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Re-reading another series, after finishing Glen Cook's The Black Company I decided to revisit another dark fantasy world. Witcher, a whole saga. Currently on first two "stories", it's good to be back into this.
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OsaX Nymloth
Poland3244 Posts
Re-reading another series, after finishing Glen Cook's The Black Company I decided to revisit another dark fantasy world. Witcher, a whole saga. Currently on first two "stories", it's good to be back into this. | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
It has made me forgive her entirely for the trudge-and-drudge that was Tongues of Serpents. It was like reading an awesome fanfic. (Which I suppose is not far off from the truth considering the entire Temeraire series spawned out of her writing Master and Commander fanfic.) I cannot quite count the number of times I had to put down the book, because I was cackling too much. | ||
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MarlieChurphy
United States2063 Posts
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MarlieChurphy
United States2063 Posts
On July 20 2013 23:46 ohsea.toc wrote: Anyone read The Divine Comedy? Just finished Inferno. Required reading for uni. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/y8tF4u1.jpg) edit - actually it's motivated me to start playing some warcraft 3 again, especially the frozen throne. Something about the demonology. Hellscapes abound in both. I always wanted to read this book without the poetry. I tried to find direct english translations that don't rewrite the book to be poetry into english, they seem to not exist. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On July 22 2013 05:42 MarlieChurphy wrote: I always wanted to read this book without the poetry. I tried to find direct english translations that don't rewrite the book to be poetry into english, they seem to not exist. Charles Singleton has the best prose translation. | ||
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farvacola
United States18846 Posts
On July 22 2013 05:42 MarlieChurphy wrote: I always wanted to read this book without the poetry. I tried to find direct english translations that don't rewrite the book to be poetry into english, they seem to not exist. It's an epic poem in Italian too...... | ||
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MarlieChurphy
United States2063 Posts
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On July 22 2013 06:15 MarlieChurphy wrote: Thanks, not a fan of poetry and I don't speak italian, so....... I think his point was that a direct translation would make it poetry in english. I get that you don't like poetry, but maybe this just isn't the book for you then since its supposed to be in poem form. also @ docvoc Lolita is fun. | ||
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farvacola
United States18846 Posts
On July 22 2013 06:15 MarlieChurphy wrote: Thanks, not a fan of poetry and I don't speak italian, so....... Well if that's true, then I'd say the Divine Comedy is not for you. Alternatively, it really is a work of art in literature, and is something that I think even those inclined towards disliking poetry ought to at least give a look. | ||
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On July 22 2013 06:21 farvacola wrote: Well if that's true, then I'd say the Divine Comedy is not for you. Alternatively, it really is a work of art in literature, and is something that I think even those inclined towards disliking poetry ought to at least give a look. Have you read Tolkeins Lays of Beleriand? I dunno if you like epic poems, but the version where he does the Lay of Leithian all in metered verse was amazing. edit: can't format | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On July 22 2013 06:21 farvacola wrote: Well if that's true, then I'd say the Divine Comedy is not for you. Alternatively, it really is a work of art in literature, and is something that I think even those inclined towards disliking poetry ought to at least give a look. There's nothing wrong with reading a prose translation of the Divine Comedy imo. Poetry in translation inevitably has to walk a balancing act between literal-ity and musicality. If someone is only concerned with the meaning, I would argue that a prose translation might be superior for his/her purposes. | ||
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farvacola
United States18846 Posts
And hell yeah Packrat, I like pretty much everything Tolkien wrote  | ||
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Shiori
3815 Posts
On July 22 2013 07:25 farvacola wrote: I'll admit that I don't exactly see eye to eye with very many people when it comes to poetry, so definitely take my opinion with a grain of salt. I like it and value it more than most and that agenda leaks into my recommendations pretty much no matter what. And hell yeah Packrat, I like pretty much everything Tolkien wrote I feel like I must be missing something when it comes to poetry. Everything that I read that's contemporary strikes me as being utterly unintelligible, lacking in rhythm/form, unmusical, and, more than anything, boring. It's like the poet is too afraid to actually say something that they dance around in the hopes that you'll make up their mind for them... Then I go back to Dante or Poe or Tennyson or Byron and I'm just like this is awesome. What changed?  | ||
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Suikakuju
Germany238 Posts
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Sade_1.jpeg) Pretty sick^^ | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
On July 22 2013 08:07 Shiori wrote: I feel like I must be missing something when it comes to poetry. Everything that I read that's contemporary strikes me as being utterly unintelligible, lacking in rhythm/form, unmusical, and, more than anything, boring. It's like the poet is too afraid to actually say something that they dance around in the hopes that you'll make up their mind for them... Then I go back to Dante or Poe or Tennyson or Byron and I'm just like this is awesome. What changed? I feel like you can pretty much extend that complaint to contemporary music and contemporary art as well. | ||
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Shiori
3815 Posts
On July 22 2013 08:14 babylon wrote: I feel like you can pretty much extend that complaint to contemporary music and contemporary art as well. I agree, although I think there's a lot of diversity in music, just not much cultural penetration. With poetry (and literature in general) though...it's like the people who are winning the big prizes are people I find just...disagreeable or something. | ||
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MarlieChurphy
United States2063 Posts
And Thanks again CSheep, that's the point. | ||
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farvacola
United States18846 Posts
And yet, I do find that when one really puts their axe to the stone and searches, good stuff does inevitably pop up. Take W.G. Sebald or Junot Diaz for instance. Both are quite critically acclaimed, and I've not read much from either that I don't really enjoy. And though I toot the Pynchon horn a bit much, his newer works, while exhausting, are really quite nice if you don't mind your literature encyclopedic and weird. As for contemporary poetry, I find it much harder to defend on the whole. I find very little that jives with my admittedly antiquated sensibilities, which seems a problem that many share. Still, I can't help but feel that it is sometimes very useful to force ones' self to read things they do not enjoy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ On July 22 2013 08:35 MarlieChurphy wrote: Is there any validity to the direct translation from italian to english still rhyming? How come when I looked for a prose version, I could not find one? All of them were advertising that they were translated and rerhymed (or whatever it's called). And Thanks again CSheep, that's the point. Edit: If you must, Dante's Divine Comedy: The Inferno on openlibrary.org | ||
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Mithhaike
Singapore2759 Posts
All of you literature guys are making me ashamed that I prefer sci-fi/fantasy books instead of some deep literatural books with pose or poetry or something. Very daunting place  On a side note, those things bore me, even though I've studied literature for my Cambridge O levels. I am currently reading "The Iron Druid" and "Codex Alera", both series I've just gotten yesterday and plan to occupy me for quite a bit. | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On July 22 2013 09:30 Mithhaike wrote: Just found this thread in my sidebar. All of you literature guys are making me ashamed that I prefer sci-fi/fantasy books instead of some deep literatural books with pose or poetry or something. Very daunting place On a side note, those things bore me, even though I've studied literature for my Cambridge O levels. I am currently reading "The Iron Druid" and "Codex Alera", both series I've just gotten yesterday and plan to occupy me for quite a bit. I love sci-fi/fantasy. There is absolutely nothing wrong with reading sci-fi/fantasy, and a lot of sci-fi (though admittedly less fantasy) shares a lot of common ground with capital-L-literature. | ||
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