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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? December 24 (discuss.online)

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Finished Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore. It was a fine book, enjoyed reading it, at least the latter half.

Started The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson. Third and final book the of Mistborn series, well the first era anyway. This is quite a dreary book, but it concludes everything so that's good.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] dresden@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Andrzej Sapkowski (the author of the books the Witcher is pulled from)

Or simply, the author of The Witcher books. Tower of fools is the other series he wrote, right? Never heard much about it. Not sure because Witcher became super famous, or just because they weren't good enough. If you do complete them, would love to hear what you think about it.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I just don't enjoy his writing style at all. I only ended up doing a couple chapters and probably won't go back.

Maybe part of it is the translation, but it feels like a huge slog. The only translated series I can really think of that I really loved is Millennium (Lisbeth Salander/Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). I think translation can be a challenge, because you're trying not to vary from the author's intent, but different language choices in a book are made for different choices at different times, so even a really great translator can be constrained by the original work. It's hard to match both the flow and intent of native writing.