Japanese book suggestion.

[painsama]

Can you guys suggest good Japanese book/online novel that is available online for free? I want to start learning Japanese properly since I can read Japanese manga, but I seem to have problem reading properly formed Japanese sentences... :p

[Karis Fra Mauro]

I wouldn't know anything online for free, but hopefully you live close to a fairly decent library? I've heard there are a few anime out there that are based on novels rather than manga, so that might be a place to start. Legends of the Galactic Heroes? Also, when I was in high school I read a collection of translated japanese science fiction (pretty weird, some story about a floating mouth...) and at the end they listed other translated japanese novels. Amongst them was Dirty Pair, which I had no idea was based on a novel but guess I was wrong. The collection was from way before it came out in the west (ah, I feel old). The only other japanese stuff I know is, umm... Mishima? I think he won like a nobel prize for literature and then tried to take over the country before disemboweling himself.

[Pikanyaa]

There's a good selection of texts here:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/index.html

[painsama]

Sorry Pikanyaa, forgot to thank you for the suggestion. (Nya!) I've checked the books there, nice selection of books/texts there. But just a few of them are the new ones. To read the old texts is quite hard since sometimes the kanji used is no more used nowadays. :) If possible any other suggestion of new books online? I've heard that there are some japanese online novels that later compiled into books. How can I find them? Suggestions of good japanese books which are not available online, preferably those based on anime/manga are also welcomed.

[Distorted666]

You could use your local NewsGroup that your isp provides and Download the E-Books from there .. Just look for Japanese E-books =) hope that helps