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What awesome books did you get (or give) for Christmas? Someone brought up the question in another forum, and I thought that I'd post a thread here. I got a lot of great books for Christmas: VALIS, The Country of the Pointed Firs, the University of California's edition of Huckleberry Finn, Marian Schwartz's new translation of Anna Karenina, and Ulillillia's incomparable The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters. I got a Barnes & Noble gift card too, which I spent on Kafka on the Shore today. I also gave out Wolf in White Van, Fields of Fire, and High Fidelity to my family, and I gave Storming the Reality Studio and The Throne of Bones to a particularly goony friend. This was a really good Christmas for me, and I hope it was for everyone else here too.
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Safety Biscuits posted:What's the new Anna Karenina like? It's fairly similar to the David Magarshack translation, which was my previous favorite, but it retains a lot of specific phrasing that Magarshack streamlined, and there are many little differences in individual word choice. It's more faithful without being excessively so (like David MacDuff's scrupulous but labored Dostoyevsky translations). A nice touch is that it preserves the gender of female characters' surnames, which I wish more Russian translations would do. StrixNebulosa posted:VALIS is cool, but it also hits you like a ton of bricks and I had to stop reading it due to it mixing badly with my depression at the time. I'd like to return to it, someday, as it's really something incredible - the scene with the therapist still lingers after months. I hope you enjoy it!
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