thread reminded me that French books (and as a result french bookshelves) are ugly as hell. there are like three publishers and they all publish white spines with same text. makes for the blandest libraries
― flopson, Monday, 1 August 2016 02:22 (seven years ago) link
And hardly ever any cover art
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Monday, 1 August 2016 03:55 (seven years ago) link
idk most book design (in the us at least) is ugly as hell, maybe it's better to just go the french route
― sacral intercourse conducive to vegetal luxuriance (askance johnson), Monday, 1 August 2016 13:22 (seven years ago) link
^
― The New Original Human Beatbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 August 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
no way
― flopson, Monday, 1 August 2016 16:03 (seven years ago) link
http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/3029684-in-a-room-lined-with-bookshelves-quintana-roo-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=OCUJ5gVf7YdJQI2Xhkc2QCAwsgIaw2ppHSUpExLXi2Msaz7S4x03Ipnq9LsB%2FU2ZBdi88Ll0p5FlH1GjT0fSr8rIShQEbvRqg97RusSOs9k%3D
― johnny crunch, Monday, 1 August 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
Calvino
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cache-ec0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2Fcf%2Fbb%2F15%2Fcfbb1559381959b020da4db66fb41104.jpg&f=1
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 August 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
Lessing may look sad but she's got Healthy Pleasures, by Ornstein and Sobel.
Brookner has Colette's... letters?
Percy has The Orchard Keeper by McCarthy.
Powell's got Bruccoli's bio of Fitzgerald (easy catch).
The Didion-Dunnes have The People's Almanac. Also, a very big dog.
― alimosina, Friday, 5 August 2016 00:49 (seven years ago) link