Hard covers and lack thereof

[rich]

i'm still wondering about the red stamp on AtD--it's like it's being hidden
or something

i can only guess that Turnstone is our Slothrop-like character in AtD

p.s. i don't like hardbacks b/c most reading done commuting--M&D was pain
the ass to read on the subway. like the smell of paperbacks..hehe
rich


On 9/8/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> In case you haven't noticed, everything gets smaller
> as we get older ;)
>
> I'll send you a magnifying glass if it will help you
> with the Proust.  It's a beautiful set of books and
> represents some amazing scholarship. I hae the Proust
> biography, by Jean-Yves Tadie, editor of the Pleiade
> edition, in a nice big trade paperback with a font of
> generous proportions.
>
>
>
>
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Sep 7, 2006, at 6:46 PM, pynchonoid wrote:
> >
> > > The French can make nice books, but I wonder if
> > the
> > > market for hard-bound books is restricted to a
> > > smaller, book fancier/collector market segment. A
> > > Parisian friend's father had books bound in
> > leather
> > > for his  library.  I've got Proust, Rabelais, and
> > some
> > > other authors in the Bibliotechque de la Pleiade
> > > edition, expensive but well-made books always are,
> > in
> > > my experience.
> >
> >
> > Yes the French make nice books, nice looking anyway,
> > but why did they
> > have to squeeze the Pleiade Proust (including the
> > novel and all the
> > collateral materials) into four midget-sized volumes
> > in tiny print on
> > onion-skin-thin paper. Much too hard to read even if
> > your French is
> > good. Mine is  exceedingly minimal but I couldn't
> > resist owning the
> > definitive edition.
> > >
>
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