(no subject)

[dreamer_easy]

Half-read books, unread books, not including Hunter S. Thompson's Kingdom of Fear which is in my backpack, nor Magnus Mills' All Quiet on the Orient Express and Zadie Smith's White Teeth which I borrowed in a fit of weakness and will probably have to return unread

Comments

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

i spy gilgamesh! possibly two!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

That's the Penguin edition, which I've read lots, and Stephen Mitchell's more recent translation, which I have yet to open. (Behind the actual pile is the Ancient Near East part of my mythology collection, much of it woefully unperused.)

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

mmmm. the Penguin--that's the skinny one, prose, right? that was the first one I read, in my textbook, and then I went and got George and...Frayn, I think? One I like for the translation of the main text and the other for the translation of the related poems in the appendix. I also own Mitchell actually but it was a bit too modernized for me. I like my lacunae unreconstructed!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Now what are you doing all this Gilgameshing for?

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

at first I was writing a paper, and then I fell in looooove. :D

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Ishtar kicked that boy's ass.

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

well, I did like Enkidu more, really. *g*