Ohh, I get what you mean now. I think that’s on them tbh but I do get the “hope they don’t misinterpret this” vibe lol. You’re right. I just gave it 5 stars though if you’re on Goodreads and don’t wanna bother finding out about Lolita then I don’t care about your opinion anyway.
Uh, Lolita’s thesis is that molesting children is bad. Not sure how that’s controversial unless you just never read the book and assumed something else.
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I’m sure that’s part of it but the worse offender imo is that Japanese expresses tone differently (with particles and context for instance). The biggest issue I have with JP>EN translations is that a sentence that could be playful and excited in the original will read like an 80 year old scientist who’s never played outside’s work journal.
Rand for obvious reasons, I don’t even want to casually converse with someone who would like her stuff. But some others that would make me at least consider swiping, depending on what else is on the bookshelf:
1984 - I think people that see me posting a lot here won’t be surprised and if you like the book I don’t really mind but if you give it a 5 star review it tells me that usually it’s the only book on politics you’ve read usually.
Meditations or literally any book about stoicism - Depends on if you also like other philosophy or if this is like your only philosophy. There’s nothing wrong with stoicism but the people who are obsessed with it in this day and age almost always have terrible opinions and are, euphemistically, “traditionalists” in the worst way.
Young Adult books when you’re over 30 - OK so one or two of these are fine but if all you read is YA at this age then we won’t really have anything in common.
Biographies, self-help, and other non-philosophical/political non-fiction - I cannot imagine anything more boring than making this your main reading genre.
In general Japanese must be hard to translate well, just empirically based on how many translations are complete garbage. Honorifics are the least of your concerns, English translations often completely butcher the tone and emotion and leave dry and sparse sentences that capture none of the original Japanese.
Well, he claimed to be a leftist, yes, but he didn’t just develop dislike in the war - the leftists in Spain basically all hated him lol. Which is probably why he literally had a list of communists ready to turn into the British government later, so he’s hardly a hero of the movement.
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I think the problem is that people that will recc young adult novels see them as just as good as adult novels, whereas the people who actively don’t read YA novels think the exact opposite. So this means it’s only a problem for one side of the equation, but luckily Goodreads is pretty good about tagging novels YA so that’s the easiest way to find that out IMO.
I think the problem is that people that will recc young adult novels see them as just as good as adult novels, whereas the people who actively don’t read YA novels think the exact opposite. So this means it’s only a problem for one side of the equation, but luckily Goodreads is pretty good about tagging novels YA so that’s the easiest way to find that out IMO.
Hi. This is better suited for a writing subreddit.
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I read on a Kindle so I have no idea what the covers of most of the books I read even are, they’re tiny and black and white.
I feel like I heard the idea of judging a book by its cover too much to literally do that now on purpose.
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