A review by soavezefiretto
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon

4.0

I decided to give this four stars because I am sure it is a great, thoughtful, helpful and well researched book. I'm sure there's humor in there, tons of interesting, heartwarming and, well yes, depressing stories, and I'm sure it can help many people understand what depression is - if any book can do that.

I say I'm sure this is so because I suffered so much reading the Spanish translation of this that I just don't know. There were entire paragraphs I didn't quite understand, entire chapters that bored me to death, which was extremely weird and frustrating, because here I was, reading an obviously great book about a subject that interests me, and I consistently fall asleep? I seriously considered mono at one point. But it wasn't. It was just a bad translation. And not even the worst I've ever read. But bad enough.

I've learned my lesson though. No more translations into Spanish. Of anything. Ever.