Funnily enough, I just stumbled across Tokyo Vice during my last flirtation with fascination with organized crime (standard MO: I wiki stuff and spend an hour or two pretending to seriously look for a book on the subject). I managed to get my hands on a hundred-page online sample and yeah, it's really good. And it crosses my brief flirtations with crime with my abiding love for Japan so you know what? I might have to man up and look for a copy seriously. Thanks for the reminder.
And I didn't realize Diary of a Wimpy Kid was so bad. My little brother reads it all the time. Maybe I should start subtly throwing CS Lewis or at least decent comics at his head as a hint for him to read better books?
(Speaking of CS Lewis - this is really, REALLY random but have you seen the movie that just came out? I'm kind of on a crusade to find people to tell me how good it was before I can go out and see it myself. SO EXCITED.)
Sorry for the tl;dr, I'm procrastinating on doing actual work. Subjecting people to my babbling is cathartic.