War and Peace: Acquired

[osprey_archer]

Copy of War and Peace: acquired. I ended up buying the Ann Dunnigan translation, both because that's the one my Russian professor recommended and because I liked its translation of the first paragraph best when I compared it to the two others in the store.

Plus, no footnotes. Ever since a footnote gave away the ending of Jane Eyre halfway through the book, I have looked askance on footnoted classics. (Who does that? I had already read Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair, so I already knew it, but still. Who does that!)

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In other news, a girl spent most of the afternoon in a corner of our Starbucks sculpting a boa constrictor out of Saran wrap. For what purpose? And why in Starbucks? Did she get chased out of the Saran Wrap Sculptors Guild? We may never know.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I was just literally thinking this morning that this might make a good read-aloud classic.


re: Saran-wrap snake, maybe her GPS was messed up and she thought the Starbucks WAS the Saran Wrap Snake All US Championship and she's like,"Score, I'm the only contestant." Oh, or worse, one of the other contestants, fearing that your sculptor would win, messed with her GPS to send her to Starbucks.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Depending on which translation you choose, there is sometimes a lot of French, which might make it a little harder to read aloud. But some of the translations have much less.

Clearly the Saran-wrap sculpting world is a bitterly competitive place. Maybe she chose the Starbucks on purpose to hide her boa constrictor from the other contestants, so they wouldn't know what she was making.