So, guess what? I got two new books! and it's not even Christmas yet! I got them after I learned some hard piano music in waaay too little time, so yay! Anyway, the books in question are the first and third books in the "Haruhi Suzumiya" series. They were first published in Japan and were a huge sensation. I got the hardcover versions with the original cover art, so I'm pretty excited! I thought I'd review them and compare them to the anime they spawned since I can't get any of my video games to do what I want, so here it goes.

So, the first book, "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" starts off with our narrator, a 10th grader who's nickname is Kyon, telling us about how he never believed in Santa Claus, but he actually did believe in cartoon heroes, villans and such until fairly recently. He then comences to tell the story of his first year in high school. Everything starts out normal, with the entrance cerimony and what not, but things take a decidedly strange turn when the class is introducing themselves. After Kyon gives his little speech-thing, the girl behind him stands up. She indroduces herself as Haruhi Suzumiya and tells everyone that she's not interested in normal humans; that she only wants to acosiate with the strange and supernatural. This throws everyone for a loop, but Kyon manages to become friends with Haruhi eventually. He ends up helping Haruhi form a school club called the SOS Brigade, or "the Saving the world by Overloading it with fun Haruhi Suzumiya Brigade" It turns out that Haurhi has some strange type of power that no one understands and that she doesn't know about, so lots of strange things happen around her and her brigade.

That's the gist of the book. It's a really good book, over all. I'll probably write the review for the second book and the anime comparison later, because right now, my head is killing me. I'll post that up when I can. Until then,

Ja ne!