The translation is unfortunately not particularly good.
580878
Certainly one of the most cited work in the field of Islamism. Although written in 1984, some of Kepel's predictions are still relevant in 2016. The translation is unfortunately not particularly good.
2797924
IMHO, i love the idea of the story. it's beautifully crafted and segmented but the translation seems stilted at points throughout the narration by the main character. i'm sure the original story written in Chinese would hold much more dear to me, if only i could read in that language.
84537
Apparently some people really like this English translation over the King James Version.

I really don't see that much of a difference.

In all honesty, content wise, there is nothing here that you won't get in 99% of all the other translations out there. Though I guess I should maybe say 80% as there are some recent translation that just MIGHT do more harm than good.

Book wise, this is terrible. It is basically a book someone scanned and did an OCR trace on. There was not even an attempt made to clean up the title page, or give a proper cover.

I give it four stars because as bad as it is as a book, it is a free version of the Geneva Bible. That alone warrants four stars in my book. Not because it is a bible, but because it is a sought after work (In come circles) and you can get it on the Kindle for free, and use the search function to get around. Yep, four stars in my book.

Carry on.
4055152
I kinda like the setting for this book and the plot is pretty good.  The problem is that it reads as if it were poorly translated from another language.
3260273
The translation is absolutely awful. It looks the book was translated by the computer, not a person expert in Wolf's work and literary spanish.
4567086
The story itself is good. The book is probably great in Japanese, at least as good as the anime, if not better. Unfortunately, the translator apparently isn't a writer. If this book was published in English first and these words were the actual words of the writer it wouldn't get published. The story is great but how it's delivered is flawed. It's a shame since I looked forward to reading the novel but as a writer I feel pretty demoralized as if editing and word choice don't matter. In English there are a lot of synonyms. It's possible to say that someone, "procured a conveyence" when you mean they, "got a car." Whether you use the one or the other determines story tone and character. This entire thing uses the fancier words when, based on the type of characters these are, only Alciel would frequently talk in such a way.
4233773
Might be a bad translation, but sad sentence structure and too many obvious, unnecessary comments. Need a decent editor.
2887275
Not a great translation. Getting rhyming patterns to match is tough in another language. Huevos verdes con jamon is a much better translation of a Dr. Seuss book.
3296895
The book is awesome, but it is very difficult to read and understand due to the archaic wording and sentence structure.  I would recommend a more modern translation
4496204
I urge the editors to hire a team of translators and proof readers who actually speak Spanish and print a revised edition. The cards are beautiful and inspiring (English version) but the Spanish version is less than acceptable due to the terrible translation. The least they could have done was to use the alphabetical order for the meanings of the cards that are in the booklet that comes with the deck.
4498716
I wanted to like this translation after all the nice things that D.S. Carne-Ross said about it in the useful and enjoyable "Horace in English." But this is a translation that is made more for image-by-image accuracy than for the ear. Often you read Ferry describing the right word rather than saying it. (Phrases like "too unrestrainedly joyful in good fortune" read like a dictionary entries.) In the difficult-to-render i. 5 he ends up phrasing things like Yoda - "Hapless are they enamored of that beauty." Too academic are they who write as this one.
4627896
It seems that this book was translated. It was hard to get true meanings of what the principles had said.
3352098
I should be giving this book a 5 star review because the content merits it.  However, the translation makes it a stop and go feeling; meaning that you get into a flow of a few sentences, and then you have to stop and re-read some sentences to get a sense of what's going on.

This is a story of an adult talking to a child about very important and relevant wellbeing concepts - but the flow is just not there - bumber!  This book should have been handed over to a native english speaker for review.
308853
Very much mixed feelings about this book.  Mostly a straight-forward mystery, with an underlying paranormal slant.  The story is good, the character developments are also pretty good.  The translation is what degrades the overall effect of the book.  I felt there was too much trying to pull in idiomatic English.  Perhaps idiomatic French does not come across in English, or perhaps the translator took it upon himself to try to translate in such a way as to grab the English speaking audience.  If there are other books from this author, it would be better to have the translation be better.  I probably would have given this 3.5 stars if we could.
4915035
I liked the story, but the historical references are not too rich, and the translation has many errors.
4074328
The pictures are GORGEOUS!! But the words are . . . meh. I feel like this was possibly translated and perhaps something got lost in translation. The idea of the story is a good one (if enemies realized they are connected and their outcome affects each other they might not be enemies) and incorporates the idea of balance (as well as a simple machine: lever), connectedness, understanding, empathy, and compassion. But there is just something about the actual words themselves that isn't quite up to par. They are awkward and bulky, but in the end do their job.
1588878
Three-and-a-half stars, really. I want to truly love this Bible, but I have issues with the translation. I need cite only Psalm 110: "Lord, You said for Jesus to come sit at your right hand while You put His enemies under Your feet..." Compare to the KJV, NKJV, ESV, NLT, NASB, NAS, JB, NJB, you pick it, and you will see what I mean ... This is only one example of many, and if you know Christ, you know he was never so explicitly mentioned in the Old Testament. On the other hand, it clearly isn't wrong to presuppose this; this is the true "Gospel in all scripture" approach. However, on another level, I find this "blatant prophetic referencing" (don't know what else to call it) useful, but be cautious and use this Bible side-by-side with a more literal translation. The prayer content is top-notch, and is very useful. My hardcover copy is of really nice quality and printed in the USA.