Hello guys!

#1 Orsettocattivo

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Posted 22 October 2016 - 03:32 PM

Hi! I am an Italian fan. I've been reading Malazan for quite some time. I read the main series and Ice's novels (except Assail). Will read Assail and then start reading FOD and Dancer's trilogy. I read in english because in Italy not all the novels are available (a damn shame). Unfortunately this means some passages are quite hard to get (Kruppe for example, i think he is hard to understand for natives, nevermind for a foreign reader).

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#2 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 22 October 2016 - 04:34 PM

Welcome to the board! Feel free to ask for clarification, and yes Kruppe is tough for native speakers as well, lol.

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#3 Coltaine -

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Posted 22 October 2016 - 06:00 PM

Welcome to the forum Orsettocattivo Posted Image

The german translators are also very slow. After 16 years they didn't even manage to translate the MBotF completely.

#4 Orsettocattivo

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Posted 22 October 2016 - 06:29 PM

- Coltaine - said:

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Welcome to the forum Orsettocattivo Posted Image

The german translators are also very slow. After 16 years they didn't even manage to translate the MBotF completely.

Oh wow! Here in Italy the publisher went bankrupt so they suddenly stopped after Midnight Tides. Only recently they started publishing again, but they will probably never publish ICE.
IT's not really a problem to read in English, but it makes reading a bit less relaxing because you have to focus more

#5 Egwene

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Posted 31 October 2016 - 08:21 AM

Orsettocattivo, on 22 October 2016 - 06:29 PM, said:

- Coltaine - said:

1477159255[/url]' post='1257060']
Welcome to the forum Orsettocattivo Posted Image

The german translators are also very slow. After 16 years they didn't even manage to translate the MBotF completely.

Good to hear that they have started publishing again, Orsettocattivo. The Malazan universe deserves to be translated. If you know anyone who is reading the series in Italian, likes being on the computer and maybe has some very basic ideas of html... it would be great for someone to start an Italian Malazan Wiki! Apart from the English one, we currently have German and Polish Wikis - it would be great to be able to add Italian to the list. Even if the site only contained some A-Z listings of character names and their English equivalent. That would be so useful to readers who may have started in Italian but then went over to the English editions.