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Title: War & Peace
Post by: stealth on January 13, 2009, 11:47:10 PM

Well I didn't make any official resolutions this year, basically because I map out plan of things I want to do each month, but this one's been on the list for a while: read War & Peace, cover to cover, all 1,400 pages.

I had an old Constance Garnett translation, but it's a cheap copy and the binding is very bad and I worried it wouldn't last the journey.  So I bought a new copy, a Penguin "Red Version" (basically the book without any of their typically long and dry introductory notes) with a new translation by Anthony Briggs.

I've quickly scanned both texts, the language is almost par for par, Briggs' being slightly more coarse.

I'm going back to uni in about a month and a half so I think that's a fair enough and reasonable time-frame to get through it.  I hope. 

I'm thinking I should maybe blog my readings, if I do I'll post the link here.

Title: Re: War & Peace
Post by: Jake on January 14, 2009, 11:43:37 AM

nice. One of the best history books I've ever read. It took me about three attempts to do it.

Maybe I'll read it alongside with you...hmmmm

Title: Re: War & Peace
Post by: Jake on January 14, 2009, 11:45:05 AM

oh, and I also read the Garnett translation....I wonder if Pevear and Volokhonsky tackled this one - their russian-english translations are by far my favorite.

Title: Re: War & Peace
Post by: Jake on January 14, 2009, 11:45:46 AM

they did:

http://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Vintage-Classics-Tolstoy/dp/1400079985/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231951515&sr=8-1


hmmmmm....

Title: Re: War & Peace
Post by: Jake on January 29, 2009, 09:04:57 AM

so stealthy, howsit goin?

Title: Re: War & Peace
Post by: Steve on January 29, 2009, 09:32:09 AM

One wonders if it would have been so successful had it been published under its original titlej war, what is it good for.


I am a fucking moron.

Title: Re: War & Peace
Post by: stealth on January 29, 2009, 07:49:43 PM

Quote from: RoD on January 29, 2009, 09:32:09 AM

One wonders if it would have been so successful had it been published under its original titlej war, what is it good for.


I am a fucking moron.

Hahahaha.

Quote from: axon on January 29, 2009, 09:04:57 AM

so stealthy, howsit goin?

Sadly, not at all.  I haven't really had much spare time at all, I doubt that I'll have a chance to get stuck in.  There's always my next holidays though.

Title: Re: War & Peace
Post by: Steve on January 30, 2009, 12:47:05 AM

fuck you axon lmfao :rofl2: