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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

hahaha, amazon marketplace, eh? i'm still waiting for my goo deluxe i ordered there back in sept '05.

just searched for fear and loathing... and maldoror and they don't have it, unsurprisingly.

and i can tell you why you liked that version more, a) you are talking about the most beloved figure in modern mexican culture and b) it was translated in mexico, chances are most books are translated, at best, in argentina or spain and even then, when they translate a book, they used their own take on spanish, with slang words and aproximate meanings, trying to avoid all english or foreign words, whether mexican spanish, mostly is used in a more coloquial and cuasual way. and i say "at best" because most of the time they are translated in florida by people who barely speak any language.

yeah, loving pedro infante was written by a new mexican chicana en ingles; the book sucks, but the slang in the spanish translation is so fucking dementedly funny it cracks me up every line.

about maldoror, man, it's in french, written by a uruguayan, fuck gringo translations, at least french and spanish share the framework of latin.

busca esto: Los cantos de Maldoror. Editorial Labor. Traducción de Julio Gómez de la Serna, completada por Manuel Serrat y Henriette Vigulé, prólogo de Ramón Gómez de la Serna. ISBN 84-335-0264-6

fear & loathing you'll have to order the original. "muerte y odio en las vegas"??? ja ja ja ja. bueno al menos "las vegas" se traduce perfecto.

ok. so. enjoy. just get amazon or b/n. if you become a member with b/n ($35, i think cheaper now) you get discounts plus promotions. works very well if you buy lots of stuff.