I too prefer the drama and the characters and their relationships in it. I didn’t read much of the novel. I read the first 7 chapters, and when that didn’t work for me at all, I decided to try two random chapters in the middle. But I didn’t like them either.
I wonder sometimes if I would like the novel better, not as something connected to the drama, but as a completely different story, if I could read it in the original language. The quality of translation can really make or break the text. I experienced that many times when I read a book or a poem in original English and then in Polish translation. Or vice versa. Some translations are sublime, some are really, really not. :)
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Date: 2019-01-21 07:28 pm (UTC)I wonder sometimes if I would like the novel better, not as something connected to the drama, but as a completely different story, if I could read it in the original language. The quality of translation can really make or break the text. I experienced that many times when I read a book or a poem in original English and then in Polish translation. Or vice versa. Some translations are sublime, some are really, really not. :)