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| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6946 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes  Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 41 of 76 11 April 2012 at 3:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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The book is from the 1920's, so it's old, but not ancient. My impression is that 150 years old is the boundary where it starts getting seriously old. It would've been easier to read something modern, but then it wouldn't be freely available to everyone, which I felt was important for a thread like this. And, uh, as for "superfluous stylistic filigree", I thought something called literature is allowed to indulge in it. :) Personally, I find his writing style quite perky.
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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4691 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 42 of 76 11 April 2012 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | ||
Agreed on all points. Maybe I was letting off some steam stemming from my frustration at having to work harder to read than usual, but it's definitely worthwhile reading this, and it's not like anyone is being forced to read anything. Plus, it doesn't look like this is a very long book anyhow, so soon enough I can start griping about a different book instead. :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4691 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 43 of 76 20 April 2012 at 1:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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Are people still reading this book? I'm a little more than half way through it now. My suspicions have been steadily rising pretty much since the beginning, and I'm beginning to think I've figured out where the plot is going, but I don't want to ruin anything for people...
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| sofiapofia Pentaglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4944 days ago 88 posts - 103 votes Speaks: Swedish, Hindi, Portuguese, English*, Marathi Studies: German, Danish, Sanskrit, Icelandic | Message 44 of 76 21 April 2012 at 5:55pm | IP Logged | ||
I stopped after the fourth chapter, I hate reading on a computer. I've switched to reading Der Verlorene instead and I'm almost done with it. I have ordered Der Frauenmörder and will get back to it next week. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5885 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 45 of 76 21 April 2012 at 6:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm reading at a slower pace, hoping that more people will get to the same chapters and we'll debate
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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4691 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 46 of 76 24 April 2012 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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OK, I went ahead and finished it.
One comment about language: I noticed the use of the word "Jargon" at position 268 or so in the Kindle version, in the chapter "Selma Cohen..." For those who don't know, that was a (possibly somewhat derogatory, but I'm not sure) way of referring to Yiddish, presumably referring to the fact that it is mutually intelligible with standard German except for a subset of the vocabulary that consists of loanwords primarily from Hebrew (and some from Russian, Polish, and a few other places). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 47 of 76 24 April 2012 at 5:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh, interesting <333
I've abandoned it for now as it doesn't count for the super challenge :DDD edit: and as I'm going to Poland soon, I'll concentrate on Polish first. Realistically, I'll start reading it at least in a month:D Edited by Serpent on 24 April 2012 at 5:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4691 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 48 of 76 24 April 2012 at 5:44pm | IP Logged | ||
That's why I zoomed through to the end. I'm trying to finish all my previously started books (I was reading 7 or so at a time--I'm down to about 4 now) so I can start new ones in May. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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