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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Next up: Arsène Lupin - The Gentleman Burglar by Maurice Leblanc, in a new translation from the French by Josephine Gill.
I bought this at retail price! But the retail price is only £2.15.
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It's pretty good. The translation is good, as far as I can tell. There's only one or two clunky sentences that should have been made more colloquial.
The book itself does have a vague story arc, but really reads like lots of short stories made into book form. Not that that's necessarily bad!
I suspect that Arsène Lupin really picks up with the next books. And the encounter with Sherlock Holmes in the last story in the book was amusing.
I shall certainly put the books on my wish list. I might even pick up the next one sometime at full price.
Next up:
The Time-travelling Caveman by Terry Pratchett.
this turns out to be a collection of fanciful articles written in his earlu journalistic career, packaged as a children's book. He even has footnotes this early on!
Good so far...