Read-in-Progress Wednesday

[geraineon]

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

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Comments

[aurumcalendula]

Seeking Immortality in Vain! I also just started checking out a fan translation of The Bride With White Hair.

[larryhammer]

have fun with Bride/Demoness -- it's surprisingly fun, amid some of the incoherence. Is this a new translation, or the one that's been around for a decade-plus?

[aurumcalendula]

It's the one that's been around for a while I think (it's translated by Faerie Queene, Foxs and Ren Wo Xing). As a side note, I was kinda surprised at all the translation variations w/r/t the title

[larryhammer]

That's the translation I know. I'd translate 白髮魔女傳 as something like "Romance of White-Haired Enchantress," but 魔女 is a notoriously ... broad spectrum word.

[geraineon]

Oh that's a classic!

I've never read it but have watched adaptations of it. How's the translation?

[aurumcalendula]

I think it's decent so far - some of terminology is different than what I'm used to (possibly a result of it being from 2010 or so) and there's some typos, but I'm finding it very readable.

(There's an archived version of the forum thread it was originally posted on here. I can share the ebook version that used to be hosted on Wuxia Society (they seem to be redoing their website), if anyone's interested in it being added to the resource folder).