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In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
04 September 2025 - 06:09 PM
Finally pushed through the rest of THE DAUGHTER'S WAR by Buehlman. Think this one lands as a 3* for me. I enjoyed the story that that was told but I also came in with higher expectations based on THE BLACK-TONGUE THIEF and the bits about The Daughter's War that are sprinkled through that book. Also, while I think the narrator chose a fitting accent for the character, I found it difficult to listen to in longer stretches. Though that one's definitely a preference thing.
Next up is Abercrombie's THE DEVILS. Between the buzz around here and the fact it's narrated by Stephen Pacey, I know I'm in for a good time with this one.
Still chipping at MADAME BOVARY as a daily serial read and I've also joined in on a discord read along for THE GOD IS NOT WILLING that is scheduled to finish right before NO LIFE FORSAKEN is scheduled to arrive, so I'm pretty happy with my current reads at the moment. -
In Topic: JPK's Classics Read
26 August 2025 - 04:33 PM
They got back to me quickly. Looks like it's the 1886 translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. -
In Topic: JPK's Classics Read
26 August 2025 - 03:36 PM
Azath Vitr (D, on 25 August 2025 - 07:29 PM, said:JPK, on 25 August 2025 - 07:06 PM, said:Coming in on 20% for MADAME BOVARY and it's ok. Kind of a deconstruction of Romance where the title character is not satisfied with the rank she has risen to and is wanting to "rise above her station". It's not awful but I've definitely read better. It was published in 1856, which pushes it to this side of the French Revolution, which is interesting because tonally I would have expected it to be pre-revolution in how it's handling the class stuff so far, but then I realized this would have been right in the middle of The Second Empire and it really makes a lot more sense.
With Flaubert be sure to either find a really good translation or read it in French... the prose is its primary appeal:
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The novel suggests that all human relationships, all of life's most arousing moments eventually end in unbearable tedium.
Tedium hardly makes for interesting reading. But this was the challenge Flaubert, encouraged by his friend Louis Bouilhet, explicitly presented to himself. Instead of drawing upon the exotic material of myth or ancient history, Flaubert chose the very prosaic story of adultery set in an ordinary provincial village. The novel's success would rest not on its subject matter but on its formal beauty, its style. Flaubert enhances the theme of tedium in a number of ways [...]
Reading Guide from Madame Bovary | Penguin Random House Canada
Thanks for bringing that up. I've been reading it on the Serial Reader app and it usually identifies the translator at the beginning but it was missing it with this one. I suspect it's it's the 1957 translation by Steegmuller but I've reached out to the person that runs the app to confirm. -
In Topic: JPK's Classics Read
25 August 2025 - 07:06 PM
Coming in on 20% for MADAME BOVARY and it's ok. Kind of a deconstruction of Romance where the title character is not satisfied with the rank she has risen to and is wanting to "rise above her station". It's not awful but I've definitely read better. It was published in 1856, which pushes it to this side of the French Revolution, which is interesting because tonally I would have expected it to be pre-revolution in how it's handling the class stuff so far, but then I realized this would have been right in the middle of The Second Empire and it really makes a lot more sense. -
In Topic: JPK's Classics Read
19 August 2025 - 11:22 PM
I just finished THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV about five minutes ago and I am absolutely in awe of Dostoyevsky. This was an absolute masterwork of a novel and has quickly found itself among my absolute favorites. It's definitely a novel I will revisit in the future. The themes of religion, beauty, innocence, and guilt are handled in such a deft manner that I have rarely seen of an author.
I'll be continuing my classics read tomorrow with Flaubert's MADAME BOVARY.
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