'Hip Priest' is for sale on Amazon, £17.19 used or £415.32 new (that the cheaper option new, someone else is selling it for a bit under 4 grand).
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'Hip Priest' is for sale on Amazon, £17.19 used or £415.32 new (that the cheaper option new, someone else is selling it for a bit under 4 grand).
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Lexingtongue
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Most translations ruin books because most translators don't have enough creativity to rearrange and reorder what they translate. Most publishers just rush through translations of big selling foreign novels when they would be better served finding a talented translator who does the work justice. Biggest evidence of this for me is the John Ajvide Lindquist novels that were butchered because of the success of Let the Right One In. The worst, shabbiest translations I've ever seen. Shocking.
There are exceptions to this, of course. The translators of Haruki Murakami's books do a cracking job and the translation of Hans Fallada's "Alone in Berlin" is excellent. The worst I've seen is a translation from German of one of Akif Pirincci's Felidae books. Seemed like it had been put through google translate.
UaeExile
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Reading A Spy Among Friends, which I think I picked up off here. Read a bit but faded badly as is often the case for me. I'll pick it up again when I get time though.
Does anyone on here have any tips for remembering what it is they've read? I like the process of reading and enjoy it at the time but if someone was to say to me "whats your favourite book and what was it about", I'd be hard pressed to give an answer
Does anyone on here have any tips for remembering what it is they've read? I like the process of reading and enjoy it at the time but if someone was to say to me "whats your favourite book and what was it about", I'd be hard pressed to give an answer
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Disagree about Murakami. Either that or his writing is just terrible. In Wind Up Bird Chronicles I read the words labyrinth and obliterated so many times it became jarring. I'm not a massive fan of Murakami mind, think he's massively overrated.
Alone in Berlin was well done mind.
Charmless Man
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Reading A Spy Among Friends, which I think I picked up off here. Read a bit but faded badly as is often the case for me. I'll pick it up again when I get time though.
Does anyone on here have any tips for remembering what it is they've read? I like the process of reading and enjoy it at the time but if someone was to say to me "whats your favourite book and what was it about", I'd be hard pressed to give an answer
Um... don't read passively?
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Goodreads allows you to store your books online with ratings and the like. Love it, me.Reading A Spy Among Friends, which I think I picked up off here. Read a bit but faded badly as is often the case for me. I'll pick it up again when I get time though.
Does anyone on here have any tips for remembering what it is they've read? I like the process of reading and enjoy it at the time but if someone was to say to me "whats your favourite book and what was it about", I'd be hard pressed to give an answer
Reading A Spy Among Friends, which I think I picked up off here. Read a bit but faded badly as is often the case for me. I'll pick it up again when I get time though.
Does anyone on here have any tips for remembering what it is they've read? I like the process of reading and enjoy it at the time but if someone was to say to me "whats your favourite book and what was it about", I'd be hard pressed to give an answer
I tend to find that difficult. Having a Kindle and buying e-Books from Amazon has made it easier though as I can trawl back through my old purchases (or just look at what I've archived if I've got the Kindle with me). I can usually remember having read something once someone mentions it.
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willin'
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Just reading "Lennox" by Craig Russell. Crime novel set in Glasgow in the fifties. Very good so far.
Just got back off hols and read a Harlan Coben and a David Baldacci - can't remember the titles but both utter shite. Only managed to finish them cos there was bugger all else apart from a Camilla Lackberg (Scandinavian author) which was so-so.
Just got back off hols and read a Harlan Coben and a David Baldacci - can't remember the titles but both utter shite. Only managed to finish them cos there was bugger all else apart from a Camilla Lackberg (Scandinavian author) which was so-so.
taipeisafc
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I agree on the Murakami stuff, my daughter was into Dostoevsky and she said you had to get one by a certain translator as the rest were woeful - cannot for the life of me remember the translators name. I read the english translation of the Tin Drum a few years back and that was really excellent, also read a book of japanese short stories called adventures on planet porno (or something) which was very weird but brilliant.
Ah, that may be where we differ. Sure we've discussed the merits of Murakami before on here. And, as Wind Up Bird Chronicles is centred on an obliterated labyrinth, you'd expect to see those two words now and again
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Ah, that may be where we differ. Sure we've discussed the merits of Murakami before on here. And, as Wind Up Bird Chronicles is centred on an obliterated labyrinth, you'd expect to see those two words now and again
I honestly have no idea if I'm being whooshed here as it made little to no sense to me! Could have been about robot overlord aliens for all I took from it. The protagonist sure did love eating sandwiches, taking naps on his sofa and washing up, though!
UaeExile
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That's half the problem for me. I've always been a light-reader. I was just wondering how people avoid it. For example some people keep a book journal, some leave reviews online so it makes them reflect... etc etc.
zwartekat
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Crackers. I have the original paperback from 2003 but doubt I'd get 4 grand for it. Having said that, I love old railway posters and I picked up a genuine Southern Railways one from the 30s in a charity shop for 20 quid and sold it on for 140 quid. I went back to the shop and gave them 90 quid as I'm not a proper collector and would have felt guilty.
Charmless Man
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Yeah, other than writing it down immediately I'm not sure what you can do.
Have you tried a Dan Brown novel? They're very one speed and easy to understand. There's no social or historical commentary either, just events
UaeExile
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Yeah, other than writing it down immediately I'm not sure what you can do.
Have you tried a Dan Brown novel? They're very one speed and easy to understand. There's no social or historical commentary either, just events
I've read all of them but I'm trying to elevate my reading level to something a bit more meaningful
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