I just finished The Black Count, which was great, and I'm currently trying to slog my way through War and Peace. I say slog, because I'm fairly sure this is a shitty translation. I just don't know of a universally admired one.
I've seen honest faces before. They usually come attached to liars.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
juliana - Mar 01, 2015 10:09:15 am PST #23036 of 28342
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
DebetEsse - Mar 01, 2015 10:13:21 am PST #23037 of 28342
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I had the same experience with W&P. I...didn't finish. I intend to try again someday.
Susan W. - Mar 01, 2015 10:15:26 am PST #23038 of 28342
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Same here, and I was reading a widely-acclaimed translation. I think I'd almost need a W&P vacation, where I could spend several hours a day on it for as long as it took. I was trying to read it half an hour each day at lunch, and I just couldn't keep up with all the people and threads.
SuziQ - Mar 01, 2015 10:43:09 am PST #23039 of 28342
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I've been loving my kindle and am so happy to be back reading. I just finished the Divergent series and The Fault in Our Stars (the feels, man). K-Bug and I were at the book store yesterday and I saw the size of Allegiant and Insurgent and they are huge. You definitely lose sense of the size of a book on an e-reader.
What to dive into next? With mention of War and Peace, maybe I should get brave and give that a go.
megan walker - Mar 01, 2015 1:15:27 pm PST #23040 of 28342
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
My blog is practically one extended chronicle of my attempts to read War and Peace.
juliana, which translation are you reading?
megan walker - Mar 01, 2015 1:20:52 pm PST #23041 of 28342
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'd be happy to try taking War and Peace on again if people are interested in forming some sort of support group for it.
Also, there is discussion and examples of the various translations in the posts and comments here and here.
Consuela - Mar 01, 2015 2:33:06 pm PST #23042 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Scott Westerfeld's new novel is pretty cool so far. It's two separate storylines: (a) the story of a YA novelist who sells a paranormal romance at 18 and instead of going to college, goes to NYC for a year to write the sequel; and (b) the story that makes up the novel she sold.
It's told in alternating chapters and while I'm not that into paranormal romance, it is Scott Westerfeld so I'm pretty sure it's going to get weird and complicated at some point.
(And yay for the library ebook lending program!)
Did anyone else hear the interview with Kazuo Ishigiro yesterday? The Chronicle had a review of his new novel, which looks like a straight-up fantasy from the description (although the reviewer uses the T-word and says it transcends the genre).
Polter-Cow - Mar 01, 2015 4:13:04 pm PST #23043 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What to dive into next?
May I suggest Karen Memory? (Which reminds me, juliana, I need to give you the ARC! Tor sent me a copy, so you can just have the ARC to read and treasure.)
erikaj - Mar 01, 2015 4:29:17 pm PST #23044 of 28342
Always Anti-fascist!
I loved Nick Hornby's latest, Funny Girl.It's like if his other novels had a love child with "Mad Men" and the "Dick Van Dyke Show"
hippocampus - Mar 02, 2015 2:23:22 am PST #23045 of 28342
not your mom's socks.
Seconding PCs Karen Memory rec. love this book. There's no (6ft tall master spy) reason for me to be biased. Nope.