Dead trees reborn

[muckefuck]

Well, my own answers to the survey I posted (have you answered it yet?) will just have to wait since I need to meet my hubby soon and I just remembered an entry that I wanted to do in honour of St. George's Day or. (For explanations, see last year's entry.) This is not a list of favourites or classics or recommendations, it is simply a roundup of--

Books I Plan to Read Again

• Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God


• Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō The Makioka Sisters (細雪, English trans.)


• Ende, Michael Der unendliche Geschichte


• Tolkien, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings (trilogy)


• Eco, Umberto Foucault's Pendulum (Il pendolo di Foucault, English trans.)


• Simmons, Dan Hyperion


• Luo Guanzhong The Three Kingdoms (三國志演義, English trans.)

I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of them right now.

Comments

[keyne.livejournal.com]

You, of all people, should know that LotR is not a trilogy. :-)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Tolkien's sketchy conceptions are of no interest to me. The Lord of the Rings boxed set that I have at home consists of three volumes; ergo, it is a triology.

[lhn.livejournal.com]

Though by that standard it's also (based only on versions in my possession) a single-volume work, a heptalogy, and an ulogy (or should that be "oulogy"?).

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I thought the original had five "Books". Why do you have a version published in seven?

[lhn.livejournal.com]

I thought the original had five "Books".

Six, actually.¹

Why do you have a version published in seven?

That edition packages the appendices as a seventh volume, each with one of the letters of "Tolkien" on the spine.

¹"The Ring Sets Out", "The Ring Goes South", "The Treason of Isengard", "The Ring Goes East", "The War of the Ring", and "The End of the Third Age". Not, perhaps, the most intriguing titles in literary history, but he was pushing for one-volume publication from the beginning. Those titles and the three-volume version were both pretty much afterthoughts. (And at that, he regretted The Return of the King, which is sort of a spoiler for a major event in that volume.) The internal books wound up "Book I" throught "Book VI" in most editions.

[princeofcairo.livejournal.com]

Hell, it's barely a novel.