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All of the reviews for all of the versions available on Amazon seem to be collected in one batch and then applied to each and every edition. I mistakenly ordered a version that had a couple of excellent translation reviews that turned out not to be for the edition I got. I only noticed this as I got into the book and realized that the typos were going to make it impossible for me to finish -- although I was enjoying the translation I have, whichever one it might be. In the rendition I received, at least once per line the space between words has been omitted. You get used to "inthe" instead of "in the" but it gets a lot harder when the the two words joined need you to stop and spend time to figure them out -- if only briefly. I came back to Amazon to see if a different edition would work for me, and that's when I discovered that the reviews are all applied to all of the editions. I am stymied. I am determined to read this book but I don't read French. I don't want to keep shelling out my Kindle budget on sub-par translations or versions riddled with typographical mine-fields. I don't know where I'll go from here.
January 2019 · Books · verified purchase
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Les Misérables
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