A Scanner Darkly

[bovlb]

I just finished A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick. I have been listening to it in the car in ten minute snatches on my way to and from work

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[manjushra]

i can help you with the German, if you'll post it.

I noticed that in recent films there has been a trend away from subtitling the bits in other languages. Notably the Bourne films where he and his enemies speak French, German and Russian at various points. I find this great! I've always found subtitles distracting and annoying - the viewer can read them before the speaker can finish, they clog up the screen, break the viewing illusion and remind you that you are watching a TV, and prevent me feeling smug bc "I know what he just said!". But what the screenwriters are trying to do to the non-linguists in the audience I have no idea.

[bovlb]

i can help you with the German, if you'll post it.

Alas I don't have the text, and my ear is not good enough to transcribe the audio.

[manjushra]

you write with your ear??

So many things are different across the sea.

[nickbarnes]

roughly how many pages
Each of the Aubrey-Maturin books, which everyone should read, is printed with a 10-20 page essay or article following the novel, and advertising blurbs for other books in the series.
In combination with O'Brian's habit of ending the novels quite abruptly, this has a remarkable effect on the feeling of reading the last couple of chapters of each novel.

[mijopo]

"set in a dystopian Orange County, California in the then-future of June 1994"

Wow, sounds remarkably prescient. :)