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It sounds like the French, Spanish and Italians don't read but the Germans do. Tom Send a noteboard - 18/11/2010 01:44:21 AM
I wonder if there are any good surveys of how many books the average French, Spanish, Italian and German reader will finish in the course of a year. I remember a poll like that for Americans so there might be something out there.
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

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WANT. - 16/11/2010 10:52:33 PM 1156 Views
How long does it take for his books to be translated into English? - 16/11/2010 10:54:10 PM 797 Views
Roughly 1-2 years - 16/11/2010 11:00:59 PM 738 Views
From what I can figure out by glancing at the Italian cover description, it sounds awesome. - 16/11/2010 11:10:02 PM 810 Views
That is what drew me in as well, besides it being a novel by Eco - 16/11/2010 11:18:38 PM 814 Views
Hence the "not Eco". - 16/11/2010 11:33:56 PM 872 Views
I like challenges - 16/11/2010 11:49:00 PM 894 Views
Re: Hence the "not Eco". - 17/11/2010 01:06:58 AM 774 Views
But that's not to say there won't be more difficult Italian words he doesn't know. - 17/11/2010 02:43:06 AM 740 Views
That's odd - 17/11/2010 03:34:20 AM 768 Views
Medieval Latin is easy, though. - 17/11/2010 06:09:38 AM 767 Views
So's the Italian, more or less - 17/11/2010 04:31:02 PM 987 Views
Re: Hence the "not Eco". - 17/11/2010 03:31:55 PM 873 Views
Re: Hence the "not Eco". - 17/11/2010 04:05:34 PM 822 Views
There's an interesting article in English on the book... - 16/11/2010 11:11:49 PM 825 Views
I'm equally surprised you won't be reading it in the original - 16/11/2010 11:17:47 PM 742 Views
Let me rephrase: I'm going to wait for a hardcover version in Italian or English. - 17/11/2010 01:34:51 AM 763 Views
I guess it'll be English then - 17/11/2010 01:36:45 AM 718 Views
I don't understand it. Are they cheap, poor or do they just not love books? - 17/11/2010 05:05:08 AM 824 Views
Likely the first two - 17/11/2010 04:32:23 PM 791 Views
Why doesn't that stop the Germans, then? - 17/11/2010 04:50:35 PM 802 Views
Germans are odd, though! - 17/11/2010 04:53:13 PM 747 Views
VAT is fairly modest on books, actually. - 17/11/2010 05:50:51 PM 1072 Views
Interesting - 17/11/2010 09:43:36 PM 789 Views
It sounds like the French, Spanish and Italians don't read but the Germans do. - 18/11/2010 01:44:21 AM 1002 Views
Might be that - 18/11/2010 01:54:14 AM 785 Views
What are the American percentages, then? - 18/11/2010 02:48:08 PM 1025 Views
Oh, and the Spanish translation is already availabe, I see - 16/11/2010 11:49:54 PM 863 Views
I prefer the original. Like the stairs better than the dark doorway. *NM* - 17/11/2010 12:16:11 AM 398 Views
Same here - 17/11/2010 12:19:04 AM 787 Views
I much prefer the original. - 17/11/2010 02:52:30 AM 701 Views
I wonder if it might be published as Prague Cemetery - 17/11/2010 03:36:32 AM 866 Views
Why do you think that, out of curiosity? - 17/11/2010 04:27:55 AM 824 Views
Just seems more compact - 17/11/2010 04:32:40 AM 865 Views
Eco's own history would seem to make that unlikely. - 17/11/2010 05:11:42 AM 785 Views
True, there is that - 17/11/2010 04:33:45 PM 762 Views
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh - 17/11/2010 01:04:32 AM 768 Views
That's the cover I was trying to recall! - 17/11/2010 01:22:35 AM 760 Views
Re: That's the cover I was trying to recall! - 17/11/2010 01:24:10 AM 743 Views
That was to fill out 25 2009 releases, I think - 17/11/2010 01:27:51 AM 764 Views
Re: - 17/11/2010 02:43:12 AM 872 Views
Foucault's Pendulum - 17/11/2010 03:33:09 AM 794 Views
I am one of those Baudolino haters out there. - 17/11/2010 05:08:13 AM 859 Views
Yeah. - 17/11/2010 12:28:39 PM 850 Views
I love the weird and grotesque in literature, though - 17/11/2010 04:27:21 PM 778 Views
Re: I'll read Foucault's Pendulum, then. - 17/11/2010 07:01:09 PM 792 Views

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