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What happens when the material is truly compelling
This is what happens when I am enjoying my reading. I.e. the “good parts“ of a good book:
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What are you reading? I find the same thing with books. Certain scenes you just want to keep going and others not so much.
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That is “Die Arena” (German translation of Under the Dome by Stephen King)
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Have you read it in English already or did you go in blind? I find it tempting to read the English and then the translation but don't know if that would be a help or a hinderance
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I’ve done it both ways with various books in the past, but lately, including this book, I’ve only read in my target language.
Undoubtably, some richness is lost in a translation. But I’m on a mission to read 100 novels in German, so native German and German translations are the only things I’m reading.
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That's an epic goal! What was your first German novel/novella?
I've only just got to the stage where I am beginning to read novels and using LingQ does help with understanding. I'm reading Die Sandmagier band 1 and being a proper adult fantasy it is slow going but the growth in vocabulary is definitely worth it :) Novels also seem to have the simple past tense more often than spoken German which is useful.
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Under the Dome should count as like 3 novels. That book is soooo long! I have been wanting to read it for years, but it's so thick!
