This proves to be a strength; where "Sigh" felt padded, each story here fills exactly the space it needs, without needless re-iteration of who’s who. It was good but not great & felt just a little well, stale in comparison to how fun the first volume was. I'd had no other experience with the series other than having seen the Combat Waitress Mikuru Asahina episode once or twice, in aborted attempts to get into the anime. The four stories are pretty hit-or-miss, but the overall package is a success, even though each story is completely standalone and doesn't add up to be greater than the sum of its parts. Every time my life gets crazy, and the last thing I want to think about is reading some dense tome, I just pop open another one of these babies. So if you find a current lower price from an online retailer on an identical, in-stock product, tell us and we'll match it. by Yen On Get ready for some of the best...The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya (Haruhi Suzumiya, #3)Some of the stories in this volume are better then others, but my favorite Mysterique Sign. The third entry in the Haruhi Suzumiya series is a mixed bag quite literally, it is the first novel by Tanigawa that is composed of short stories stitched together for the purpose of publishing. But reading the second story "Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody" made me think of what I didn't think before, while watching it as an anime episode: Just how lonely a little girl could be, in order to draw huge, weird lines -which are to be interpreted by Nagato as a message that says "I am here" - on the playgrouThis volume has 4 stories of Haruhi Suzumiya and her SOS Brigade. July 1st 2010 The general plot for this anime is that there is a club known as the SOS Brigade which Haruhi Suzumiya is the captain of. (Tenth grade students do drink sometimes when they are away from their parents, I know that, and the fact that the group decided This is a mixed bag, being a collection of short stories. The game initially appears to be going fine, until Haruhi… That's not to say they are intellectually void, of course. It's as if the author has proposed a very interesting thought experiment, and is merely exploring the intriguing consequences through each short story. And this book, with its four stories set between the first and second entries of the series, perfectly captures that personality, if not exactly for the better, but at the very least in an entertaining enough way, and providing a segue way of sorts for just how unlikable Haruhi was in the second book. This is the first volume of short stories, so no overarching theme here. I didn't like the way the mystery was solved in the book, or the behavior of the characters in a book that is going to be attractive to middle school age children. brigade. See more details atTo ensure we are able to help you as best we can, please include your reference number: These four short stories continue the narrative from the first two volumes and continue to develop the cast of characters the reader like. The trouble is, as an artform we all know that the short story is the hardest art to master and, as entertaining as these stories are on one level, each and every one of them just falls short of achieve the level of idea or grace Three stars seems a little bit unfair but damn if I can't be allowed to be a little unfair on occasion. The trouble is, as an artform we all know that the short story is the hardest art to master and, as entertaining as these stories are on one level, each and every one of them just falls short of achieve the level of idea or grace that it was shooting for. It was all just good acting.The four stories are pretty hit-or-miss, but the overall package is a success, even though each story is completely standalone and doesn't add up to be greater than the sum of its parts. 0316038865 Please enable JavaScript in your browser and reload the page. However, upon meeting Haruhi Suzumiya, he quickly finds out that it is the supernatural that she is interested in—aliens, time travelers, and espers among other things. Good news — You can still get free 2-day shipping, free pickup, & more.