The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Howard Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Little Prince
Book Review: "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
Summary: 5 Stars
Medicine for the hearts and souls of both grown-ups and children alike. This book brings gifts each time I visit it. Got my copy at bordersstores.com.Book Review: ****Little Prince Reveiw****
Summary: 5 Stars
I think this book was very thouching especially at the end. The more you read it the more you will fully understand it. I think that this books is not one of those books that you read once then forget about it but it tuely speaks to your imangination. I think this book is just wonderful. It shows the child's point of view then the adult that is just amazing, and you even know what they are talking about. It doesn't matter what size this book is, it is wonderfully inspiringBook Review: 10 Star Book, 1 Star Translation
Summary: 1 Stars
Please, people, do not waste your time on the Richard Howard translation. It is childish, simplified, and simply awful. I really think that Richard Howard took this phenomenal, amazing book and tried to make it as devoid of meaning as he could. The new translation is almost like how a five year old would tell it- small, small words and small, small ideas. However- I had the Katharine Woods translation before I bought this one. Do not blame this new error on the author. The Katharine Woods translation is superb. Richard Howards- Not so much.
This review has nothing to do with the book, just its differing translations.
Book Review: 20 now and still love this book
Summary: 5 Stars
I first read "le Petite Prince" in my high school French class and was blown away. I am 20 now and I still love how each time one reads this enchanting tale, they are able to discover a new meaning in each chapter. I have a child of my own now and this will be read to him in hopes that he too will grow and enjoy the simple pleasures this book provides.Book Review: A Beautiful Book Twisted in this Translation
Summary: 1 Stars
Although "The Little Prince" is one of my favorite books and I think everyone should go out (or stay in I suppose :)) and buy a copy, I too feel(see the other one star review below) that the new translation should not be that copy that you pick up. Do yourself a favor and track down a copy of the Katherine Woods version (which seems to have disappeared from stores since the new one came out). As an exaple, compare the line "if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water" (Woods translation) to Howard's which goes: "[if I had fifty-three minutes...]I would walk towards a water fountain".This translation (and this is characteristic of almost every passage in it)saps it of its wistful, bittersweet language, replacing it with sentences which are, frankly, boring as all get out. Howard's translation may or may not be closer to the original French wording, but it takes something I love very much and makes it stale and less magical than when I first read it. In my book, that reads: "Bad Translation".