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View Poll Results: Which Travel/Adventure book willwe read in March? | |||
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson | 20 | 48.78% | |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne | 21 | 51.22% | |
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03-01-2013, 07:39 PM | #46 |
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And I would have voted that way had there been another tie. Personally, I'd much rather read Verne, but I don't consider it to fit the category as I understand it.
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Thanks for the input. I'd heard good things about it and now I'll move The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry up my to-be-read list. |
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I read 20,000 Leagues in high school and loved it. That was nearly fifty years ago, so I'll look forward to it.
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03-01-2013, 09:11 PM | #51 | |
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I came close to voting though, just to tie things up till you got back and see some of the reactions. |
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03-01-2013, 10:36 PM | #52 |
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I voted for Verne in both polls. I was actually surprised that it did win in the Run-off vote due to how close it was. I will be participating in the discussion of the book on the board. I already have it on my Paperwhite ready to be read too.
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03-01-2013, 11:26 PM | #53 |
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I just ordered a used paperback copy of the completely restored and annotated version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea translated by Walter James Miller and Frederick Paul Walter. I couldn't find an ebook of this much-praised edition.
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I have set myself a lower 2013 reading target this year, 52 books, and if I read every one of the various book club selections, it's not going to leave much time for the books I really want to read. And 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a book I read in childhood, so I'll give it a miss.
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http://www.amazon.com/original-illus...+under+the+sea It claims to be "an unabridged translation from the original French" and the illustrations are certainly very good. For the same price 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Full Version (Annotated) (Literary Classics Collection) [Kindle Edition] is available. This uses the older Mercier translation--but not the cut version of it originally published in English. It is actually quite a good translation in its original form. If the language sounds dated, remember that it is more-or-less contemporaneous with Verne himself. However, judging by what I have read so far of the two, Walter's translation does flow more naturally. There are several complete works of Verne--but I'm not sure which translation they use. The Greatest Hits of Jules Verne (Five Books) [Kindle Edition] for only $1.23 does use the Walter translation which one of the reviewers describes as "excellent, modern and unabridged". Halcyon Classics I've usually found reasonably good and the Verne collections are described as "unexpurgated" but the specific translation isn't given, though a set done in 2009 by Raleigh St Clair Books does use the modern version. The copy in the mobile read library is a complete version prepared by Harry T--and it's bound to be pleasant to read and excellently formatted. Last edited by fantasyfan; 03-02-2013 at 09:48 AM. |
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Project Gutenberg has the 1991 Frederick Paul Walter translation which he dedicated to the public domain. Note that this is not the version that has been so widely praised, but does form the backbone of the completely restored and annotated edition 1993 translation by Walter James Miller and Frederick Paul Walter. It's also known as Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, a title F.P. Walter felt was closer to the original. The 1993 version is published by the Naval Institute Press and is not available in ebook form.
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03-02-2013, 09:44 AM | #58 |
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I just checked Harry's upload to see which one it was, and I'm happy to report that it's the 1991 F.P. Walter translation. Knowing Harry, the formatting will be excellent and he will have proof-checked this one extensively.
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The way I look at it, when you have a vote such as this one where it's close most of the way, a vote should not be placed unless the voter is going to be reading the winning book and participating in the discussion thread. All you are doing if you don't is screwing others who voted for the other book.
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