• durfenstein@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The german version of Ready Player One. Just the most disrespectful drivel about nerdom i have ever read. Absolutely embarassing and god damn was it a slog. I think that was the only book i ever hated and regretted reading. And after reading a bit of the english original i was even more disgusted as it was even worse…

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      4 months ago

      It’s not just the German translation, it’s not really much better in English. What I managed to get through felt just like a “hey look at these references” and wasn’t entertaining at all to me.

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      4 months ago

      I have no clue as to how that book got so famous. Ernest Cline writes like a redditor…

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        The english original is awful but the person who translated it to french managed to almost completely fix the writing, and while it still isnt perfect its SO much better