I feel like I’m going a little bit crazy, so hoping someone can help me out with this. I’m reading the French and English at the same time - I’m a translator so I’m interested in that comparison. I have the Global Publishers ebook edition, and the English is the 1946 Stuart Gilbert translation as far as I can tell.

There is a HUGE chunk missing at the end of the English version of part 2 chapter 2: that edition ends the chapter with “I even tore off splinters from my plank bed and sucked them.” Then it goes right into the same opening of chapter 3 as in the French.

But there’s a whole piece missing, about 4.5 pages - the section that discusses memory and the newspaper article about the Czech man is entirely missing. I also searched to see whether it was placed elsewhere in the book but couldn’t find it.

What’s happening here?? Is anyone else reading this English edition, and does your chapter 2 end that way?!

Edited to add that I found another instance of this abridgment later on: a full 8 pages were cut from the end of Part 2, Chapter 4. I think that one is more plausibly for political reasons, and I’ll make a separate post for it!

While looking through what books I already physically have, I'd thought of starting Magnus Chase once I'm done with Legendborn, but I told myself off because I have too many series started that I gotta finish. Since I don't know how many, I decided to count them.

There are 5:

• Heroes of Olympus, technically only have to read the last one, but I consider trials of Apollo, the addictions to the Percy Jackson series, the books about Nico and Will and all the other ones in the Greek/Roman gods' universe to be form the same series. Which means I actually have infinite amounts of books ahead.

• Legendborn, just started. For now I know that it's a trilogy. But when I started Percy Jackson I didn't think that was infinite either, so I guess anything's possible.

• Way of kings, also just started. For what I understand there are two pentalogies and only the first one is completely.

• Mistborn, two trilogies plus spin offs and prequels

• Aristotle and Dante, weirdly enough, a duology, only one book left

There are actually other 3 series I've started, but those I don't think I'm going to read more of.

All of this means that, considering the books that have been published and the ones that have been announced, I need to read around 38 books to finish all these series😬

Are y'all in my same situation, or far worse/better?

I wanna start off by saying im aware PageBound is focusing on genre specific quests rather than universe/author ones and that the existing ones are quite old. This is just for fun and im curious to see what others think 🤭

Hypothetically if you were able to create a universe/author specific quest right now, which would you choose and why? The more niche and unique, the better! And ofcourse as a bonus, what badge should such quest have? :0

Im honestly unsure myself, as some authors have books that are unconnected and won’t fit nicely in a quest and some universes are so small they’ll barely fill up a side quest 😩 looking forward to seeing yall’s ideas ✨

i might dnf this one i don’t understand anything