wanted to give a twist at the end of the story which from my experience most of the short story writers try to give. He wanted to show the twisted nature of mankind directly.

on the other hand Rabindranath Tagore tried to narrate the story and leave the decision somewhat on the reader. But of course Rabindranath has written short stories of the first kind as well.

But both of them stayed true to what happens in the society.

On the other hand, one of my favorite writers Humayun Ahmed actually brought Magical Realism in Bengali Literature. Well, might not be true as I have not read many books altogether. In fact, I didn't even know the the term Magical Realism a year ago. My love for anime led me to read Haruki Murkami and eventually I found Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Which made me admire Humayun Ahmed even more.

Well, without straying too much, let me say the stories are enjoyable. But soon it becomes cliche when you know there will be a twist at the end. Bonoful, tries to show the nature of mankind, but he emphasized too much on the dark side of the force(!) or the person who selected the stories thinks that these will have more positive response from the readers. But there is an exception. That story named অর্জুন মন্ডল (Arjun Mandal) describes a person who started studying at the age of 40. It is the longest story in this book and it gets a 5 star. :)

Another story is at the beginning of the book named বিধাতা (God). That was excellent.

One thing to note is that Bonoful around 1976 in his story বিবর্তন (Evolution) thought that all the Hindu's of West Bengal(Calcutta) should convert to Muslims because Muslims getting more job than any Hindu. Well, in Bangladesh that was the time of political unrest (The leader was assassinated, all his colleagues were in jail and in the line of execution). But West Bengal shouldn't be like that at all. I'm not sure whether he was somewhat ethnocentric or not. It may be interesting to note that, A lot of Bangladeshi thinks that having no beard somewhat facilitates the chance of getting job, whether the job is in a public company or a private company. It is somewhat true for Private companies as they tend to show that they are "westernized" but not that true for public companies; yet the notion prevails.

When I said they always stayed true to the reality, I kind of lied. Now I remember there is a story named দুই ভিক্ষুক (Two Beggars) which narrates two beggars at a shrine.

Another story চিঠি পাওয়ার পর (After Receiving the Letter) tells the story of a person who is going to meet his long lost love for five minutes only. But unfortunately he fails. :(

There are more interesting story and his writing is very humorous. Rabindranth's humor is for a person who has a lot of time to read the things carefully but Bonoful's humor can be seeped even in a busy day. :)



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A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Well, I should've read the book several months ago. But I was lazy as well as busy. Well the book is really good. A bunch of dead souls trapped in practically infinite Library of Babel to find their life-story... This one line is needed for a person to become interested in this book.
Overall it seemed God's way of "I want to play a game....". Trapping people in a library where zillions of books. Story comprises of several things: people coming closer to each other, sharing how they died; some delusional people who thought that they had to make it a hell; couple staying billions of years together(!).. and it ended with some sort of tragedy.
I would like to quote something, "Then came centuries of agonizing thought. I knew I had not even fallen a light-year yet. I had googols and googols of of light-years to go. There is a despair that goes deeper than existence."
To be honest, first I thought it would not be a bad hell as there were tons of books to read. Then the first surprise came to me as how the books were! Also, I had pretty much an estimation how many books are there after I knew how the books were written. Turns out that this is as bad as a lot of other hells I knew about.
Although I wonder how Wand and our Hero made love two time while they were falling. -_-"
Finally, a pleasant story.
:)



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OK. I have been very frustrated with the GMP for the past couple of hours. It seems that there is no default support for GMP library for Windows as they tend to target for Unix based systems. And also the tutorials that are found on the net are somewhat outdated, wasn't written keeping the noobs, like me, in mind or the newer tutorials are not on the first page of Google. -_-"
That said, I've finally been able to prepare it for windows. And I'm writing this just to help the others like me that may be searching solution to this problem and also for a future reference to myself for such other libraries as well. Let's do it ,shall we?