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View Poll Results: Which BANNED BOOK shall we discuss in September?
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's [UK: …Philosopher's] Stone by J.K. Rowling 10 30.30%
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 6 18.18%
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler 2 6.06%
The Golden Compass [UK: The Northern Lights] by Philip Pullman 14 42.42%
Candide by Voltaire 16 48.48%
Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce 10 30.30%
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn 12 36.36%
Beloved by Toni Morrison 9 27.27%
The Castle by Franz Kafka 12 36.36%
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler 6 18.18%
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Old 08-31-2015, 08:31 PM   #61
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This version should be hitting my OverDrive account in the next week. I shall have to open it on a tablet to get the full effect of the cover art! The only OverDrive audiobook available to me is the Smollett translation and I thought I'd go with something a little more modern.
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Old 08-31-2015, 08:41 PM   #62
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This version should be hitting my OverDrive account in the next week. I shall have to open it on a tablet to get the full effect of the cover art! The only OverDrive audiobook available to me is the Smollett translation and I thought I'd go with something a little more modern.
Many thanks, issybird. Getting the right translation can make a big difference sometimes.
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Many thanks, issybird. Getting the right translation can make a big difference sometimes.
Absolutely, which is why I think it's usually worth buying a modern translation rather than reading a public domain version. OverDrive is better still, of course.
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Are you reading/listening to it in the French original, or an English translation? If the latter, it's worth considering which is the best translation. That's far more important than who reads it.
Before listening to many audiobooks I probably would've agreed with you. However now that I'm listening to them regularly and have listened to a few badly narrated ones, I'd say the narration is just as if not more important.
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Before listening to many audiobooks I probably would've agreed with you. However now that I'm listening to them regularly and have listened to a few badly narrated ones, I'd say the narration is just as if not more important.
I agree. Good narration can't save a bad book, but bad narration will ruin a good book.
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