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[wiseheart]

I found a few gift bonuses for books that would run out on December 31. It made me possible to buy the complete edition of The Once and Future King by T.H. White.

I've been flirting with that book for some time, but it didn't seem important enough to spend all that money on it. But now that it only cost me some 20 Eurocents (the rest was the bons), I brought it anyway. One Arthurian book in English I have to possess, right?

Edit:
Oh! Oh! After the first two paragraphs I realized that I've actually read this book. Almost thirty years ago, in Hungarian translation. I seem to remember that I liked it a lot. It was one of those books I sold or gave away when I went to the convent in 1985, thinking that I won't need them anymore. I never managed to get most of them again. I'm pleased to have found at least one, and in original, too.

But since I've already read it, it could wait a little. Perhaps I'd start with the Mabinogion instead. Of course, if it were a new Brother Cadfael story, I won't be able to ignore it, but a girl has to have priorities, n'est-ce pas?

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The one I bought or the one Shep is reading? *g*

[kln1671.livejournal.com]

Definitely the one you bought. War and Peace?! What was the man thinking?! Surely a sign that he's a bit masochistic. ;-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm fairly enduring when it's about books, so I suffered through "War and Peace". And through "The Idiot" by Dostoyevski. And through "Anna Karenina". At which point I regretfully admitted that Russian classics just aren't my coup of tea and stopped trying.

Not that American authors like Thornton Wilder would do a thing for me, mind you. I hope I haven't misspelled the guy's name. "American Tragedy" inducated nightmares of intense disgust and boredom in me for years after having read it. And Sinclair Lewis hurt me badly, too.

[kln1671.livejournal.com]

Bleh! My opinion of Thornton Wilder's babbling is much akin to my opinion of War and Peace.

I'll happily stick to wonders of Tolkien and Rowling.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, Rowling isn't exactly my cup of tea, either. But then, there's always Ellis Peters and the Brother Cadfael Chronicles *g*

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I actually rather like Tolstoy (in English translation, mind you, I don't have any fluency in another language). Some of his short stories are particularly readable.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The sad truth is, after "War and Peace" I didn't have the moral strength to touch anything Tolstoy-related. I was so bored out of my mind that I decided to save me the pain next time. I don't question the possibility that the short stuff is better, but... well, I give up too easily, it seems.