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Found for 20 dollars at a little used bookstore in VA: I’ve been waiting to find both Catch 22 and that particular NfU for not-crazy-Barnes-and-Noble-prices.
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catch 22 is still one of my favourite books
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Rolo posted:that particular NfU Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Jun 3, 2018 |
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Jun 3, 2018 01:26
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P&V are absolutely fine you weirdo
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I am studying Russian literature for my master's and can say with confidence that they are actually bad.
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I'm not stupid and I think they're fine so I guess we're at an impasse
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I like reading more obscure foreign authors than the Russians because there's usually only one English translation so you just have to deal with it rather than reading all the debates about which one is better
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Russian: — Да, Дмитрия Фёдоровича ещё не существует. Literal translation: "Yes, of Dmitry Fyodorovich still not exists." Actual meaning: "Yes, there is still no sign of Dmitry Fyodorovich." Pevear and Volokhonsky: "Yes, Dmitri Fyodorovich doesn't exist yet." The only possible way their version could make sense is if the Russian said "Дмитрий Фёдорович" (nominative) instead of "Дмитрия Фёдоровича" (genitive). Russian three-year-olds manage to avoid this kind of gently caress-up. Pevear and Volokhonsky blow it all the time because Pevear speaks English and a little Russian while Volokhonsky speaks Russian and a little English (their most strongly shared language is French), so they have to use a ridiculous system where Volokhonsky does a word-for-word translation from Russian that Pevear hammers into basically readable English. Since neither can check for the other's mistakes, you get idiocies like this. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Jun 3, 2018 |
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Jun 3, 2018 02:10
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the newest ryu murakami that got translated into english is good. i’m like halfway through and am liking that his usual cast of fuckups are now fighting against an army with lovely results.
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Rolo posted:Found for 20 dollars at a little used bookstore in VA: You got the book about Fitzgerald's tiny penis. nice!
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Russian: — Да, Дмитрия Фёдоровича ещё не существует. I'm not denying that that's a dumb line, but you don't need to make up VOlokhonsky being not completely fluent in English to get your point across
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This woman who has independently translated things from English into Russian has no ability to proofread her husband's work
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If I was mistaken on that, fair enough. Doesn't change that they put out consistently bad work. There's no shortage of better translators to choose from.
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tsar of love & techno is excellent so far, to whoever first brought it up often reads too much like an american's idea of a russian novel (lots of grim and stoic pithiness) but the prose itself is still tight
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Jun 3, 2018 04:12
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I saw this and vomited
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J_RBG posted:I saw this and vomited gently caress me in the rear end.
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A human heart posted:I like reading more obscure foreign authors than the Russians because there's usually only one English translation so you just have to deal with it rather than reading all the debates about which one is better same. im reading Earth Dance by Oka Rusmini right now
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J_RBG posted:I saw this and vomited Yeesh. I actually actively covet a lot of the Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions, though. I'm hoping to redo my shelves with nicer editions of things I've already read and a lot of these covers are fun 
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J_RBG posted:I saw this and vomited 
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I finished Molloy today after finishing Murphy a few weeks ago. From a book about craving with Murphy, with Molloy Beckett seems to have progressed to, "Well gently caress it, gently caress you, and gently caress me as well, sure why not."
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Mrenda posted:I finished Molloy today after finishing Murphy a few weeks ago. From a book about craving with Murphy, with Molloy Beckett seems to have progressed to, "Well gently caress it, gently caress you, and gently caress me as well, sure why not." It rules. I reread the trilogy last summer and it’s all stunning and bitter.
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J_RBG posted:I saw this and vomited That's badass.
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J_RBG posted:I saw this and vomited 
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Jun 3, 2018 18:44
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finally a way to get the rest of the subforum to read the classics
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I have that edition of Jane Eyre and it feels like that art was meant for a totally different book.
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Doc Fission posted:Yeesh. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of The Book of Common Prayer, with an introduction by James Wood!
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This is still the worst one by a mile
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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of The Book of Common Prayer, with an introduction by James Wood! "Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition posted:The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, by John Steinbeck
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it's real
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Jun 3, 2018 20:37
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The Belgian posted:You got the book about Fitzgerald's tiny penis. nice! That’s what they’re all about!
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That whole series is so drat tasteless. Maybe they're aiming at the teenager market? Which would be legitimate and worthy—but then what teenager is going to look at The Picture of Dorian Grey and be like, check out these chic illustrations by Ruben Toledo!  e: And why make the Austen/Brontë covers so explicitly girly and exclude half your audience? Eugene V. Dubstep fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Jun 3, 2018 |
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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:But then what teenager is going to look at The Picture of Dorian Grey and be like, check out these chic illustrations by Ruben Toledo! Teenagers are actually exactly literally like that
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Jun 3, 2018 21:50
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Doc Fission posted:Yeesh. Ive got a copy of dharma bums from this collection
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The Crime and Punishment cover is good as hell
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Heath posted:The Crime and Punishment cover is good as hell  agree to disagree
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I do not like confessing to the politsiya. I do not like it, Sofia-I-loveya.
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Yes, let's have a literal heart on the cover of Heart of Darkness. You imbeciles. You leprous monsters.
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