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Mick McCann
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| grunt wrote: | | Mick McCann wrote: | | Tank Girl wrote: | | its very good. |
*expected more superlatives* |
She also said it was great. There's no obligation to review in depth the book you've just read in Grunt's Book Swap Club. That's partly what makes it the most popular and successful book swap club on the net. |
Sorry Mr Grunt, Sir, it just blew my head off, y'know, so I thought she'd be listing some superlatives, sorry.
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grunt
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| Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:39 am Post subject: |
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| He's got a new book out, Mick, a prequel to SotW. Have you read it yet? |
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Mick McCann
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| Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:57 am Post subject: |
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| grunt wrote: | | He's got a new book out, Mick, a prequel to SotW. Have you read it yet? |
No, have you?
I wonder how much is in the translation, I'd love to have been able to read it in Spanish.
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grunt
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| Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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Haven't read it yet but will be getting my hands on it soon.
I was wondering the same thing about translation. Maybe a very good book can be turned into an even better book by a brilliant translator. The writing was never clunky or jarring as far as I remember, and didn't feel like a translation, which is a sign of a very good job done, I suppose.
You had any of yours translated yet? |
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Mick McCann
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| Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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| grunt wrote: | Haven't read it yet but will be getting my hands on it soon.
I was wondering the same thing about translation. Maybe a very good book can be turned into an even better book by a brilliant translator. The writing was never clunky or jarring as far as I remember, and didn't feel like a translation, which is a sign of a very good job done, I suppose.
You had any of yours translated yet? |
We'll never know, the orginal may even be better but it flows very naturally, if you didn't know you wouldn't guess.
No, I was approached by a Latvian (or maybe Estonian) woman about doing a translation of COAABFILYE, and a brail version but in the end it was felt the content may be too much for a such 'conservative society'. 
Pity, I'd have sold 3 maybe 4.
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grunt
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Updated list;
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
A Drink with Shane Macgowan
At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
The Poor Mouth - ''
Blindness - Jose Saramago
Renegade - Mark E.Smith
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men - ''
PLUS-:
Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
Generation X - Douglas Coupland
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
All Families are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Ron Hansen
NEW!
You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers
Recommended very.
Hurry while stocks last. These books will be gone before you know it. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:54 am Post subject: |
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Have they gone yet?
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grunt
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| Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:48 am Post subject: |
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| bearing wrote: | | Have they gone yet? |
Not yet but I'd get in quick if I were you. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:15 am Post subject: |
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That last one sounds good, had a look at the write up.
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grunt
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| Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 12:00 am Post subject: |
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| bearing wrote: | | That last one sounds good, had a look at the write up. |
You love Grunt's Book Swap Club.. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 12:31 am Post subject: |
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*blushes*
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Read that last week. Can we talk about it on here or on t'other bit ?
Also Netherlands by Joseph Oniel, Good little book, not worthy of the accolades it seems to be afforded. Both are available before the go to the Charity shop
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| Late Doors wrote: | | Quote: | Renegade - Mark E.Smith
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Read that last week. Can we talk about it on here or on t'other bit ?
Also Netherlands by Joseph Oniel, Good little book, not worthy of the accolades it seems to be afforded. Both are available before the go to the Charity shop |
Elsewhere, but don't forget to add a link to here...
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