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Title: Trite and tiresome translation.
Review: Though fun for the first few pages, the terrible rhythm it sticks to, and the degree to which it is willing to mangle a sentence to preserve a pointless rhyme scheme and aforementioned rhythm soon cause you to flip to the back of the book to check how many pages of this drivel you are going to have to endure. Although I persevered to the end, if I had it to do over again, I would have put it down at that point, and gone and bought another translation. I am still working up the courage to attempt another translation - I would hate to find out that Rumi was this annoying in the original.Seriously - pick a different version.
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