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Alejandra Alejandra said: "Yet to start reading these translations... I collect translations, just out of curiosity."
 
A Clockwork Orange
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Alejandra Alejandra said: "Picked up this beautiful 1970 edition at an old book shop in LA, I am so enjoying the editor's intro."
 

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Selected Poems, Bilingual edition by Paul Verlaine
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Yet to start reading these translations... I collect translations, just out of curiosity.
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays by Charles Baudelaire
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Picked up this beautiful 1970 edition at an old book shop in LA, I am so enjoying the editor's intro.
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Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
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God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
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La Narracion Como Realidad Virtual/Narrative As Virtual Reality by Marie-Laure Ryan
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Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
" This one is officially my favorite of the series. Herbert's narrative style has been honed and refined in this sequel. The result is a novel with a lot more showing and a lot less telling. The telling that remains now is there mostly to help the read... "
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Children Of Dune by Frank Herbert
" Feint within feint; plot within plot; backstabbing within backstabbing… These elements make up the driven words of Frank Herbert's Children of Dune. It was very difficult for me to put this book down. Where the first book of Dune was fascinating in p... "
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Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
" A Masterpiece Revisited: ---
Why review a book in 2007 which originally came out nearly a half-century ago?

Because I just reread it this week, and now I remember why it has always been my favorite of all the Dune books.

In the unlikely event that ... "
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Alejandra is on page 212 of 408 of Children of Dune: I'm not through, but can't wait to finish it and get on with the next book. I'm consistently biting my nails in anxiety. I think the second book is only an introduction to this massive shift of... Well, everything around the Atreides' universe save for collective memories and wisdom.
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