about to marathon these bad boys, what am I gonna think of em?>Runaway Horses by Cormac McCarthy>Svijany Premium
if i spoke polish i would be reading norwid, not a translation of mccarthy, in polish, when i apparently already speak english as a second language
>>25170138If I were polish I would kill myself.It's one thing to know language enough to shitpost, another to know it enough to read quality literary fiction in it, especially someone like McCarthy who experiments with language.Czech translators are some of the best in the world anyway.
>>25170135You will spill your beer on the book and while you are trying to protect the book, the beer runoff will drip onto your PC tower
>>25170135dont drink, its retarded. they trick you with pretty labels and aesthetics into taking something worse than synthetic drugs lmao
>>25171534nta but i generally dislike drinking while reading, would much rather blast heaters and listen to music, but one time I read a Sartre book at a bar waiting for some friends and it was actually a great experience a couple beers deep. Synthetic drugs are also sick though
>>25170135I'm out of beer and booze.>>25171534If you can be tricked by pretty labels, alcohol is the least of your worries.
>>25171534he's czech, they're breastfed with beer
>marathoning 300 pages book and one glass of beer (maybe the bottle is also full)That book will take like 8 hours min. So either you will srkat pivo for that long and it will be zvětralý as fuck, or you're pulling us by our fusekle, because reading fast enough to enjoy one (2) beer is impossible. Also I hate the rubber surface of that particular edition.
>>25170138Should be reading Potocki.
>>25171691I've read 60 pages then went to write. 'Marathon' is exageration (like marathoning a movie). I don't mind the rubber cover becouse it doesn't get damaged so easily, much better than other contemporary hard covers.>>251715411 beer makes reading great for me, it gets me into flow, makes it easier to concentrate. It's like reading during train ride.>>25171534shut the fuck up retarded zoomer go kill yourself. Synthetic drugs are for niggers and white niggers. Vaping is the trashiest shit ever. And I KNOW you are vaping becouse you love sucking on that fruity cock, zesty ass zoom zoom.
>>25170135Runaway horses is his best work imo. I loved it.
>>25171822I made mistake in the title, it's All The Pretty Horses. Somehow misstyped it as Runaway Horses the Mishima novel.
McCarthy is not meant to be read in translation
>>25171900I read a Finnish translation of The Road that had a movie cover with Viggo Mortensen in it. What a fucking embarrassment that was. The translator couldn't even bother doing the long sentences with "and...and...and" which would have worked just fine in Finnish.
>>25172579A translator once told me that translators sometimes dial down the quality of works by white dudes to give works by other groups more oomph. I should make a thread about this.
>>25170135>1 beer is a marathonZoomers are weak.
>>25170135>Runaway Horses by Cormac McCarthy...why did they change the title?
>>25172641Could you name an example of a translator purposely diluting the quality of a work?
