I just saw the xkcd for the astroid and the Little Prince, I found it appaling. I remembered that back in the day, my mom and I used to read a translated version of the Little Prince in Chinese. The impression it had on me isn't profound as I don't think we finished the book, yet there is something mystique about the illustrations and the loneliness of the person.
The curiosity was there when Randall published the comic, and the comic spurred the curiosity even more. Wikipedia was my first (and only...) stop. After looking around, the urge to click on other links on the page kicked in. As a result I landed here.
Some stuff I noticed:
- The Little Red Book by some estimate has more copies printed and shippied than the Bible, even though there's some 1500 years difference in age.
- Out of the top 6 top books, 4 of them are in Chinese including the Xinhua dictionary (which I have a copy of)
- The first actual novel, "Tale of Two Cities", to rank is an extremely hard read (at least to me, still a good novel though, I may had to sparknotes the majority of it...).
- "Mien Kampf" which sold 10 million copies (I'm assume not many people would buy it now), that means that 16% of the popluation had the book back in 1922. No wonder Hitler got into power.
-runiteking1
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