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| Re: May-June 2012 What Are You Reading? [message #49764 is a reply to message #49657 ] |
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michelle sagara's silence. excellent
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: May-June 2012 What Are You Reading? [message #49973 is a reply to message #49657 ] |
Thu, 24 May 2012 16:59 |
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 L.R.K.
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Well, that's just horrible when that happens - I rather think that when they start publishing a work in translation, they ought to stick it out to the end. (Yes, this may be neither reasonable nor realistic - but I don't care.) It happened to me once, too - with Dave Duncan's A Man of His Word-series. I was reading the books, borrowed from the library, in Swedish translation - they only translated two of four. Fine, I thought, I quite like this series, I can get (= buy) it in English instead. And - it was out of print! Gah! Imagine my consternation - with, among other things, my hero stuck on a slave ship, and I had no way of finding out what happened next... Nice.
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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| Re: May-June 2012 What Are You Reading? [message #49992 is a reply to message #49973 ] |
Fri, 25 May 2012 11:28 |
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| L.R.K. wrote on Thu, 24 May 2012 16:59 |
Well, that's just horrible when that happens - I rather think that when they start publishing a work in translation, they ought to stick it out to the end. (Yes, this may be neither reasonable nor realistic - but I don't care.) It happened to me once, too - with Dave Duncan's A Man of His Word-series. I was reading the books, borrowed from the library, in Swedish translation - they only translated two of four. Fine, I thought, I quite like this series, I can get (= buy) it in English instead. And - it was out of print! Gah! Imagine my consternation - with, among other things, my hero stuck on a slave ship, and I had no way of finding out what happened next... Nice.
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Oh how horrible! At least Balsa's story in the second Moribito left off with a nice conclusion, not with her stuck on a slave ship or anything! I was so looking forward to reading about her further adventures, though...and knowing there were ten books in the series, my hopes were so high.
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| Re: May-June 2012 What Are You Reading? [message #50609 is a reply to message #50597 ] |
Thu, 05 July 2012 15:45 |
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L.R.K.
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| shalea wrote on Wed, 04 July 2012 23:10 |
About to re-read Patriot Hearts by Barbara Hambly -- I just read it for the first time very quickly to get the story, and want to read it more slowly for the characters and setting. This is the intertwined stories of several key women in early American history, and I love the way Hambly humanizes them while remaining fairly faithful to documented facts.
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I've actually got this book on my reading list - though, I'm roughly (and oversimplified) about eight years behind in my reading, and I bought the book fairly recently so... I won't be getting to it tomorrow, let's just say.  Still, I'm glad that you say it's that good - I don't consider a book really good unless it's re-readable.
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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