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The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin

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Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book

The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves & Other Little People by Thomas Keightley

A Feast for Crows (Song of Ice & Fire) by George R.R. Martin

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About meStudent.

About my libraryToo small, too many unreads. Working on both, step by step.

GroupsBookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, Dantisti, Dostoevsky, Everyman's Library, Fans of Russian authors, FantasyFans, French Connection, h2g2, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Language —show all groups

Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, André Bjerke, Jens Bjørneboe, Michail Bulgakov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Neil Gaiman, Franz Kafka, George R. R. Martin, J. R. R. Tolkien (Shared favorites)

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Member sinceFeb 18, 2006

Currently readingThe Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
Q and A by Vikas Swarup
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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I Am Legend (Millennium SF Masterworks S) by Richard Matheson

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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

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Russland : folket, historien, politikken, kulturen by Pål Kolstø

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Fiesta (Vintage Classics) by Ernest Hemingway

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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Always nice to find other fans of Martin. I still have A Feast for Crows left to read in ASOIF. How did you like it?

And of course, you have to love Tolkien.

Steven
http://steventill.com

posted by StevenTill at 7:44 pm (EST) on Jul 17, 2008

Oops, I said a bit more that was cut off because it looked like a tag.

The livejournal link is my post about the movie.

posted by Ottox at 8:04 pm (EST) on Sep 12, 2006

> I can't imagine how a translation could do the original with its puns and everything justice.
Of course it can't. Or maybe it can, but I don't remember and can't imagine either *silly*

'Vaks' translates to 'kvikk' in Norwegian (which again can also be 'kvik' in Danish). Rather oldfashioned and uncool word, but nice in this title - at least in my opinion.

http://ottox.livejournal.com/14719.html

posted by Ottox at 8:02 pm (EST) on Sep 12, 2006

"Finish and organize your tags, you lazy sod."

You talkin' to me? Huh? Well, you're right. ;)

Tak for de pæne ord!

"Håndbog for vakse galakse-blaffere" is a translation fron the eighties and I loved it (I didn't really read English then). Last year there came a new translation (because of the movie) that I bought but haven't dared to read yet - unlike the four volumes that came in the eighties, each part in the new complete edition has been translated by a different person and I'm not sure that's a good thing - and I certainly don't think the titles are nearly as good as the old ones. "Blafferens galakseguide" - boring! Pity...
Ok, end of the ramblings of an old and bitter man! :p

posted by Ottox at 7:00 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2006