Is anyone still reading this?

[Zounoko]

No need for a body... the heading is self-explanatory.

The Elephant's Child

[Fukumori]

Define "this"...?

[Schattenjedi]

Fukumori wrote:
Define "this"...?

I'm going to take a wild guess and suppose that he is referring to "The Elephant's Child".

[richvh]

No, I think he means 夜のくもざる (look at the forum he posted in), and as it happens, I recently resumed reading it. I'm currently on 虫窪老人の襲撃.

[Zounoko]

Thanks, Rich. I ordered the book (from White Rabbit Press) shortly after I joined, and it took a month to get here, not sure why.

Anyway, I got it yesterday, read ホルン last night before class, and I'll do my best to catch up.

The Elephant's Child

[clay]

It would be nice to keep this going especially since so many people bought the book.

Let's post any problems, questions or interesting (to you) passages.

[Zounoko]

I've read several little... sketches I guess might be the word... so far. Had to stop to finish a bunch of dictionary entries.

It's surprisingly tough -- not the vocabulary so much, but getting plunged into a detailed fantasy world every couple of pages and having to figure out what is going on. If you misunderstand a sentence, or misconstrue the relationship between a couple of sentences, you can get tangled up.

This happened to me on the フリオ・イグレシアスsketch. I must have reread that first paragraph twenty times trying to get my bearings...

The Elephant's Child

[ashitaka]

I never heard of it. Should i pick it up?

[BigKahuna13]

Actually just picked it up also and began reading ホルン last night.
Which story is everyone else reading at this point?

[hungryhotei]

ashitaka wrote:
I never heard of it. Should i pick it up?

I really enjoyed it, although (or maybe because) a lot of the stories didn't really make much sense. It's definately worth a read, especially since so many other people here have read it too. Each story is only a few pages long so it's not so hard to read either.

[coco]

BigKahuna13 wrote:
Actually just picked it up also and began reading ホルン last night.
Which story is everyone else reading at this point?

ここが『ホルン』のスレッドです。
もしわからないところがあったら、遠慮なく質問してください。

[BigKahuna13]

ありがとう。。。