CHEESE AND CAKE FOR JILLI ON THIS DAY OF REASON!
Reynolds, I'm a dangerous-minded man on a ship loaded with hurt. Now, why you got me chatting with your peons?
Womack ,'The Message'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2012 1:45:28 pm PST #20141 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Atropa - Nov 30, 2012 1:47:17 pm PST #20142 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I ... am starting to suspect I know why people have compared me to them.
Steph L. - Nov 30, 2012 1:52:32 pm PST #20143 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
LET US CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF DAMN IT, I HAVE TO CHECK A BAG FOR THIS TRIP TO VEGAS!
Atropa - Nov 30, 2012 1:55:26 pm PST #20144 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Hee! (And omg, two-page packing list. Iiieee!)
megan walker - Nov 30, 2012 2:24:56 pm PST #20145 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Does anyone have a recommendation for the best English translation of Les Miserables?
I took a quick look at the editions on Goodreads and no translator stood out to me, bad or good.
Since opinions on translations are so personal, and most people only know whatever they've read, my advice for picking one is always to read the first few paragraphs in each option, either at the library, bookstore, or using the "look inside" feature at Amazon. See what you like.
I guess an annotated version might be helpful, but really just knowing that there are many, many revolutions is enough to get the gist of the context. Also, bread's an issue.
Quick guide to the long nineteenth century in France:
1789-1791 = Revolution I: the glory days
1792-1794 = Revolution II: the gory days (war with Austria and Prussia, the Terror, guillotining galore)
1794-1799 = The Directory (i.e., the boring part no one talks about)
1799-1814 = All Napoleon all the time (also, more war)
1814 = First Restoration: the monarchy strikes back (Louis XVIII takes the throne, sort of, see below)
1815 = The Hundred Days: The return of Napoleon. Or not (i.e., Waterloo).
1815 = Second Restoration: Louis XVIII, part deux
1830 = More revolution, or Louis XVIII's upstart relatives want a piece of the pie and the July Monarchy begins under Louis-Philippe.
1831-34 = Various uprising and insurrections in Paris and Lyon linked to the industrial revolution. Also, cholera epidemics!
Lather, Rinse, Repeat with the Revolution of 1848 that installs a Republic, only to be followed by a coup d'etat by Napoleon III in 1851, and then the Commune and another Republic in 1871.
javachik - Nov 30, 2012 2:27:51 pm PST #20146 of 28344
Our wings are not tired.
Which one was number 9?
sj - Nov 30, 2012 2:33:26 pm PST #20147 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Thanks, megan. I bookmarked your post. That's more than I remember from my European History classes ages ago.
Connie Neil - Nov 30, 2012 2:41:53 pm PST #20148 of 28344
brillig
Oh, that's how Napoleon III came to power, I always wondered.
megan walker - Nov 30, 2012 2:51:59 pm PST #20149 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Oh, that's how Napoleon III came to power, I always wondered.
Like his uncle, he came into power legitimately, as the elected president of the Second Republic. But then he got greedy, as Napoleons are wont to do. When he gets his ass kicked in the Franco-Prussian War, the Second Empire falls and the Third Republic begins.
When the Third Republic gets its ass kicked in WWII, the government is replaced by Vichy, and then the Fourth Republic begins. The Fourth Republic is sort of a parliamentary nightmare and so DeGaulle comes back and essentially creates the Fifth (current) Republic which gives more power to the President.
As they say, history has a tendency to repeat itself.
Connie Neil - Nov 30, 2012 2:59:02 pm PST #20150 of 28344
brillig
I've always been fascinated that for a while Mexico was French.