What are you currently reading?

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[Moonfish]

I've taken advantage of Delphi's sets several times when it comes to English language writers, but I tend to be a bit more picky when I'm hunting down something that has to be read in translation.  (Lord help the poor fellow who buys a $3 Kindle edition of Verne's novels in translation.)

That is very true - the translations can be iffy at times.

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Tom Holt   Expecting Someone Smaller
Ingolf, the youngest brother of Fasolt and Fafner escaped with the Ring and the Tarnhelm and used their powers to transform himself into a badger in rural England to evade the hunt by Alberich, Hagen and the others to obtain it for themselves.  Unfortunately he is run over and passes the Ring and Tarnhelm to the rather naïve driver who then is the object of the Nibelung's search.   Light summer fun.

[stingo]

Finished The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell. I liked this second book in the Saxon Tales series better than the first (The Last Kingdom). Maybe it was getting to know the main character, Uhtred, more, or maybe the pacing was a bit better, but it was a more riveting read, especially at the end.

Started The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham.

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[Jaakko Keskinen]

Geo Dude,
If you like books on the Kindle there are plenty of great works in the Delphi Classics series. Very cheap and well formatted.
E.g. for Dumas:

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or Hugo

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Two greatest french authors of all time, to me at least! *pounds the table*

[North Star]

Two greatest french authors of all time, to me at least! *pounds the table*

Poppycock! Diderot's Encyclopédie puts him solely on the lead. 

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I am given to understand that the US Kindle version of The Day Of The Triffids is abridged/censored. Would anyone happen to know if this is the case?

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Poppycock! Diderot's Encyclopédie puts him solely on the lead. 

I actually forgot to mention Voltaire, I really like to quote him when I'm drinking.

[Ken B]

I actually forgot to mention Voltaire, I really like to quote him when I'm drinking.

Cough cough Guy de Maupassant Cough

[Karl Henning]

I actually forgot to mention Voltaire, I really like to quote him when I'm drinking.

Aye; Voltaire isn't half so entertaining when one has sobered up

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Aye; Voltaire isn't half so entertaining when one has sobered up

Well, I can't say I didn't see that one coming.

[Karl Henning]

You're being a good sport.

[Moonfish]

Aye; Voltaire isn't half so entertaining when one has sobered up

Except for "Candide"....   

[North Star]

I actually forgot to mention Voltaire, I really like to quote him when I'm drinking.

Dude, Camus is a Cognac, and wrote a book about nothing else than chatting over a Jenever glass..

[stingo]

I am given to understand that the US Kindle version of The Day Of The Triffids is abridged/censored. Would anyone happen to know if this is the case?

Discovered that the Amazon US Kindle version is the American version of the book which was abridged and censored. I've ordered a paperback from Amazon.co.uk which to the best of my knowledge seems to be the original UK version. (Apparently Kindle books are country specific.)

[Daverz]

Discovered that the Amazon US Kindle version is the American version of the book which was abridged and censored. I've ordered a paperback from Amazon.co.uk which to the best of my knowledge seems to be the original UK version. (Apparently Kindle books are country specific.)

The missing parts are described here:

http://triffids.wuthering-heights.co.uk/versions.php

[stingo]

Thanks. Yes, that's how I found out definitively there were two versions. I've located where on my copy the edit was made in Chapter 1. So I've decided to hold off reading it til the original UK copy arrives.

[Ken B]

Discovered that the Amazon US Kindle version is the American version of the book which was abridged and censored. I've ordered a paperback from Amazon.co.uk which to the best of my knowledge seems to be the original UK version. (Apparently Kindle books are country specific.)

That's a staple of HS reading lists. Is the US version in schools bowdlerized? 

[stingo]

That's a staple of HS reading lists. Is the US version in schools bowdlerized? 

Daverz' link gives a play by play of what was cut. I understand the obscenities were removed as well from the American version.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Poppycock! Diderot's Encyclopédie puts him solely on the lead. 

N'oublions son Neveu de Rameau que j'suis en train de lire en commémoration du 250ème anniversaire de la mort du célèbre compositeur dijonnais.  Moi, j'éprouve une fascination pour lui.