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Hi! =)

I'm new on this forum, I'm 18 years old and I'm french, so sorry for my bad english ^__^ (please tell me when I make a mistake )

I just finished reading "Master And Fool" and I really liked it.
Actually, I'm feeling low because I've finished it... This trilogy is sooo awesome... I miss Jack so much... And Chippeur too (don't know how he is called in english, sorry :/)

Aaaand I don't know what can I say more ^^

Welcome then!
Why do the French always appologize for their english in advance? And then mostly after doing so display a wonderful english?

Anyways, you're lucky because the author of the books you love is still alive and writing! So the situation is much better for you than for let's say a real hard core tolkien fan, right?!

And if you haven't read the Sword series yet, go for it!

Thanks for the welcome

Actually, there is only "Book of Words" in the library of my city...
So, I guess I’ll have to buy "Sword of Shadows" and "The Barbed Coil", but they are expensive for me
Anyway, they really seem to be awesome, and I'm looking forward to reading it
I just hope they are translated into french ^^

At the moment, I'm reading "Les Thanatonautes" by Bernard Werber... Is he a known writer in the USA? ^^

I don't know Bernard Werber myself and I couldn't tell you if he's known in the US since I'm from Switzerland.

But I strongly recommend reading these books in English for two reasons:

- it's a great way to improve your language skills!
- there is so much chance that even the best translator is not able to catch the magic of a written work to the deepest level, in my oppinion books can not unfold themselves in translations

but that's just my personal oppinion, so enjoy anways!

[edit]I'm sure professional translators would not like this and argue that the job of a good translator is to capture that magic and transfer everything between the lines into the other language.... but I don't think that's possible.[/edit]

Ok ^^

I really would like to read it in english but my english level isn't quite high enough to do it…
Maybe I’ll try it, but I’m sure I’m too worthless ^^
(And you’re right, the french translation is sometimes strange… For example, "Aye" is translated by "aye", but in French it doesn’t mean anything )

Thanks for your advices

just try! if it doesn't work, try another time!

tharkun wrote:just try! if it doesn't work, try another time!

Hi courgette,
really try reading the JVJ books in English I can not speak for the french translations but all the translations into German are really horribel.
For being 50% German I know what I am speaking about.

Ok, I'll try