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Old 01-07-2011, 02:21 AM   #61
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Did you read Twilight in Vietnamese, maianhvk? I'm not wanting to start a war here, but I didn't really find it that well written in English, and was wondering if the writing was better in a different language?
I read it in English, and I don't want to start any war either, but in my opinion the Twilight saga is well written. You might think it isn't, Redcard, I'm not that huge admirer of Twilight anyway, no worries I just like the interesting story.

I also tried the translation but I found it terrible. In Vietnamese it sounds too romantic and pathetic and Bella seems to be incredibly stupid and she acts like a lunatic in some situations. I stopped reading immediately after the two first paragraphs.



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(I've heard that Steig Larrson's stuff is supposedly better in English than the original Sweedish, but none of my Sweedish friends have read him and so could not tell me.)
I plan to read his Millennium trilogy this year, copied it to my beloved Kindle already but I'm too busy with final tests coming close I'll read the English version, so I won't tell the differences between 2 versions. But in case you want to know how the Vietnamese translation is, I can spare some time to read and tell you later
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