Review of The Social Cancer / Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal (translated by Charles Derbyshire)
This “review” contains quotes from the book and explanations for why I chose them.
Calvin and Hobbes Books in Translation
Someday, I want to get my hands on the Spanish, Dutch, and Czech translations of this same book.
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Review of I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume (translated by Aiko Ito and Graeme Wilson)
This “review” consists of some quotes from the book and explanations for why I chose them.
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Review of The Art of War by Sun Tzu (translated by Lionel Giles)
I’d bet far more people have heard of this influential Chinese classic than have read it.
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Review and Summary of Arrival (2016 movie)
Quibble how you will about inaccuracies in the depiction of linguistics, the fact that Hollywood deigns to depict a linguist at all is nice.
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Review of The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu)
It’s as if Kafka decided to write a book with Carl Sagan, M.C. Escher, and the author of Flatland, and set it in China.
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The Little Prince in Thai (and as a pop-up book)
My collection of copies of The Little Prince just got bigger!
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The Little Prince in Translation
Here are my copies of The Little Prince in Lao(atian), Khmer (the language of Cambodia), Vietnamese, Portuguese, the original French, and Italian.
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Review of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (translated by a commitee)
There must be better translations out there. I just read the free one from Gutenberg.
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