/lit/ - Literature

anybody read this? is it decent?

>>8960419
maybe the lotgh translations?

Anyone try it?

Has anyone here read this series? Worth getting into?

Is pic related worth reading, or is it a meme?

>>8739858

this would make for an excellent anime 2bh

>Book 2 still hasn't been dispatched
Fucking bookdepository

Just finished reading this.
Despite knowing the plot already,it was pretty good.
The prose is pretty light in my opinion.

How much of the animated series does the first book cover?

/lit/'s opinion on Japanese light novels getting translated into English? Thinking about picking up the first two "Legend Of The Galactic Heroes" books

>>8245830
A book series. the first volume was just released in English recently, the second comes out later this month, I thinl

I just started reading this, and it's really good.

What are your thoughts on LoGH?

Repostan
Thoughts on this ?

Thoughts on this lads ?

I haven't read your book, but the first English translation of the Legend Of The Galactic Heroes novels was released this month after about 30 years (pic related), I'm about 50% in and it's a lot about the "rise to power" of two opposing commanders in two competing galactic empires, maybe that'll fit?

Has anyone else read this yet? I find that Huddleston's prose is so slavishly devoted to Tanaka's original Japanese text that the path towards the meat of the book quickly becomes a slog. It's easy to lose interest long before the action picks up (no thanks to the unnecessary, lengthy prologue, absent in the fan-favorite anime adaptation). The stately, detached tone is preserved intact, making this novel two parts future history and one part military sci-fi. The somewhat floral word choice is also original, as is the elaborate syntax. Unfortunately, the odd placement and frequent lack of dialog tags, the more frequent use of passive voice, and the epithets used to describe characters are also preserved, in violation of English-language novel conventions. The proofreading is also patchy at times, leading me to wonder whether certain sentences are meant to be the way they are or whether they simply weren't edited for fluency. Unforgivably, there are typographical errors ("srmada") that simply should never have made it into a final draft, let alone a published book.There are also some features, preserved in the translation, that date this book/series quite severely: the discussion of some technologies, and the approach that the future civilizations have to gender equality. Tanaka's nearly 35-year-old plot has aged rather poorly; with its overwhelmingly male-dominated story and shallow female characters, it's hard to find a place for this series among today's more nuanced SF.

In less than half an hour, this book will be available on kindle. I should be getting my copy in the mail tomorrow. Is anybody else excited?