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Old 09-27-2010, 01:22 AM   #20
Luke King
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Originally Posted by galavanter View Post
I've been wanting to finally read Anna Karenina, and the only title in the Kindle Store from the translation I want (Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) reads "Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)". I downloaded the sample to see if it would read that way on my Kindle. It does, and I won't buy it.

While she is entitled to promote reading all she wants, she does not in any way deserve to be part of the title.
I can't help wondering what Tolstoy would have said.
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