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je ne sais pas si la traduction française de mon édition est une insulte pire pour l'œuvre originale ou pour la langue française en général.
si la traductrice (Hélène Morita) est aussi amourachée à l'anglais, elle devrait d'y tenir. anglicismes recensés à date : un mug de café, les "Little people" et le grand maître : "field of savages". toutes des expressions avec un pendant français tout à fait valable.

so... there's a bit in there about the glory that is masturbation. and not in a good "master of my domain Seinfeld episode either"

hi

so... this teen-ager has, in the last five years, read 12 biographies several times, watched a bunch of 80s sitcoms more than once and seems as well versed in '80s-'90s pop culture as I am.
all while going to school full time and scrounging around for enough money to get by.
does he ever sleep, out need to take pee breaks?

one should abstain from reading chapter three if one ever wants to eat again. especially if one likes rice Krispies

shit! this just ruined rice Krispies for me too

Finished "Sword of the Lictor". Can't believe how much trouble I have reading this book. The story felt very disjointed.

Still pretty low on plot but flying high on atmosphere and "gothicness". Surprisingly little action for such a high bodycount

"The temperature fell, and kept falling,like there was no bottom for it to hit. It went from uncomfortable, to painful, to just plain stupid in no time at all"

This kind of writing, ladies and gents, makes me weep for the trees murdered to print this this drek

Fini la première pièce. Plus absurde que dans mon souvenir. J'ai été surpris de lire à la page 90 une citation que je répète souvent: "caressez un cercle et il deviendra vicieux"

so far, so crap. the mix of fantasy characters quoting or referring to real life philosophers like sun tzu or Plutarch really jar me out of the fantasy.

quantum mechanics hurt my brain

well! that got pretty dark pretty fast. almost made long for the knights playing dress up in monster costume. now: onward to the last book of the omnibus

finished the third book. on one hand, I'm glad for the tonal shift to a less silly narrative and fewer anachronism but I still don't see what makes this book such a monument of fantasy literature

Haven't read this in a looong time. Wondering If I'll like as much as back in the day.

New e-reader. I'm kinda thinking this book will feed my "want to read" pile quite a bit

finished the second book. the writing is more accessible but the story a little haphazard. the bits with the questing beast were funny but pulled focus from the main narrative.

finished the first book of this omnibus. this wasn't quite the book I was expecting. the analogies/animals parts were kind of cool but the dialogues written phonetically were a pain to decipher.

second book finished. never have so many characters spent so much time doing so little and generated such a lack of interest

Pour ceux qui doutaient que les personnages gaspésiens sont autre chose que de sombres caricatures, un des protagonistes vient d'affirmé qu'il a "fait comme les autres et a appris à embrasser ses cousines en arrière du cabanon chez son père". Personnellement, je n'ai jamais embrassé mes cousines. Dois-je comprendre que j'étais le seul.

apparemment, pour parler comme un gaspésien, tu trouve une phrase typiquement typique (sans doutes prononcé tssssypique) et tu la répètes ad nauseam.

My personnal challenge is to read this book without continuously singing the theme song from the movie... I am off to a bad start (neverendind sto-OOOOO-ry, na-na-na, na-na-na, na-na-na)

first book done. writing is decent but characters go from annoying to interesting. unfortunately, they spend a lot of time being annoying. also: space mushrooms make for some poor protagonists

even though my english is pretty damn good, i had to look up "zaftig"

cthulu pthagn'!

rain on venus is constant, yes. also extremelly acidic. the wetness would probably be the least of a normal human's worries. some of the ideas of this book so far are OK but did not age well and sound a bit silly if you have a scientific background