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Asterix The Gaul
Asterix The Gaul: Album 1 | René Goscinny
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The year is 50BC, and all Gaul is occupied. Only one small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. But how much longer can Asterix, Obelix and their friends resist the mighty Roman legions of Julius Caesar? Anything is possible, with a little cunning plus the druid Getafix's magic potions! Their effects can be truly hair-raising...
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swynn
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I now have a 180-day streak on Duolingo, and am putting the acquired skills to practical use, absorbing the timeless literature of the Gauls.

kwmg40 A great choice! I too enjoy practicing French with Asterix and friends. 1y
swynn And so many of them! I have the next on the way. 1y
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nosferatu
Asterix The Gaul: Album 1 | René Goscinny
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I‘ve decided to tackle this series more systematically after reading a few random volumes over the years. What a surprise, the first story is great!

KCofKaysville @nosferatu I loved several of these many years ago! A lot of fun. Not very pc tho'. 2y
nosferatu It‘s true! That‘s also my main issue with most of the early Tintin books. 2y
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TimSpalding
Asterix The Gaul: Album 1 | René Goscinny
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New publisher picked up Asterix “retranslated†it. It seems like they just removed from dated, sometimes offensive jokes. But there‘s a paradox here. The original Asterix has pretty terrible stereotypes of Africans and Jews (a.k.a. Phoenicians). Redrawing cant and isn‘t being done. So do you want to try to “update†the text? As a kid I got that it was an artifact… of the past and another country. The text

TimSpalding … screams it. My kid gets it too. He points it out to me! If you update all the cultural references, you‘ll erase that awareness of distance. You‘ll be saying to kids “this is real life now.†And the basic racism and sexism of the text will be brought forward and given a new shine. 4y
TimSpalding This is the paradox of updating. Instead, let old things be old, and teach kids how to understand that and stand apart from it. Don‘t try to update, because you‘ll fail to make it modern, yet erase the markers that tell kids to read it as a product of its time—stand apart from it. 4y
TimSpalding (Partially adapted from a Twitter rant!) 4y
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TheEllieMo
Asterix The Gaul: Album 1 | René Goscinny
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I‘m a late arrival to the #30JuneBooks, so apologies if I‘m doing it wrong!

Not sure if this counts as a #PictureBook, but it was the first thing that came to mind when I read the prompt. I loved and read avidly the adventures of Asterix and Obelix when I was a child!

@howjessreads

tournevis Well, bandes-dessinées have pictures, so yeah? 5y
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Yossarian
Asterix the Gaul (Revised) | René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo
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Now I'm no anthropologist, but this morning I couldn't find the scissors, so I dug through some drawers and found these under some papers. I've never seen them before, but the available evidence indicates that they are scissors from ancient France from up to 3,000 years ago.

Can't decide whether to use them as no cutters or contact the museum.

MrBook 😂ðŸ‘🻠7y
tpixie 😆😜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜„ 7y
Laura317 Donate, because that would take a lot of "Gaul" to use such an artifact! ?? 7y
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Cinfhen 🤣🤣🤣 7y
Lmstraubie You need to frame them in one of those neat, little shadow boxes. 😂 7y
Andrea4 😂😂😂 7y
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