Talk:Ice (Dukaj novel)

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A fact from Ice (Dukaj novel) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 January 2008 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Lód, the most recent book by Polish science-fiction writer Jacek Dukaj, is an alternate history novel of over 1000 pages?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/January.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:04, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Critical reception[edit]

The paragraph beginning with "Wojciech Orliński in his review[4]..." is in my opinion out of place - having a Ludlum-like plot is not necessarily an advantage for an s-f book (and as far as "Lód" is concerned, I think its plot is rather sloppy and if it has anything "Ludlum" about it, then it's rather in a negative sense). Moreover, IMHO Orliński is completely wrong in the angle from which he views the book (he focuses almost entirely on "Polish-historical" aspects of the novel and says next to nothing about other concepts such as many-valued logic, alternative physics, religious stuff etc.), so regarding an inaccurate review as "critical reception" is not the best thing to do in a paragraph that's somehow intended to praise the book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.26.73.236 (talk) 13:59, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that's what Orliński states. There are not many sources (reviews) to go around; feel free to expand the section with other sources, as far as I know his review is the only one out there so far.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 12:38, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Title[edit]

I don't think we should use the English title as the title of the article if a book hasn't been officially translated yet. Ausir (talk) 12:55, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There has been no consensus on this in the past; I will not object to a move nor will I support it.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 12:38, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

English translation is OK per WP:NC-BK#Title translations. Visor (talk) 00:52, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]