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DForck42

13:48

@MatthewRead nice, congrats!

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DForck42

15:11

hi @hippietrail

hippietrail

hi @DForck42

DForck42

@hippietrail how goes it?

hippietrail

yeah pretty good not doing much reading but i have been buying some books

not too much in english

DForck42

@hippietrail cool. what kind of books?

hippietrail

translations of one hundred years of solitude and dictionaries of baltic languages (-:

DForck42

15:30

@hippietrail what is "translations of one hundred years of solitude"?

hippietrail

lots of copies of the same book by gabriel garcia marquez in different languages

DForck42

@hippietrail ahh, ok. so the book's title is "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?

hippietrail

yep

DForck42

@hippietrail cool. what's it about?

hippietrail

it's one of those books that's impossible to give an overview of without making it sound crap

DForck42

15:34

@hippietrail shrugs ok. what genre would you say it is then?

hippietrail

magical realism

theres tons written about it on the web. it'apparently the 30th most popular book by some accounts

DForck42

@hippietrail oh, interesting. yet i've never heard of it

hippietrail

i read it first when i was travelling in mexico because somebody told me it was one of the best latin american novels

DForck42

16:01

@hippietrail neat. was it originally written in spanish?

hippietrail

yes it was

it's been translated to twenty something or maybe thirty languages

DForck42

@hippietrail cool. is english your first languange?

hippietrail

yes it is

DForck42

16:22

@hippietrail how many languanges can you read?

hippietrail

16:51

well only english really but that doesn't stop me

i've slugged through books in spanish, french, german, and swedish

DForck42

@hippietrail how'd that go?

hippietrail

well i always miss key bits of the story but it improves my feeling for the language which must be worth something

it helps if i've read it before in english

DForck42

17:12

@hippietrail interesting

hippietrail

in the more exotic languages i might just read a chapter, a page, a paragraph, or a sentence

DForck42

@hippietrail yeah i imagine it'd get boring/tedious after a bit, depending on the languange

hippietrail

mostly it just puts me to sleep

DForck42

@hippietrail nice

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