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The authors below have titles that might be in some form of Arabic that I can't make heads or tails of. Maybe someone else can :)
J. D. Salinger
Jhumpa Lahiri
Khaled Hosseini
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hey, i'm persian n i know a little arabic too although im not very good in english but i think i could help u about them :)
jus gimme the clue! ;)
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Could someone (or more than one) with far better French, Spanish, and German than mine see what they can do with
OSC's books?
Thanks!
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John
(last edited 12/13/2007 02:42PM)
12/13/2007 02:42PM
I did most of the French/Spanish that was un-matched. However, I left some that were the usual case of being "adapted" rather than literal translations of the original English titles; someone familiar with the series might have an idea on those perhaps.
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If you can tell me what the translated title is, I can help with that. I'm pretty familiar with OSC's work.
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"Esperando el venado" = WAITING FOR THE DEER (?)
I don't know where "Jason Valois" fits in with OSC's books.
"La strategie de l'ombre" = SHADOW GAME (?)
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"Shadow Game" =
Ender's Shadow"Waiting for the Deer" has to be
Hart's Hope.
I've never heard of Jason Valois!
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I found a whole boatload of authors who could use a LOT of work: philosophers. No one bothers with those guys at all.
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Got help on "Jason Valois" from someone over at OSC's Hatrack forums (thanks, docmagik!). Jason Valois = Jason Worthing, so book 1 =
The Worthing Chronicle.
Paul, could you give some specific author names, please?
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pretty much everyone on this list
www.philosophypages.com/ph/ind...
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O_O
Ok . . .
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The trouble with these guys (and gals) is they tend to have multiple versions of their names, as well as many translations. Not to mention books with similar-but-not-the-same titles.
I did what I could with Descartes and Spinoza. If someone (especially a French speaker for Descartes and a German speaker for Spinoza) could check them over, that would be good.
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I didn't feel too comfortable combining more of Decartes without copies on hand to be sure the contens matched exactly between French and English titles.
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http://www.goodreads.com/topic...Whoops. Posted in the link instead of here. Yes, I'll try to devote some time to it this weekend. Exactly how much time depends on the progress I make reading my book club book.
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Somebody(s) combined a lot of the Hamlets with a lot of the Complete Works of Shakespeare. I'm trying to separate the Complete Works first. There were A LOT more than I could see when I first perused.
I realize I'm not sure enough of Lewis Carroll's works to work on him. Don't know which are the same or different books with all the Alice's and Through the Looking Glasses, etc.
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I can do Carroll on Sunday if no one else gets there first.
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I just separated the Complete Shakespeares away from the Hamlets with latter left combined. (I'm not positive that I got them all; my eyes are blurred!)
What do people think about recombining the various editions of The Complete Shakespeare? My tendency would be to combine them but there are some differences between them, I think.
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I would agree that it would make the most sense to combine them.
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Brandy
(last edited 03/08/2008 08:09AM)
03/08/2008 08:00AM
I'm not feeling industrious enough to tackle all of Lewis Carroll, but I just separated all the
Through the Looking Glasses from the
Alice in Wonderlands and re-combined accordingly. Notes for anyone who tackles the rest:
Alice in Wonderland,
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and
Alice's Adventures Underground are all the same book. The sequel is
Through the Looking Glass and/or
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
In re: either of these: what's the policy with abridgments? Do they get combined with the regular book, or go separate? (I didn't separate any of them because I'm really very lazy that way this morning.)
I haven't touched foreign editions of either one, with the exception of ones that were really obvious.
While we're on the topic of Carroll and Shakespeare: Amazon added The Complete Works of Shakespeare by Lewis Carroll (
http://www.goodreads.com/book/.... Since it's Amazon, is there any way to actually fix it, or will it keep reverting to this nonsense?
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Brandy,
Re: The Complete Works of Shakespeare by Lewis Carroll. I just deleted it from Goodreads. [I have to admit that I'm already beginning to regret this rash move, but done is done.] Let's see if it reappears. If it does, perhaps a more sane thing to do (i.e. rather than delete it), is just change the author to William Shakespeare. Then, since the ISBN number is in the Goodreads database, I suspect it won't be added again by Amazon.
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Lisa
(last edited 03/08/2008 03:20PM)
03/08/2008 12:51PM
It's still there or it's back:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/...
Probably an edition with a forward by Lewis Carroll but no other information at Amzon.
Just signing off BUT do wonder if that's so or if it's even an edtion of Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb. Probably the former. I'm not ready to change the author but it probably should be chnaged to William Shakespeare.
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Re: The Complete Works of Shakespeare by Lewis Carroll.
I've done a little research on this book and am convinced that it is a mistake, probably caused by some computer snafu.
I reach this conclusion for the following reasons:
This book is supposed to be a Wordsworth Children's Classic. I checked the entire Wordsworth catalog online and there is no such book in their Children's Classics or anywhere else in their catalog. Then I went to ISBN search engines on the internet. Some of them have it listed and they suggest certain online bookstores that may have it. I checked all of these (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Abebooks, Alibris, eCampus, and Ebay). Most of them don't have a book with that ISBN (i.e. 1853268119) and those that do don't have any in stock and don't know when they will get any. Finally I checked the entire ISBN directory on LinkBaton (see
http://my.linkbaton.com/isbn if you want to check it out) and they do not list that number as having been used.
So that's good enough for me. Since the book apparently cannot be deleted without being re-added, I'm going to change the author to William Shakespeare and put a note in the book description suggesting that this book probably doesn't exist.
Otis, if I err in this, please let me know and I'll change it back.
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Brandy, I didn't post right away but thanks for the helpful books of Lewis Carroll information.
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So did y'all fix everything while I was dealing with Real Life?
Aw, darn! ;)
Thanks!!! :)
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