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Sergeant
#141
May 8, 2011
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Today I got my Easter holidays from school so I have 16 days of no school to do as much reading as I want so on my Easter TBR shelf I have...
1.The Secret Circle book 3 The Power by L.J. Smith.
2.The Chronicles of Vladimir Todd book 1:Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer.
3.Uglies by Scott Westerfeld.
4.TimeRiders by Alex Scarrow.
5.The Medusa Project:The Set Up.
and if I get the time I hope to read Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children which sounds amazing :dance:
 
hattie

hattie

Constable
#148
Jul 31, 2011
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Austria
#148
I still want to find out for myself.

There's a really interesting book about translation by Umberto Eco (Dire quasi la stessa cosa) and in it he says ther's so many people that tried translating Ulysses but just couldn't get it right.
Want to try finding out why it's so hard to do :)
It's like th 2 new german translations of Moby Dick :)
 
pip

pip

Sergeant-at-Arms
#149
Sep 3, 2010
8,765
2,850
KILDARE
#149
hattie said:
I still want to find out for myself.

There's a really interesting book about translation by Umberto Eco (Dire quasi la stessa cosa) and in it he says ther's so many people that tried translating Ulysses but just couldn't get it right.
Want to try finding out why it's so hard to do :)
It's like th 2 new german translations of Moby Dick :)
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Thats fair enough . Always better to draw your own conclussions.
The reason it doesn't translate is because its written in a stream of conciousness style (or vomiting on the page ;) )
 
T

=Tamar

Lieutenant
#151
May 20, 2012
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#151
hattie said:
I still want to find out for myself.
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Do finish Moby Dick. It's a great beast of a book with unexpected stuff inside. It changes from the beginning, a few chapters in, and the consensus is that the author was starting to write an ordinary book and suddenly got a great idea and went with it. Sort of like how The Hobbit starts off all "condescending to children" and suddenly stops all that and just tells the story, as if that was what he had to do to get it past the publisher's expectations.
 
Tonyblack

Tonyblack

Super Moderator
City Watch
#152
Jul 25, 2008
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Cardiff, Wales
#152
I just got and will read next, A.P. Herbert's 'Uncommon Law - Being 66 Misleading Cases'. This is a collection of stories originally published in Punch in the 20s and this collection was first published in 1935. There was an excellent TV series based on these stories back in the 60s. I'm looking forward to this one. :laugh:
 
Tonyblack

Tonyblack

Super Moderator
City Watch
#158
Jul 25, 2008
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Cardiff, Wales
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Tonyblack said:
hattie said:
Someone just told me she still actually writes in German and her books are then translated to English etc.
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According to Wiki she writes in German. ;)
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Wikipedia said:
Funke is best known for her Inkheart trilogy, with the English translation of the third book, Inkdeath, released on 6 October 2008. Many of her books have now been translated into English.
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