05-10-2024, 01:13 AM | #2701 |
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Downloading descriptions for damn near any public domain book.
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05-10-2024, 01:33 AM | #2702 |
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Do a quick Internet search on it. That phrase has been used too blasted often.
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05-10-2024, 01:43 AM | #2703 |
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I guess my reading isn't culturally important, either. I've never seen it.
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05-10-2024, 01:45 AM | #2704 |
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I've seen it a couple of times. Pompous was the kindest description that came to mind.
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05-10-2024, 05:39 AM | #2705 | ||
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05-10-2024, 06:02 AM | #2706 |
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"As received directly from the hands of the ancients."
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05-10-2024, 06:10 AM | #2707 | |
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05-10-2024, 04:15 PM | #2709 |
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05-18-2024, 09:07 AM | #2710 |
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The way retail and review sites conflate various translations of works under the single title. I want to know the characteristics and what readers think of a specific edition, not the work as a whole. Translations matter. A lot.
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05-19-2024, 11:59 PM | #2711 |
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05-20-2024, 03:17 AM | #2712 |
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I've found We Love Translations to be a useful resource on that point:
https://welovetranslations.com/ You get to read the first page in different translations to see which one you think is best. Lucy can't review every translation of every book herself, but she has a good catalogue of classic works thus far. |
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Piggybacking on, not a rant, but while I always use free sites for public domain works originally written in English, money spent on good recent translations of pre-20th century non-English works is money very well spent.
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05-20-2024, 07:27 AM | #2714 |
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Apparently a lot of the older translations of Jules Verne aren't great. I did wonder when reading some. There are some new translations of German and Norwegian folktales out or just coming out. I'm tempted, but the German ones are later than the periods I'm interested in. The Norwegian ones may be good, coming soon. |
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