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   Hi, August Abolins : Alexander Koryagin!   
   I read your message from 31.12.2019 03:07   
      
    AK>> For me English is a connection with the rest of the world, as is   
    AK>> my satellite dish. But of course there are many masterstroke   
    AK>> books. The most comfortable book in my library is Ivanhoe, by   
    AK>> Walter Scott. I really have a rest when I read it. It full of   
    AK>> great humor, actions, emotions.   
      
    AA> I'm impressed with your likes. Ivanhoe is quite the epic and filled   
    AA> with very "formal" yet an ancient way of speaking and writing.   
      
   Well, my first meeting with th original ended similarly. But after years I   
   returned to this book. There is energy and life there.   
      
    AA> L-o-n-g sentences!   
      
   Such sentences got me down when I tried to read the second book about Robinson   
   Crusoe adventures. And the style was very tedious, too.   
      
    AA> I delved into to it to get a refresher.. and one of the first words   
    AA> that I did *not* know right away was here: "The curse of St Withold   
    AA> upon these infernal porkers!" said the swine-herd, after blowing   
    AA> his horn obstreperously,.." I mean, "obstreperous" is not a word   
    AA> that anyone is likely to whip out in conversation.  But maybe I   
    AA> will *now*! LOL   
      
   As for Ivanhoe, I've got a nice Russian translation. I can't tell you the name   
   of that witty translator -- the book was read so many times by me and till me,   
   so it had lost the cover and first pages. ;-) I'd suggest to you to start with   
   Russian translations.   
      
   I know there are several translations of this book into Russian, and not all of   
    them I like. All of them readable; they differ IMHO by the size of the   
   translator's sense of humor. ;)   
      
   Bye, August!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2020   
      
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