h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

maybe we need a thread for Kevin?

Z - the e=mc^2 is the one I meant. I read it before Kelvin and found that I understood Kelvin the better for it. But it wouldn't have mattered which way round I'd read them, I think.

maybe I'll start a thread for them too...

*waves*

*sips *

I'm reading Anna Karenina for the first time just now... Slower than I'd like, but I like to be busy. Wish I had more time to tackle what is rapidly coming to resemble a mountain of books next to my desk...

Anna Karenina... *sighs* I don't know how many times I tried to get through it - dozens, I think, but never managed.

In the end, during a big clearing out of books 'I didn't like and will never read again' and 'that I never got through despite several years of trying' it found a new home at a local old folks' home.

oh idea for a new thread

I'm enjoying Anna now, though I'm only barely into Part 2. I often wonder what it is about Russians, though, that compels them to refer to people by 48 different names...

What's worse, Jordan, is that if you're reading a bad translation the translator occasionally doesn't realise two names are the same person. *Then* it gets confusing.

Still, I've always been of the view that there's only one way to make sure you aren't missing something in translation - read the original.

I enjoyed the radio 4 adaptation but couldn'tget into the book.