I agree with you about Alexandre Dumas, and would point out that "Three Musketeers" at least is even better in the original than in translation.
I rather enjoyed Plato's Life of Socrates when I first read it, but I was too young then to spot the flaws.
Some day I will have to finish reading War and Peace. I have a plain-text copy on my PC as test data for computer programs that claim they have no size limit on input fields, but I've only ever read chapter 1 (which may give you some idea how good theose claims are).
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Date: 2009-04-08 11:24 am (UTC)I rather enjoyed Plato's Life of Socrates when I first read it, but I was too young then to spot the flaws.
Some day I will have to finish reading War and Peace. I have a plain-text copy on my PC as test data for computer programs that claim they have no size limit on input fields, but I've only ever read chapter 1 (which may give you some idea how good theose claims are).