I enjoyed Mahfouz, but I agree the translation wasn't stellar
Tom Send a noteboard - 20/12/2010 11:27:39 PM
Either that, or his style leaves something left to be desired. I'm not sure which it is. I'll have to ask my friend whose grandfather was Mahfouz's good friend, Salama Moussa. He's one of my Facebook friends.
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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
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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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
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
What are your top ten reads of 2010?
20/12/2010 12:07:54 PM
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I'll give you a top five. I only read about 25 books so the top 10 isn't necessarily "good".
20/12/2010 07:26:41 PM
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Let's see, this is an interesting exercise...
20/12/2010 08:48:20 PM
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I enjoyed Mahfouz, but I agree the translation wasn't stellar
20/12/2010 11:27:39 PM
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I read a Dutch translation, so presumably not the same one as yours.
21/12/2010 06:38:29 PM
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Okay, have to add Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian in there somewhere, see my review. *NM*
29/12/2010 09:41:22 PM
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Hmm.(New)
21/12/2010 02:21:40 AM
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You have to be the only person I've ever met who prefers Erikson's first book over the second.
21/12/2010 06:42:40 PM
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Well.
21/12/2010 09:19:42 PM
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Re: I'm with you on Felisin. Boring.
25/12/2010 12:45:03 AM
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Yeah. Whenever I think of DH- it's always the Chain of Dogs.
26/12/2010 09:47:49 PM
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Re: Yeah. Whenever I think of DH- it's always the Chain of Dogs.
26/12/2010 11:49:49 PM
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850? So you have the best 200 pages left? *NM*
27/12/2010 11:55:21 AM
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Hey hey hey no.
27/12/2010 02:07:38 PM
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My top eight in no particular order, as well as my two most disappointing books for the year.
21/12/2010 06:19:00 AM
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