Next to the Bible, The Imitation of Christ is the best-selling book of all time. What most people don’t know is that the book's author, Thomas Á Kempis, wrote other brilliant works, including Consolation for My Soul, which until now has been unavailable to modern day readers. In this new translation, William Griffin has captured the charm and deep spirituality of this monk, who shares abundant wisdom about God and the soul's mystical relationship to the divine.
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What a horrible thing to do to a good book,
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This review is from: Consolations for My Soul: Meditations for the Earthly Pilgrimage Toward the Heavenly Jerusalem (Paperback)
The wisdom of Thomas a Kempis is completely lost in this rather miserable translation. There is no reverence here, only a glib smoothness that I suppose the translator thought clever. If I could rate this with negative numbers for stars, I would.
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Should have a warning label,
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This review is from: Consolations for My Soul: Meditations for the Earthly Pilgrimage Toward the Heavenly Jerusalem (Paperback)
The cover for this book should contain a warning label. It should indicate that this book is somehow based on the work of Thomas Kempis as freely interpreted by William Griffin.
My wife picked this up for me in a Catholic book store pleased to see that Kempis had written other works. I had not been aware of this fact either. I was pleased to get it. The cover announces that it is a "contemporary" translation. In a page labelled "About the Translator" we learn that Mr. Griffin has rendered the same free wheeling interpretation of other Kempis' works. We are told that Griffin has translated spiritual classics "into truly modern English." Granted translators will differ. Often differing translations help the reader to get closer to the author's probable intent. But if this language is truly modern English I fear for the future of the language. Furthermore words such as "puke" have never been part of my vocabulary and I haven't heard the word spoken since I left the military many years ago. So much for modern. I feel cheated and frustrated. It is the only translation of this Kempis work and it is written for, as another reviewer put it, "your inner flower child." I do not have a more conventional translation to help me determine whether Mr. Griffin has done some or no justice to the original. Another reviewer writes that one has to "keep reading" and suggests digging deeper. Thanks for the tip but I'd feel much better digging if I were confident that I am looking at the real Thomas Kempis.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Nauseating!,
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This review is from: Consolations for My Soul: Meditations for the Earthly Pilgrimage Toward the Heavenly Jerusalem (Paperback)
Only for your inner flower child -- cutesy and somewhat embarrassing translation. How could anyone DO this to Thomas a Kempis???
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