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sun surfer · 11-09-2014, 06:06 PM

This is a really great selection this month. It may not be a secret to some that, for a large part, I'm not a big war book fan, so I voted for the two that weren't expressly about the horrors of war, but all the books were tempting. What tipped it for me was that Noli Me Tangere sounds quite interesting (and I do like a good literary love story), and it's also very highly rated on Goodreads and I'm intrigued by its status in the Philippines as "the" great novel, so if it wins I'm looking forward to see if it lives up to the hype.

As it is in the lead for now, I see the free pd translations for Noli Me Tangere posted here, but I wonder, has anyone looked at any other translations yet? I'm curious what options there may be on that front.

11-09-2014, 06:06 PM	#10
sun surfer languorous autodidact ✦ Posts: 4,235 Karma: 44667380 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: smiling with the rising sun Device: onyx boox poke 2 colour, kindle voyage	This is a really great selection this month. It may not be a secret to some that, for a large part, I'm not a big war book fan, so I voted for the two that weren't expressly about the horrors of war, but all the books were tempting. What tipped it for me was that Noli Me Tangere sounds quite interesting (and I do like a good literary love story), and it's also very highly rated on Goodreads and I'm intrigued by its status in the Philippines as "the" great novel, so if it wins I'm looking forward to see if it lives up to the hype. As it is in the lead for now, I see the free pd translations for Noli Me Tangere posted here, but I wonder, has anyone looked at any other translations yet? I'm curious what options there may be on that front. Last edited by sun surfer; 11-09-2014 at 06:08 PM.