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Stacie's Reviews > Gilgamesh: A New English Version
Gilgamesh: A New English Version
by Anonymous, Stephen Mitchell (Goodreads Author)
by Anonymous, Stephen Mitchell (Goodreads Author)
Stacie's review
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Dec 03, 10
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Recommended to Stacie by:
Alex
Read from November 30 to December 03, 2010
I want to first thank Alex for telling me to read verse and not prose. I started reading them side by side, and quickly decided that the prose version was not for me. It really did lose its lyricism and beauty - I thought a lot of the story was missing. But, this is not a review of the prose version, but of the verse.
I thought it was lyrical and beautiful. I am not entirely sure what I was expecting in reading this, and I am glad because I felt completly open to whatever happened on the page and simply let it flow through me - truly taking in every word. And, to be honest, even after reading it, I am not entirely sure what I expect from it. I have been thinking about parts of it all day - just letting them spin around my head, letting each phrase find itself a place within my head.
I like books like that.
I thought it was lyrical and beautiful. I am not entirely sure what I was expecting in reading this, and I am glad because I felt completly open to whatever happened on the page and simply let it flow through me - truly taking in every word. And, to be honest, even after reading it, I am not entirely sure what I expect from it. I have been thinking about parts of it all day - just letting them spin around my head, letting each phrase find itself a place within my head.
I like books like that.
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Reading Progress
| 11/30/2010 | page 73 |
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24.0% | "I started reading the introduction and then realized he was basically telling me everything I was just about to read. I hate that about introductions. Getting into the nitty-gritty now." |
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Dec 02, 2010 02:10pm
I've read a couple of older translations. I'm very interested in how you feel about this newer one.
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I really like it. I was going to read the verse and prose side-by-side. However, after reading the first chapter in prose I quickly put it aside. This version is very descriptive and poetic - of course, I have nothing to prior to this to compare it to.I was annoyed by Mitchell's introduction, which was more of a "here is everything you are about to read" rather than an introduction to a history or something. The Penguin version I have - the prose version - looks like it has a good introduction to it, but I am still going to wait until I am done to read it.
Yes, I get annoyed by those types of introductions as well. I've read several Shakespeare plays for the first time where the intros give away the ending and I get upset. I'm going to have to put this version on my TBR List for sure.
