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Originally Posted by drofgnal
I"ll join in that as well. I've read it three times and thoroughly enjoy it every time I've read it. Funny I toyed with the idea of nominating it for the lost in translation category this month. A Russian told me once, you have to read it in it's original Russian to get the full flavor of it.
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I think this is true of every major work, the better one's grasp of the original language, the better the connection. That said, the Hindi dub of the recent
Jungle Book movie was a delight, while I dropped the English after 5 minutes