English translations

[lannamichaels]

I've got a weekend family thing happening, so naturally I want to bring the Brick with me and hopefully finish the parts of it I haven't read yet. I've been reading the Hapgood translation on Project Gutenburg, but that's an ebook. I've got the following dead tree translations on hold at the library and was wondering which is considered the best/you like better?

• Charles E. Wilbour
  
• Julie Rose
  
• Norman Denny
  

Comments

[opabine]

Wilbour has some lovely turns of phrase - FmA's modernization works well a lot of the time, but some scenes lose a bit of their flair (compare "grasped his hand" to "shook his hand", for example, Wilbour being 'grasped').
But yes, the FmA is the most reliable on the whole.