Format

[ulysses3_de]

I hate unformated texts.
You would think, that when reading a novel everything is nicely formated so that you can read the story easily.
Far from it.

I'm currently reading "The Casle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole for my Gothic and Neo-Gothic seminar and it's strenuous.

You have 10 to 15 pages with one pragraph and there's no difference between normal text and direct speech - not even in single quotation marks.

I think I'm going crazy. I've never had so much to read for University and I'm still looking for Mark Twain's "How to write a stroy short" and E.A. Poe's Short Story Theory - I can't find the review of Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales" by Poe. I should've just typed it into Google. *shakes head* I'm too tired for this.

Comments

[riverfox.livejournal.com]

10 to 15 *pages* without a paragraph break? Holy fucking shit. I get worried if I go over 6 sentences in a paragraph.

Time to send the publisher an "F". Idiots. *blinks in confusion* How the fuck that got by the editor/publisher is beyond me but they definitely can't be trusted. :)

[ulysses3-de.livejournal.com]

The problem is that it's a reproduction of the original publication from 1765.
The book itself was published in 1968 --> editor/publisher probably too old now. ;) It's not even available on Amazon anymore. I still wonder how our local bookstore got hold of the book.

[riverfox.livejournal.com]

*snort* It's unfair. Some old books we try to find and can't, then something like this keeps coming up like a bad penny. It's disgusting. *g*