discovered a complete works that uses one of the gun photos, although it’s the less aggressive of the two infamous pictures
thought about buying from this Buenos Aires bookseller (price = 167,000 pesos. Dont worry Milei has it all figured out. Part of the process, patriots are in control)
But then on further investigation the gun picture is just on the slipcase
still a good looking couple volumes might have to jump in for 167,000
To my surprise, someone in my small town has checked Les sept fous out from the library. Waiting till February to start that I guess
In the meantime I’ve never read Madame Bovary, but I don’t know if I can with this typeface.
NOT hot font
Also got a little tiny Balzac book. The library directory told me to look for it on the shelf under BALZ
I could survive the font, it’s the translucent page that’s killing me.
It seems to be a problem with PD works have had the experience myself of buying a copy on line that from the looks of the cover, the pricing, and the imprint looks legit but then the text is like unformatted word doc in arial
there’s a French translation Les Lance-Flammes so you can get the whole story unlike unfortunate english-only readers
yeah this store rules, SFO rules.
Why do you hate it? Looks like a pretty boring contemporary sans. The extremely circular glyphs actually kinda look like Tenorite which is my current favorite “Corporate” font.
I set my final paper(s) for grad school in Tenorite for the headings and Tenorite Display for body (which I can’t seem to easily find an example for, but it’s narrower and less-circular on the forms).
I’m with captain—at least in that the font is an odd choice for madame bovary in particular.
I’m not really a “font guy” but the only book I can recall being in a sans serif font is the outline trilogy by Rachel Cusk, which struck me as very fitting for that book(s). Elsewhere it’s too contemporary or digital or something.
The outline trilogy is very very good by the way. An easy recommendation for anyone looking for an alternative to the Knausgaard my struggle books.
I dont have a reason for it but I also wouldn’t enjoy reading more than a couple paragraphs of a sans typeface
on the other hand I wouldnt read any forum posts written in a serif that would be annoying
I don’t think I’ve ever noticed the font of anything in my entire life.
This Knausgard talk has reminded me that I sort of want to read that fella. When his books were first all the rage they sounded tremendously terrible to me but time has worn upon me and these many opinions are like a dribbling stream over stone, carving into me. So I may pick one of his books up soon. But maybe not.
I’m still kind of bouncing around with books, slightly dissatisfied with everything. I may read Portrait of the Artist again since I was gifted a fancy copy that, strangely, has an introduction by Knausgard. But I’m also thinking about picking up Lord of the Rings again because why not. I’ve also wanted to read poetry again since I haven’t really in many, many years, so I picked up a collected works of various 19th century poets who seem like a good use of my time.
My son is racing through these chapter books. We currently have 18 at our house, which is altogether too many, so I’m thinking of giving him a real book. Most of these chapter books are under 10k words, so they read quite quick, but there are these other kid books that are a few hundred pages. On the other hand, he’s only six and I’m not sure what books are best suited for a six year old.
Maybe Redwall. So maybe I’ll read Redwall.
Hey now!
I plum learn somethin new each dang day it seems
Question for ye (this is how I will be addressing the thread of the dark art henceforth).
Can anyone point me in the direction of some readings on taste? I’m sure what I need is maybe a dig back into philosophy, but more specifically I’m curious about taste as it relates to personal identity — I want to explore thoughts on media consumption and feelings of ownership.
Thank ye.
Umberto Eco’s “on the history of beauty”
If that’s not exactly what you’re looking for, it still might be a good jumping off point for googling and the like. Let us know what you find!
Yes and the library has it—one of two reasons why I’m going to read it now, the other being that the translation is good. I don’t know Spanish but I can recognize when the French is more faithful to the original than the most common English edition.
Surprised to discover this is some kind of school reader edition from 2004, though printed in 2010…
Hate is probably too strong a word, but I think it is because it makes me feel like I’m reading a corporate memo. Social realist drama from the 1850s feels particularly weird through that filter. On the other hand, I think Tenorite would be a marked improvement on this. I don’t know what this particular type is (the book doesn’t say), but I’m realizing I need a little foot (?) on my lower case d, p, and q
I wondered if they printed it this way in an attempt to improve readability, but the notes in the back are in several serif typefaces.
Damn, honestly the serif typefaces make that really hard to read, I mean it looks like they can’t even spell right, and there’s all these distracting little marks all over certain letters.
reading about Charles bovary’s dumb fucked up hat in comic sans
This might be a bit of a non-answer because it’s Japanese only, but I recently stumbled upon a Japanese YouTube video discussing センスの哲学. (sensu no tetsugaku) by 千葉雅也 (Chiba Masaya). The title translates roughly to “The philosophy of (good) taste”. And from what I gathered from that video it might be of interest to you. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be translated into English yet, as it’s relatively new I think.
I don’t have the link to the YouTube video anymore (which was also in Japanese) but the most practical hint here is that “sense” means “good taste” in Japanese and that maybe there are other works about that, that have already been translated into English.
Regardless of all the above: That sounds like an interesting topic for sure! Feel free to share if you find something interesting to read about it. I might join in and read along with you.
In praise of shadows is a classic on Japanese aesthetics and taste, now that you mention it
Also @safety_lite I did a little digging and Giorgio Agamben wrote a book called “taste” which is where I’d personally start if I had your inquiry.
I haven’t read this book myself but have encountered Agamben’s name a few times by way of other authors and he seems pretty cool.
