I've read the former but I don't think I've read the latter.Originally Posted by RichRed
I've read the former but I don't think I've read the latter.
Man, I am so happy I caught this review. MWM actually told me he saw your endorsement.
It started a bit slowly, but what a payoff. Can't say enough good things about this book.
We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective ~ Kurt Vonnegut
After being gifted Master and Commander 3 times in my life, I actually started to read it. I'm about halfway through and loving it. I'm not sure what took me so long.
Just read “An Astronomer In Love” by Antoine Laurain. A jewel of a book. From Amazon:
“In 1760, Guillaume le Gentil, real-life astronomer to King Louis XV, sets out for the oceans of India to document the transit of Venus. The weather is turbulent, the seas are rough and his quest may be more complicated than initially thought.
250 years later, estate agent Xavier Lemercier chances upon Guillaume’s telescope in a property he's sold. As he looks out across the rooftops of Paris, he discovers an intriguing woman with a zebra in her apartment.
Then the woman walks through the doors of his office, and his life changes forever . . . ”
She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning
Just wait…it just gets better and better through each volume until about #18.
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NebraskaRed (04-22-2024)
I finally finished the series, when I did, I felt grief that it had ended. it's just a fantastic read. I believe one of the streamers is now going to do a series based on it; the movie was ok, but I'd love to see a series with more of the domestic side.
Where we gonna go?
NebraskaRed (04-23-2024)
I'm moving through this one pretty quickly. I'm excited to read the next.
Currently in the middle of 100+ books, but of those 100+, one that has my attention right now is the 1996 Robin Buss translated version of Alexandre Dumas', "The Count of Monte Cristo". It's 1124 pages (18 intro, 1078 novel, 25 notes), and I'm only at page 332. This version was highly reviewed for its translation by those who speak and read French (any review by a non-french-speaking critic is, of course, completely worthless). Since I don't speak and read French it's the closest I could find to capturing the original text. I really need to expand my ability to read and comprehend original texts in non-english languages.
For those who have seen any version of the movie, none of the movies ever made are anything close to the book. All of them are very short condensed version, shorter than a Reader's Digest condensed versioin of a book, and closer to a cliffnotes version than anything else.
It's similar to "Les Miserables" in this regard.
So much is missed having to read a translated version of a non-english novel from any language.
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