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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7184.Twenty_Years_After?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Twenty Years After" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1165607713m/7184.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7184.Twenty_Years_After?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Twenty Years After</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4785.Alexandre_Dumas">Alexandre Dumas</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7741645?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>Possibly the worst translation of any book I have ever read. The tone and historical period of the language swing wildly <em>within paragraphs</em>. It's like the translator wants to detroy the reader's soul. <br/> <br/>I'm not sure I can bear to finish this. Not in this translation (it can't be Dumas, not when Pevear's translation of <a href="/search/search?q=The Three Musketeers&t=title">The Three Musketeers</a> was so good. It can't.). <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/546969?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>