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I want to read Emily Wilson's translation that came out last year, her Odyssey translation is very good

 

I avoided hers for the time being because she supposedly leans more to the side of freer functional translation than formal fidelity. Sounds like an exceptional piece of work in its own right though.

 

It was just a dream to read, like really pleasant, efficient and flowing. For me, I'm not reading it for a class or anything, so I'm not so concerned about whether she takes liberties. IIRC she translates it in a way to make it feel more like it would have to the Greeks, but in modern English, so it's not as stuffy.

 

Yeah she's supposedly an excellent stylist, which is a very difficult discipline in translation. Perfectly appropriate to focus on rendering the pace and feeling of the original.

On a first read I prefer something with more direct, formal fidelity and I don't mind having to move a little closer to the original instead of having it spoonfed via modern English syntactic conventions.

It's a fascinating balancing act, you realise, the more you look into it. I spent weeks reading about the nuances across Tolstoy translations last year.

 

I just finished a book about some missing hikers and the search efforts to find them and I thought it's end with finding them but NOPE they're still missing ugh

I got this lil mini haul. I've already read the Britney book obv but it was a steal for only $4. The Lauren graham one is for my Gilmore girls loving friend

 

I just started under the banner of heaven, and not him just casually mentioning that the guys cellmate is Mark Hofmann??! I'm a forensic files nerd and that is a top 3 episode for me. Had no idea he'd be mentioned. What a small world.

 

I really need to read something from Krakauer. I’m not sure why I haven’t yet.

 

I read his Everest book Into Thin Air and really enjoyed it. It was legit haunting. Highly recommend

 

Yes, Into Thin Air is really good. So is Into the Wild, don’t let the weird worship of the movie portrayal of McCandless put you off from the book

 

Into Thin Air is one of my favorite non-fiction books. Loved Under the Banner of Heaven too, and still want to watch the TV series.

My mom gave me that Matthew Perry memoir and said it was one of the best books she's ever read, which seems like slightly higher praise than I will give it if I ever get around to it. He's just not a celebrity that I have any connection to or interest in aside from liking parts of Studio 60.

 

I read Into The Wild and then also the book that McCandless’ sister wrote too

 

Starting Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

 

I am having the same problem with this as I did with My Heart is a Chainsaw. Forced, pandering references to video games this time. Is this the whole book, haha? My wife has no interest in games and really liked this one, but that line about “playing” being as vulnerable as sex and 12k people on Kindle underlining it has me worried I may not be the target audience here

 

the references in Chainsaw aren't forced they're like essential lol

 

I never got far enough into it to see, I guess. Struck me more as poor writing than clever easter eggs


The prose of T,T,T is better so far but this Dov character showed up talking about dicks and clits and programming making people come

 

I’m seven chapters into The Man in the High Castle and I’m really enjoying it

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/...-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

NYT By the Book - Stephen Graham Jones.

(If I did this right, should get past the paywall)

 

awesome, keep forgetting he has another new one for when I finish Angel

 

Thanks for this! I will read, listen, or watch anything he’s involved in. His writing aside, he’s one of the most interesting people to listen to. I love the way he talks about the books he loves.

Having said that, I’ve heard him talk about The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum before and I just added it to my list. If he says it’s the most terrifying book he’s ever read, then I need to read it.

 

Ketchum is one of my favorite writers. The girl next door is a very tough read, and yeah its pretty damn horrifying. I love all his books but don’t think I could read them a second time.

 

alright so I finished up The Angel of Indian Lake tonight. glad I learned my lesson from Reaper not to finish SGJ books at work, cos man those last few chapters had me... everything. ugly crying, laughing, grinning like an idiot and everything else

there's maybe a few beats in there it didn't need (the bears thing) but going all out at the end of a slasher trilogy is definitely the right way to do it. but everything from the resolution of the supernatural bits was absolutely perfect, dude really knows how to write that stuff cos the way he did it in Only Good Indians was fantastic too. then that last chapter is probably my favourite in all 3 books, so simple but really lyrical and just beautifully written

those last few lines will stay with me forever but the whole thing will always mean a lot to me I'm sure. tldr, definitely my favourite book in the trilogy, and one of my favourite trilogies lol

 

I'm halfway through Demon Copperhead and man, Kingsolver writes the shit out of her characters. This protagonist has me feeling everything. It's been a joy to read.

 

Finishing the trilogy cemented him as my favorite current author. I'd give anything to have a third of his brain when it comes to storytelling, haha.

 

Def check out Poisonwood Bible whenever you get a chance.

 

Finished War and Peace on the weekend. Also read Amerika by Kafka and audio booked David Mitchell's Unruly.