Hey literary nerds! I want to read the Epic of Gilgamesh. Recommend me a version, if you please.

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Skanko said, (345 days ago)

They wrote a book about this guy?
huh.

http://tinyurl.com/fkdxv

Ethan said, (345 days ago)

Yeah, they wrote lots of books about him, but he's not Gilgamesh. JOKER.

Ethan said, (345 days ago)

I'm just going to get some Penguin Classics version for a penny on Amazon or something.

Mycroft said, (345 days ago)

The Robert Silverberg "version" was pretty good.

Ethan said, (344 days ago)

"Are" "those" "quotes" "a" "dig"?

Mycroft said, (344 days ago)

@Ethan Well, "Gilgamesh The King" is a novel, rather than a translation. It depends what you're after.

Ethan said, (344 days ago)

Yeah, I should've said translation, really. I don't want some crap modernized version of it.

Ethan said, (337 days ago)

Not that anyone is interested, but my 99-cent Penguin Classics copy arrived yesterday, and the thing is about 100 pages long, with more than half of it being introduction and glossary. That's practically a single-sitting bathroom book!

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