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Dec. 30th, 2008 03:13 pm
[personal profile] bertine
Sunday afternoon I caught a show about the French Revolution while I was hanging out at my parents house. Ever since I have been reading up on it. I think I need to go to the library and get a couple books on it.

I love history.

Date: 2008-12-30 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beg-jon13.livejournal.com
Have you read War and Peace?

Date: 2008-12-30 09:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bertine.livejournal.com
Yes. I was obsessed with the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars as a teenager. This time I want to read more factual stuff.

Date: 2008-12-30 09:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bertine.livejournal.com
Yes.
I even read the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Date: 2008-12-30 09:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beg-jon13.livejournal.com
I'm reading it again right now (like taking a break to type this). It's so damn good. I'm glad I finally have a chance to read an unabridged edition.

Date: 2008-12-30 09:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bertine.livejournal.com
Is it a better translation? The one I read sometimes was stiled in a way that made you remember that it was written in Russian, not English.

Date: 2008-12-30 09:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beg-jon13.livejournal.com
It's the Rosemary Edmonds translation published by Penguin.

Date: 2008-12-30 09:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com
That's the one I read too, and I thought it was great.

Date: 2008-12-30 09:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bertine.livejournal.com
Wait, that is the one I read. It was Anna Karenina that I didn't like the translation (I read them one after another for a class in high school so they get mixed up in my head).

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