*literature YOU'd recommend*

[hypnotel]

friends and colleagues,

as we all know German can be quite an uncomfortable language - to read, to speak, to write.
It's certainly a pity having to read some great piece of art, or work of science that has been translated to German carelessly.
For those capable of the language, be it more or less, original English versions may provide a greater joy or purpose of reading.


Since another user also pointed towards this in the starting thread, I'd like you to recommend English literature of whatever content, right here.
Not to speak of movies, who's gonna start that thread..?

please go ahead!


Short reviews, links, quotes and whatever you like are appreciated too... but please consider matters of legality

[hypnotel]

Let me start with standards...

I personally enjoyed Salinger's 'Catcher in the rye' much more than 'Der Fänger im Roggen' which we read in German class half a life ago. It's weird too, but I sense a different protagonist here
Same thing with 'Lord of the flies' - the German translation does not really convey the characters' situative psychopathologies to me, as does the original text...


why, I'm longing for some of you to name authors like Bukowski, Kerouac, Burroughs...

[Books]

John Steinbeck's novel "Of mice and men" capture the atmosphere of the southern states and the job of agriculture worker better than the film with John Malkovich in the leading role did. The characters in the novel were described in more details and in a more colourful way, than the film can show.

ok, it's not perfect english, but I have tried my very best.
P.S: is this what you mean?

[Feuerblick]

Harper Lee´s "To kill a mocking bird" - never ever try to read it in German!

[Books]

Harper Lee´s "To kill a mocking bird" - never ever try to read it in German!

also the translation of the title is wrong, cause a mocking bird isn't a nightingale