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'The Sound and the Fury' as William Faulkner imagined, in color (2012)
- JorgeGT 6y agoThe original 1979 edition of The Neverending Story was printed in two inks (red and green) depending if the action was set in the real word or in Fantastica. I wonder if more books use this technique?
- fluidcruft 6y agoThere's a black and red edition of The Princess Bride.
- colomon 6y agoYes, the first edition of The Princess Bride had red text for Goldman's "editorial" comments. I don't know if there have been editions since which maintained that convention?
- AndrewStephens 6y agoIt is a pity that later, cheaper editions of The Neverending Story were printed in black ink only. I read the original (well, original English translation) and it really added to the story. Incidentally, for anyone out there that hasn't read The Neverending Story, I recommend it. The book is very different to the film and starts messing with the reader about halfway in.
- JorgeGT 6y agoPlus it had those fantastic illustrations by Rowitha Quadflieg! (which is decidedly the most Harry Potter-esque name I've ever read in real life).
- _Microft 6y agoAre there any books that use different fonts or font sizes to convey for example feelings of a character? Large bold font when they feel strong; tiny, scribbled text when they feel frightened, and so on? There might be a few things that could be explored here, turning a book from a simple way to present text into an indispensable part of the piece it contains.
- JorgeGT 6y agoI'm thinking of Death in Terry Pratchett's Discworld, who speaks in sᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘs.
- bombcar 6y agoAnd that full page NO. Works best in the hardcover where the text doesn’t leak through the page.
- Dirlewanger 6y agoAnd if you want a perfectly cast voice in your head for him, play Discworld II for the PC.
- teddyh 6y agoAccording to IMDB¹, that was Rob Brydon. Although I thought that the voice of Death in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (2006) was good (by Ian Richardson). 1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199468/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199468/
- short_sells_poo 6y agoI found Sir Terry to be great with various mannerisms and speech patterns he devised for his characters. Just this small detail can add so much memorability to a character who may have been relatively minor otherwise. Like Inigo Skimmer's regular "mmh-mmph" in The Fifth Elephant which could be a sarcastic snigger or a nervous laugh and to some degree it is left up to the imagination of the reader to interpret it based. It somehow makes the character relatable and realistic.
- stuaxo 6y agoWell that seems to have sold out quickly.
- dwhitney 6y agoYeah hopefully they do a reprint
- ubermonkey 6y agoWell, not necessarily; the linked story is from 2012.
- stuaxo 6y agoSince these sold out really quickly maybe they could print some affordable versions in colour in the future (sans leather covers etc).
- telesilla 6y agoMy sudden hopes to start a book collection, dashed
- zaven 6y agoI’ve attempted to read The Sound and the Fury twice over the years: once giving up part way through Benjy's section, and the second time tapping out shortly after finishing it. Very validating to read that even the editor mentioned here found it tremendously confusing!
- dwhitney 6y agoI loved this book when I read it in college. Things people should know: * It's funny. * Benjy is just one of the characters. He has mental issues, which make his chapters more difficult, but the other characters' chapters are straight forward, give you context, and push the story forward. * Benjy's chapters aren't really that difficult. * It's been 20 years since I read this so everything I've written here may be wrong :)
- InitialLastName 6y agoI'm about 3/4 of the way through, and feel like I need to re-read it just so I know what's going on in context for the Benjy section.
- Bodell 6y agoThere are many people these days that use formatting to further their writing, but a particular example that I enjoyed immensely was Danielewski's House of Leaves.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves
- harperlee 6y agoI remember fondly the experience of reading a passage with either a chase or a fall, and each page having less words (down to 1 word per page, several times), the effect of which was that you started to page the book faster and faster, giving your reading a wonderful sense of acceleration.
- ubermonkey 6y agoFolio Society editions are amazingly gorgeous. I have a few, but none that cost $345. Two things about the linked article: 1. The lede is just bad. Why would dense writing be in tension with winning a Nobel? 2. That the Folio Society consulted Noel Polk on this is an excellent sign. Polk, who sadly passed away in 2012, was one of the foremost Faulkner scholars. I had the pleasure of knowing him as I was growing up; his kids were a couple years behind me in school, and we attended the same church. I knew he was an English professor, but I had no idea of his stature until I picked up a copy of _As I Lay Dying_ for class, and saw it had a forward by Dr Polk. Sadly, this edition of TSATF is long since sold out.
- paulie_a 6y agoOh God that is an awful awful book I can't believe it is taught for anything other than "how to not write"