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sindohte
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 Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 8:00 am Post subject: Summer Reading Lists (Hey, Winter in some parts!) |
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So what is on your list of things to be read this summer? It can be either Tolkien related or not.
As for me, here are my summer reading plans -
1. Re-reading the Hobbit and LOTR
2. Finish reading the Silm
3. Re-read Pride & Prejudice
4. Go through the stack of new romances that I have been buying without reading
5. Read some Marie-Louise von Franz (a Jungian analyst who specialized in the archtypes found in fairy tales). Especially her book about The White Cat, which is my all time favorite fairy tale.
6. Read the Magadelena set of comics so I can figure out what in the heck to do with that plot bunny that is hopping around in my head.
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Anna
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 8:36 am Post subject: |
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I plan on re-reading LOTR. In english, mind you! The swedish translation is completely incorrect and frankly quite horrible! 
I can´t really say I will re-read the Sil, since I´ve never really stopped reading it. I just take a break from it every now and then. 
I also plan on reading The Catalpa Bow; A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan by Carmen Blacker.
What else....oh yes, I will try to find the time to read all the books I´ve bought but haven´t read yet. 
Anything else? Hmm, reading the HoME yet again, maybe... |
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NancyBrooke
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Anna, and anyone else not a native English speaker - could you give us an example of bad translation? I think that would be really interesting.
I'm not planning on reading any Tolkien this summer, although the Silm is beckoning, thanks to you all.
Currently reading Devil in the White City by Larsen about the building of the 1893 Chicago World's fair and a local serial killer operating nearby at the time.
Plan on reading Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks about the abolitionist John Brown in a fictionalized history from the perspective of his son.
Just had recommended to me Summerland by MIchael Chabon. Recently read Chabon's Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay which was amazing.
Am I into historical fiction? Not usually, though it looks like it, doesn't it.
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Moralanqua
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1. The Peoples of ME - Tolkien Estate
Never read it properly and should,
2. Bloodstain Pattern Analysis by Virgil Thomas Bevel, Ross M. Gardner
Because my directional analysis is draining fom my brain and i need to revise.
3. Ready, Steady, Eddie - the autobio of Eddie Irvine.
Wank fodder.
I will be spending all my time this summer decorating my new apartment, finishing the last of my Uni papers and reading for pleasure in between. May even get some of those damned fanfics finished! 
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Mara
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | Anna, and anyone else not a native English speaker - could you give us an example of bad translation? I think that would be really interesting.. |
First of all, I´ve never read the whole LoTR in English, except for some fragments on the net; but considering that little amount of information, I can say I find the Spanish translation excellent. Just my personal opinion.
Now my list:
-Re-readings:
1.-The Hobbit - almost 3 years since last time (weee!)
2.-The Name of the Rose
3.-The Iliad -- sing, oh Muse, the wrath of Achilles, and make me forget that friggin´ movie... 
Others:
1.-100 Years of Solitude --That essential book that I´ve never read but I really should 
2.-The HP Saga --just finished The Prisoner of Azkaban in e-book. Not really breathtaking, but not that bad either.
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queenoftheshire
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Rereading LOTR
Probably a few books of Russian history...
I might try reading the Silm...The only elves I really enjoy are the ones people mention at in the Silm
Philosophy and Lord of the Rings...a very very good book ^.^
Hmm...I probably end up reading more than a few of the ones on the list here.
That's all I plan, but I'm sure I'll find like 5+ more books somewhere along the way
Oooh! Mara, yeah HP is really good. That sounds a little wierd but I really like 'em.
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1. The Silmarilion (for the 4th time this year  )
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray
4. The HoME volumes I havent finished reading yet which include:
-Return of the Shadow
-Book of Lost Tales II
-Lays of Beleriand
Thats probably about it I think...
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sindohte
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BB,
You really should read Oscar Wilde's collection of fairy tales. I can remember reading those stories as a kid and thinking to myself, "Gee the boys in these stories are REALLY pretty." Dear sweet Oscar devoted more ink to describing the ruby red lips and flushed cheeks of the prince and other male characters than he ever did writing about all of those yucky girls That should appeal to the slash hound in you. However there is NO SMUT!!! They are children's stories after all.
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No slash?  But pretty boys? Sounds worth it
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Anna
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Anna, and anyone else not a native English speaker - could you give us an example of bad translation? I think that would be really interesting.
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LOTR is actually in the process of being translated into swedish again, but this time by another translator then the first time. Well, it can´t get any worse!
Åke Ohlmarks, who translated it in the late 50´s, messed up so completely that Tolkien himself wanted to take it to court. Ohlmarks changed the entire meaning of large parts of the book, making it very difficult to understand. The first time I read it, I found myself feeling utterly confused every now and then b/c of the language being completely illogical. Names and places are not the same throughout the book. Ohlmarks didn´t bother to stick to one translation of a name, it seems. Furthermore, he added a lot (and I mean a LOT) of his own ideas and interpretations. The first time I read LOTR in english I found myself baffled time and again by reading about things I had no memory of!
He also left out passages he wasn´t so pleased with, making parts of the book somewhat fractured.
I can´t even begin to give you any real examples, since there are too many and it would be too difficult to explain knowing most of you don´t speak swedish.
Enough now! This makes me so upset! 
I love HP too! I just finished reading all the books one more time, though.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is sooo good! Maybe I should read it again. It´s been a while...
Right now I´m reading The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates. I tend to read it every spring/early summer. It´s perfect this time of year.
Oh, and I have begun reading The Catalpa Bow since my last post and it seems to be very interesting. |
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queenoftheshire
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I'm a religous fantasy reader...
Any books you guys would recommend?
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BittenBuggy
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Religious fantasy? All religion is fantasy to me *ducks all the Bibles and crosses*
By religious fanstasy do you mean like the Left Behind Series?
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queenoftheshire
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No no no! Sorry!! I meant I'm an addict...and I read it religiously!!!
LMAO! 
It's amazing how when you switch a few words around they mean something completly different.
I wouldn't be caught dead reading the Left Behind Series...seeing as I'm Catholic for one thing...
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BittenBuggy
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Ah, I see.
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queenoftheshire
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Poor BB. Just one of those days, huh?
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I loved you.
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