Is there any particular English translation of Les Miserables that's supposed to be good?
I just think you're freakin' out 'cause you have to fight someone prettier than you.
Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
Hil R. - Jan 01, 2013 12:54:36 pm PST #20225 of 28344
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Ginger - Jan 01, 2013 3:18:42 pm PST #20226 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I joined Good Reads about this time last year, because I had resolved to keep track of my reading. I then did nothing with it all year. As people were listing their "best of 2012" books, I realized once again that I could only call up the names a few, even though I read at least 150.
Some of you may have noticed that I've been adding GR friends, in the hopes that it will keep me more motivated. I fear it may turn into another time suck, though. As with everything in my life, I am searching for the elusive happy medium. Anyway, if I've missed you and you're interested in the omnivorous reading of an sf-mystery-fantasy-science-history reader, my user name is ginger-k. (They wouldn't let me use gingerk, even though there isn't another one. I don't have the hang of Good Reads yet, though.)
megan walker - Jan 01, 2013 3:32:07 pm PST #20227 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Ginger, feel free to message me with any Goodreads questions. As an active librarian, I'm on there quite a bit.
Fred Pete - Jan 02, 2013 4:36:00 am PST #20228 of 28344
Ann, that's a ferret.
Hil, I can't recommend any particular translation, but I can suggest that you avoid abridged versions. Hugo does overwrite (I'm still not sure why he included a hundred pages centered around the Battle of Waterloo), but abridged versions tend to lose something vital.
(And apropos of nothing in particular, not to mention that I've probably said this before, but never, ever read an abridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo if you're older than, say, 12. Abridged versions are less abridged than bowdlerized.)
sumi - Jan 03, 2013 5:03:39 am PST #20229 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
The first book in Gillian Bradshaw's Arthurian trilogy is one of the Kindle Deals of the Day - $1.99. (Apparently, the trilogy has a name- I was unaware of that.)
Consuela - Jan 03, 2013 6:10:27 am PST #20230 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oooh, Hawk of May: I loved that when I was younger. I shall snap it up.
Ginger - Jan 07, 2013 8:51:44 pm PST #20231 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Almanzo Wilder's homestead claim: [link]
Calli - Jan 08, 2013 1:10:17 am PST #20232 of 28344
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
That's nifty, Ginger!
Sophia Brooks - Jan 08, 2013 2:36:01 am PST #20233 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
That is neat! However, I don't think The First Four Years sounded like a "happy period"! With the illness, the death of a child, losing their crops and money, moving in with Ma and Pa, and then trekking back east
Jesse - Jan 08, 2013 5:01:51 am PST #20234 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So I finally read Glass Heart, which: Yay. And I would like more continuing adventures! But also, I was so excited about the shoutouts to us!