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post books that would make great video games
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What IS the absolute BEST translation? I've only ever read the Tuttle version and its fucking AWFUL.
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>>25189028
moss roberts
compare translations of the famous first line
>The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide.
Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor
>The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.
Moss Roberts
>Unity succeeds division and division follows unity. One is bound to be replaced by the other after a long span of time.
Yu Sumei
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Infinite Jest
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>>25189157
Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor one is the most soulful one desu
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>>25189237
It's too clubky. Moss Roberts is as smooth as a good scotch.
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>>25189243
Wrong.
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>>25189028
I have the four chinese classics in the Foreign Language Press edition (like OPs pic) and I think you can't go wrong with them, but I haven't read Three Kingdoms yet. A Dream of Red Mansions and Water Margin were good though
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>>25189237
Moss Robert’s is the most soulful tf?
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>>25189254
Nah, you're wrong. Sozz, lol.
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>>25189020
RTS based on Paradise Lost
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>>25189157
Moss mogs as his conciseness is concordant to the chingchongness of Chinese.
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>>25189028

These are the best editions
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But what's Gollum's story?
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>>25189020
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>>25189335
FPS based on Finnegan's Wake
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>>25189157
Brewitt-Taylor is the best of those.



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