Post from the Zoethout forum
I’ve already encountered various typos and bad sentences.. makes me wonder if she had an editor
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This is a Dutch book and it’s written in a dialect(ish) way and I don’t really enjoy that.. I’m reading this for the Leesjury and felt like this would be the one of the worst books — I’m hoping to be wrong but this ain’t promising…
By dialect I mean calling women bitches (the word wijf is used, for which the direct English translation genuinely means bitch) and using words I otherwise don’t really know because I’ve never learned any sort of dialect..
Post from the Pagebound Club forum
I’m in the Leesjury, which is a book club in the entirety of Flanders, so the books are always in Dutch. The thing is, how do you post stuff for that? I’m currently reading Zoethout by Marita De Sterck and I despise the writing and wanted to complain about it in a post — so instead of having to type the awful quote once, i had to type it, translate it, edit the translation and then post it. Add to that that I am not a good translator lol
I mainly just hope people will actually read that post because I did not go through the torture of all that to be the only one to have to read it 😃 But yeah, I love sharing my thoughts because it also helps me remember the book better (though idk if i want to remember this one) so I prefer having to work to translate stuff than to not share my thoughts at all :)
Post from the Zoethout forum
“Gossip is like farting. Great relief in the belly! Until the neighborhood smells so bad that people gasp for air and succumb on the spot. But then it is too late. Because just like farts, gossip can't be put back in the hole they flew from.”
(I had to translate this passage from Dutch to English, so it may not be a perfect translation)
I already want to stop reading. What even is this? This book is supposed to be a thriller.
Post from the Zoethout forum
This is a Dutch book and it’s written in a dialect(ish) way and I don’t really enjoy that.. I’m reading this for the Leesjury and felt like this would be the one of the worst books — I’m hoping to be wrong but this ain’t promising…
By dialect I mean calling women bitches (the word wijf is used, for which the direct English translation genuinely means bitch) and using words I otherwise don’t really know because I’ve never learned any sort of dialect..
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