cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9017476
Hello!
Cowbee and I wanted to read some of the books on Comrade’s Library, and we ended up deciding to make a reading group for anybody else that might be interested. We are looking at This Soviet World by Anna Louise Strong as the first book. Edit: I was just informed that there is an audiobook by dessalines.
If you want to participate make a comment!
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Uhhh.
Okay so I looked at this library and it has Carl Madsen. And hey I like that guy,
But his works aren’t translated into English, and while I know this place has a significant Danish population tbat seems… uhhh, problematic? I mean I guess we can go with home translations by users. But if they’re incomplete we will have some users able to read the full work and others only catching individual chapters, or worse parts of chapters.
It’s three chapters from his book the Good Doctor, translated by SoyViking
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Yeah that’s connected to that last part. It’s chapters disconnected from the rest of the book and translated ad hoc. Would the book club translate the rest of the book or go solely with what was decided by the translator as pertinent? It is a 24 chapter book. Would you in other cases read solely chapters 9, 21 and 22?
It’s not a terrible crime or anything, it just seems less than ideal. I’m not trying to indict anyone. This isn’t menst to be an attack. It just doesn’t seem ready to be on the reading list.
I wasn’t thinking of having the group read that book. The library isn’t a reading list, it’s my project making EPUBs
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My bad for misunderstanding the idea then. Sorry.
We’ll probably read more books from ComLib, especially if this initial book is successful. We probably won’t be reading every book on it, however.
It’s starting out quite successfully. I was just imagining a few people, we have 34 participants!
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I figured it’d do well! This Soviet World is a commonly recommended but under-read book, plus Hex hasn’t had a reading group in a while. Seems like the right content, right place, and right time! Though we should expect a good many to drop after the first few weeks, as happens with most reading groups (or less comments and more passive participation, which is also good).