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By "badly" I mean that a lot of the meaning and sentiment is lost. I think they deliberately cropped out huge chunks when the book was translated into English just to make it more marketable in the English speaking world. Which isn't really "translating" as "adapting". If they had focused on preserving Coelho's original sentiment rather than making it something that would appeal to a huge mass market and feature at the top of the book charts for weeks on end it would have been a much better book.
My favourite book is Flowers in the attic by Virginia Andrews. So moving - a very serious book.
aye, but surely you have to translate the meaning as well as just the words? i'm not talking specifically about one book, but generally. you have to write to an audience, and if you are changing the target audience, then you have to change the writing.
anyway, getting a bit hijacky now! back to recommendations.
read microserfs by douglas coupland. especially if you are a bit geeky. :yes:
:yes: Both fantastic reads - I strongly recommend "The Shadow of the Wind" By Carlos Ruiz Zafon. People I know who loved the above, also adore this one.
It's long, and I didn't get bored at all.
Also, try 1984 (George Orwell), and Catch 22 (like someone else suggested). Although I really do need to finish the second one...
And you can try An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan, if ya like real life stuff.
keep smiling people
:yes:
I still gotta read The Lovely Bones... but waiting list at the library is so long
Did you figure out who the airline was? Fly to the middle east, not a major airline, but not quite budget. And fly from Gatwick.
Especially The Da Vinci Code
On a positive note, I'd like to recommend "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver to anyone who's looking for an excellent and absorbing read. It's an epic, beautifully written and I just can't rave about it enough. My love of it is magnified by the fact I got it for 29p in a charity shop.
Agreed (on the first part; I have never read a Lord Archer book in my life and I'm proud).
Julio Cortazar - All Fires The Fire
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Nikolai Gogol - The Nose
Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis
Italo Calvino - If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
Anything by Cervantes - the man is a fucking genius.
You don't know what you're missing...
Fucking great recs there, Dostoevsky is phenomenal. Everyone should read "The Idiot".
At very best, it is one of the most bizarrely overrated pieces of rubbish ever published and at worst, a poorly constructed, manipulative and (to me) offensive donation to any charity shop currently accepting book donations. Ok, it wasn't that bad for the first 2/3 of the book, but then a plot twist is thrown in from which it never recovers.
We should have a "thesite" reading group, so we can all thrash hell out of one another's opinions. I'd like that.
Yeah The Brothers Karamazov is problably my favourite book of all time, I've started reading the Idiot too.
The bond of The Lovely Bones hatred is strong enough to overcome even that lapse in taste.
or Join Me by Danny Wallace
both true and easy light reading and laugh out loud funny
James Pattersons Suzannes Diary for Nicholas is beautiful but will have you crying all the way through and you will want to finish it in a day
I read it when I was travelling through Thailand, its amazing!
I also really love this book! I've only read it the once though. I think I might hunt it out and give it another look.
I've just finished reading 'Belle de Jour', the diary of a 'high-class' call girl. I think she originally had an online journal and then it was turned into a book.
Anyway it kept me entertained for a few hours.
This is exactly what the Da Vinci Code is though. It is just a mindless, trashy yarn. I never understood all the controversy around it. It's just a story that got big through word of mouth.
Recommendations ... hmmmmm .... most of the books I would recommend have already been mentioned. Have you read Captain Corelli's Mandolin? For a bit of fun I would recommend The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde is a good book too.
The lovely bones is very captivating and an easy read, I enjoyed it a lot.
If anyone wants to read something that really gets you thinking try 'Knowledge of Angels' by Jill Paton Walsh
Synopsis from amazon:
The appearance of two outsiders on a Mediterranean island - one a castaway and atheist, the other a child suckled by wolves and knowing nothing of God - find themselves the subjects of a bizarre experiment.
Not an easy read but worth it I feel.