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Originally posted by Sebatianos@Sep 12 2005, 02:58 PM
Well you're right - it's a good book, but unfortunately I have grown to dislike it. I was forced reading it - and interpreting it according to the teacher's political believes (it was still in the time of Communism in Yugoslavia when it was first translated into Slovene). That really killed every chance of mine to like it. Maybe I should try and re-read it again...
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I think you definitely should read it again, and try to see the other points of view it offers. The genius of Master & Margarita is that it can be intrepreted in numerous of ways, and still it stays fresh. You might want to try an English translation, too; the Finnish one I found was really inferior to the English edition I had read earlier, as it failed to emphasise the correct occurances and left the story impaired.
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Also before I forgot to mention Hemmingway - I like most of his work!
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I read A Farewell to Arms a while back, and was very confused. I can't understand why it is regarded so highly, as I found the text very primitive (something a teenager could probably muster out at the writing class), and the story wasn't really much of a story. Of course the concept has been used a billion times since and thus has lost much of its effect, but surely there must be something else worth enjoying that I have missed in it?