Adventures of Asterix Survivor - Asterix in Britain is the Survivor!!!!!

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Oh, I hadn't seen that one.

Will be hard for me to eliminate some, but I can try.

Eliminate: La serpe d'or

Keep:Astérix et les Goths

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Hmm, I have read them several times between 7 and 17 years old, and haven't since then, then I hope I don't miss things. Anyhow I think my favorites are those of the beginning except the 2 first ones.

Then:

3 Asterix and the Golden Sickle (1960) - La Serpe d'or (as I said, maybe the one I enjoyed the less along with 'Asterix the Gaul', but I'd be curious to reread both of them more than 10 years later)

2 Asterix in Spain (1969) - Astérix en Hispanie (oh dear that red small boy annoyed me)

1 Asterix in Switzerland (1970) - Astérix chez les Helvètes (how I disliked this orgie scene in the beginning...)

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(OMG, Bunwah, how can you vote for Helvetia and Hispania... 2 classics, really, even though a bit less than Corsica...)

Eh, as I said for me, my best memories are from the 10 first ones. Not only indeed, but as I said in the beginning too, except the 2 first ones, and well, I didn't even dared reading the last Uderzo one, for my sake, I can't find one I really disliked!

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Maybe we haven't had enough opportunities yet, but I'm surprised no point has been given to the Big Fight and the Great Crossing.

Two of which I kept quite good memories!

Especially the former.

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Finally I'll switch to Caesar's gift, of which I have almost no memory at all anymore.

Caesar's gift
Helvetia

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Eliminate:
2 Hispania
1 Helvetia

Keep:
Goths

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I liked Belgium, and I associate it to big good food.

3 Helvetia
2 Hispania
1 Laurel Wreth

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Hispania
Laurel Wreath

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Oh, Cauldron, each time I think about it I can smell the onion on coins... It's also in that one that I learned the meaning of 'banni' (banned), Astérix banned from the village, was kinda dramatic...

ELIMINATE:  Asterix and the Laurel Wreath

KEEP:  Asterix and the Big Fight

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Laurel Wreath
Ok, let's spare Soupaloignonycrouton during a round, and join the fight against Normans, who scared that teen iirc. I liked the Norman landscapes in that one though. Normans

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Goths and Big fight are amongst my favorites

3 The annoying little red kid
2 Legionary
1 Company

And yeah, I kept a rather good memory of Corsica's one too, and having been in Corsica years after having read it, I think it well renders the sadness/sullenness there is there. The battle of tribes in the end of it was great.

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Banquet and Cleopatra aren't excellent, though they are very good.
But I guess it will be VERY hard to oust Cleopatra... and, as for the Banquet, this Tour of Gaul is, in itself, funny.

Those who remain are indeed all likeable.
Really, Goths and Big Fight are one level under the others here.

Yeah, dunno why, but seems Cleopatra remains for most people 'THE big Astérix', at least in France, and this before the big movie has been done on it.

Banquet (well, I prefer the French title and globally most French titles seem to be far better than English ones), well, I kept a kind of slightly boring memory, I only kept it because it's what made me discovering specialties of France as a child, educational virtue, which has often been present with Astérix when I read them as a child, and in several realms.

I keep some quite amused memories of Goths and Big Fight, and I liked the spontaneousness that draws have in them, while being more elaborate than in the 2 first.

I have read all of them during childhood and latter during adolescence, and indeed with different levels of reading, and indeed each time you find new things, I'd be curious to see what it would give if I read them again now...

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Eliminate:

2 Legionary
1 Little red kid

Keep:

Goths

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It's amazing, Benoît: we have almost exactly opposite tastes... !

I noticed that.

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3 French gastronomic specialties
2 Obélix in love
1 Where everybody speaks in a different color (dunno if it was the case in foreign editions, then I might specify that I refer to Obélix and Co., I guess you got what I meant by the others ones)

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elim Tour de Gaulle
keep the Goths

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Tough round.

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2 Légionaire
1 Corse (I would think it's mainly because they rendered well the annoying side of Corse )

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Oh no, the Goths...

Ocatarinellabellechichix (Corsica)

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Oh no, the Goths...

Ocatarinellabellechichix (Corsica)

The name was Ocaterinetabelatchitchix. In French. (In German, it was actually Osolemirnix... so instead of a song nobody here has ever heard of, they used another song that everybody knows... and that was written by the same Corsican.)

Yeah well, I googled what you wrote and it got no results. So then I just wikied the book.

when a German corrects a French on his 'Gaul culture'. No matter the way it took you to go there, thanks! But anyhow, the point is that nobody is able to pronounce it correctly.

Speaking about equivalences between original and foreign editions, there was so much references and wrapped up things tied to the French culture which made some of the salt of Astérix, that it would almost need the equivalent of a 'foreign Gosciny' for each foreign edition for people to really enjoy, foreign adaptations might have been a real work since apparently Astérix knew a big success in several other countries.

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Corsica

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The one in which you don't speak to his sister. Sure you can get it.

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Oh no no, she is pretty...

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I really enjoyed Le Domaine des Dieux, might have awoken me to some things.

I vote for the sexy Falbala (Legionary).

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Les choux pas les sous. Non, les sous pas les choux.

Le bouclier.