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Re: What's your favorite League character author
I do read and speak French (though the latter has been questioned in the past), and your father was correct.
I wish I could say this is a historic error that has been corrected, but to this day I still find less than trustworthy translations from supposedly highbrow publishers. It's really up to the individual translator. I've read some of the annotated versions done by Walter James Miller that were pretty accurate.
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I'm not for a moment surprised by Jules Verne's poor showing in this little poll. Most of his work, over the years, has been in piss-poor translation from the French..or so I've been told. I don't read or speak French, but my father did, and he had nothing but contempt for most translations of Verne.
Yeah, I've heard that too... so I choose that as my excuse for never having read much Verne. 
I'll still go with HRH as my favo(u)rite (  ), but I've finally gotten around to reading Edgar Rice Burroughs recently and they're great too... soft spot for slightly racist, xenophobic, Anglo-centric African-adventure novels, I guess!
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I suppose the most remarkable thing about Edger Rice Boroughs is his portrayal of the Great Apes(Gorilla's).In a time when most authors portrayed the gentle Gorilla as a monster.It was certainly far seeing of him to portray them as he did breaking away from the stereotype of the killer ape that most authors of African adventure novels used.
A sad fact is,that over the past few years,numbers of the Eastern Lowland Gorilla have been reduced from 17,000 to little more that 2000.and they face the very real threat of extinction caused by the real killer ape,man.
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I'll still go with HRH as my favo(u)rite ( ), but I've finally gotten around to reading Edgar Rice Burroughs recently and they're great too... soft spot for slightly racist, xenophobic, Anglo-centric African-adventure novels, I guess!
Semi-Inherent Pseudo-Englishness... marvellous...! 
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Semi-Inherent Pseudo-Englishness... marvellous...!
 
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H G Wells
Just finished Well's Food of the Gods.Must say it's excellent read and I highly recommend it.Quite amazing how relevant the book is in todays world of Genetic modification(or engineering to give it it's old name).It shows the folly and short sightedness of "well meaning"scientists.And perhaps the conflicts that could be the result of whats going on in todays world of scientific advancement.All this from a book a 100 years old.
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I read Conan Doyle's 'The day the Earth Screamed' (I think I've remembered the title a little innacurately) and it lifted the top of my head off in its weirdness, especially when compared to his usual output. I've yet to read 'the poison belt' in full, but I think his interest in spuritualism (hmm- interesting freudian slip) soon took over.
BTW did anyone catch that rather lavish 'HG Wells plays science detective' thingy on the TV? Mondo Bizzarro.
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BTW did anyone catch that rather lavish 'HG Wells plays science detective' thingy on the TV? Mondo Bizzarro.
...nope. What was this then?!
I've only ever seen Mr Wells on 'The New Adventures of Superman'...
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It was rather a glossy well produced show- in the same vein as the 1980's Sherlock Holmes' series, but made by someone unexpected like Hallmark;
I only caught the last half hour of what must have been an hour long show;
A framing story set in the '40s at a secret government research bunker, has an elderly HG Wells reminiscing about his days as a dashing young science writer, researching his books and getting involved with strange scientific phoenomena. The 'Sherlock Holmes meets the X-files' pitch sounds stupendously cheesey, and I was gritting my teeth in dread, but they actually managed to pull something special out of the bag by doing it as a 'straight', well written period drama, helped enourmously by the use of location filming.
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