A review by rheckner
Lao-Tzu's Taoteching: With Selected Commentaries from the Past 2,000 Years by Laozi

5.0

This is a translation done correctly. It is at once poetic, well-phrased, and accurate. Furthermore, Red Pine includes both selections from generations of commentaries so that readers can better understand the text and translation notes so that one can get a sense of the choice he made in rendering the Classical Chinese into English. I think this ought to become the standard edition of the Taoteching in English, unlike a certain rendition that attempts to do the ineffable.