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I've read Dune at least 8 times, maybe 10. I could go on and on about how much I love this book. I've read the Lord of the Rings 3 - 4 times, which I feel is a lot for a pretty thick series. Lord of the Flies: 3 - 4 reads 1984: 3 - 4 reads A Clockwork Orange: 3 reads Brave New World: 4 reads I really like dystopian fiction I guess.
Maybe you know it but I think you'd also like novels by J.G. Ballard. e.g. "Concrete Island" or "High Rise".
I've read Dune at least 8 times, maybe 10. I could go on and on about how much I love this book. I've read the Lord of the Rings 3 - 4 times, which I feel is a lot for a pretty thick series. Lord of the Flies: 3 - 4 reads 1984: 3 - 4 reads A Clockwork Orange: 3 reads Brave New World: 4 reads I really like dystopian fiction I guess.
What do you do for a living?
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(have an upvote) IF I were that interested in a book,(THEN) I'd just learn the language of the original (Sanskrit for the BG) and read the original. Most translations miss many nuances.
Hey, that's a great idea! I think I'll take that on. Learning Sanskrit would be great, and reading the original BG would be so much better, you're right.
"Goodnight Moon", maybe a hundred times "Go Dog, Go!", maybe a hundred times "HOP ON POP", maybe a hundred times
As it turns out, this was normal for kids to do, but it also ment I needed to get some new books.
What I should have done was point to each word as he said it to emphasis the the coorlation.
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Hey, that's a great idea! I think I'll take that on. Learning Sanskrit would be great, and reading the original BG would be so much better, you're right.
Just a heads up. Unless you have a flair for languages, you are in for a lot of pain. It will be exacerbated if you are a native English speaker with no knowledge of other Indo European languages like French or German because Sanskrit has ridiculous amounts declensions. (English, thankfully, lost those; it would have been much worse had they survived.) To add to this, the script is quite complex, more complex than Ar…
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Just a heads up. Unless you have a flair for languages, you are in for a lot of pain. It will be exacerbated if you are a native English speaker with no knowledge of other Indo European languages like French or German because Sanskrit has ridiculous amounts declensions. (English, thankfully, lost those; it would have been much worse had they survived.) To add to this, the script is quite complex, more complex than Ar…
Thanks for the warning! Luckily I've already studied languages with (some) declensions like Old English, Old Norse and Icelandic, and to a lesser extent Russian and Bosnian. I used to be ravenous to learn new languages but after college and children my attention/interest/time shifted, but I think I can make time for some Sanskrit :)
I think the ideas are still very applicable, but some of the specifics might have changed.
Michael Marshall Smith's early sci-fi books, Only Forward and Spares, have also had many re-reads.
My current goal is to read different copies of the Bhagavad Gita. I'm on the third translation. Probably not very impressive! but a great goal for me personally. Edit: downvotes? :(
My current goal is to read different copies of the Bhagavad Gita. I'm on the third translation. Probably not very impressive! but a great goal for me personally. Edit: downvotes? :(
Which ones have you read? I liked Eknath Easwaran's translation.