tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post1685227097206520180..comments2024-03-27T22:32:02.739+01:00Comments on Beneath the Stains of Time: Just Another Face in the CrowdTomCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-10824976909065534132012-05-07T15:07:39.534+02:002012-05-07T15:07:39.534+02:00After pigging out on French-language detective sto...After pigging out on French-language detective stories you still want to counter this single purchase... you are quite hopeless, my friend. ;)TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-71477625188231033792012-05-07T15:01:13.290+02:002012-05-07T15:01:13.290+02:00Well, I'm just not into Rampomania. I liked th...Well, I'm just not into Rampomania. I liked the short story collection <i>Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination</i>, "The Stalker in the Attic" and the essays collected in <i>The Edogawa Rampo Reader</i>, but the rest of his work that appeared in translations was only so-so at best. Edogawa Rampo was an important writer who deserves to be translated, but when the flow of translations comes in trickles I prefer to read books written in the GAD style. *<i>here's hoping</i>*TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-2789810260477767752012-05-05T17:02:51.312+02:002012-05-05T17:02:51.312+02:00Tom Cat, don't make me pull out my credit card...Tom Cat, don't make me pull out my credit card and buy the new French translation of a Keigo Higashino novel just to counter this sneak-attack! I already have Yokomizo's THE VILLAGE OF THE EIGHT GRAVES sitting on my shelf leering at me... (Now how in the blazes can I learn to read Japanese???)<br /><br />But seriously, great to hear that some Japanese detective fiction is being translated, even if it sounds somewhat predictable. I personally want to translate S. A. Steeman's THE MURDERER LIVES AT NO. 21 over my summer break... but that would cut into my reading time even more than my job at Toyota does! (Hey look, another Japanese connection! Damn! It's a conspiracy!!!)Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01844617192737950378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-38884713755483354552012-05-05T13:32:11.974+02:002012-05-05T13:32:11.974+02:00Well, to be honest, I am a bit surprised, also bec...Well, to be honest, I am a bit surprised, also because I received my own copies only last week. So yeah, it was a bit faster than expected! You should definitely not have felt obliged to read this just because I wrote the preface, though I really appreciate it ;P<br /><br />I still enjoy these novels (even though I definitely did not read them when I was young), because I just feel the fun Rampo had when writing these stories. Rampo manages a great mix between Lupin, Holmes and his own characteristic style of story-telling. I would definitely have loved to have read this when I was young. (though the preface shows that this is also interesting for those into Rampomania :#)Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.com