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Re: A short review.

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 7:25 pm
by Drakeule
Jameron wrote:
Drakeule wrote:You can get the Australian english version of I am behind you from Book Depository. The translation is a bit off in spots though.
A "bit off" as in; obviously Australian, or not an accurate translation from Swedish?

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I don't think the translator is familiar with English terms. And they did make at least one direct mistake that I caught and metoo confirmed involving a gun. It's readable, but if Marlaine Delargy is doing the UK/US version I'd wait.

Re: A short review.

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 10:40 am
by Jameron
Drakeule wrote:
Jameron wrote:
Drakeule wrote:You can get the Australian english version of I am behind you from Book Depository. The translation is a bit off in spots though.
A "bit off" as in; obviously Australian, or not an accurate translation from Swedish?

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I don't think the translator is familiar with English terms. And they did make at least one direct mistake that I caught and metoo confirmed involving a gun. It's readable, but if Marlaine Delargy is doing the UK/US version I'd wait.
Yeah, I think I'll wait.

Is it available in hardback? The Book Depository only have it in paperback.

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Edit - I've emailed Quercus and asked them when it will be released.

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Re: A short review.

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 3:24 pm
by Drakeule
Yeah, all I could get was paperback. If there is a version with a better translator let me know. I feel I may not have liked it as much as I could have if it had been properly done.

Re: A short review.

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 11:46 pm
by Jameron
Got a reply from Quercus. They plan to release the book in hardback during 2017. Nothing more specific, sorry.

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Re: A short review.

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 3:01 am
by PeteMork
Just ordered it on Amazon. Hardcover and paperback are available.

Re: A short review.

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2020 8:31 am
by danielmann861
Hello all! It’s been a long time since I’ve been on this site, but I’m glad it still exists, I really would be surprised if anyone remembers me.

I recently got back into the Lindqvist mood and finally got around to starting this book. About 138 pages in.

I’m intrigued. I don’t know where this is going. I’m literally at the part where he has returned to the apartment building. I’ve been intrigued thus far though. It’s had me gripped for the last three days just reading about his younger days as a magician, the story of the abused boy in the woods, the laundry block (and the strange happenings in the laundry block)

Yeah, I’m intrigued as to where it’s all going. I’m enjoying it. Once I’m done with this I will probably go back to I Am Behind You and read through that as well. But this one has me both hooked and intrigued as to where it’s all going.