Translations and Thomas Mann

I was reading Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus as translated by John E. Woods and enjoying myself, so I decided to buy copies of The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice. Since I didn't pay attention to who translated it, I ended up getting the Lowe-Porter editions. Today I went on JSTOR and this site and heard about how butchered they are. :eek2: Is it worth purchasing a copy of the Woods edition of TMM just to remedy this? And does anybody have any suggestions for DinV (Woods hasn't translated it yet)?

whoops should have put this in "General Lit." My bad. XD I'm new here, by the way.