Woolfs & Doctors
Sep. 1st, 2010 19:38![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_moonScool has started! To our first lecture, we were to read Virginia Woolf's A room of one's own. Which I did, go me!
There's not much point talking about the text itself, since it's been discussed in detail by so many others before me. It was interesting to read and I smirked quite a bit when she discussed the learned men of her time and their criticism.
I do, however, have a complaint about the form of this particular edition I was reading. In an attempt to save money and shelf space, I have decided to read as many of the class books as I can, as e-books. There's an (legal, I assume) html edition here, but alas, it's quite badly formated.
Big, dense blocks of text, serifed font, hardly any white-space.... No. Even if the university doesn't have the time or money to format the text for the web, they ought to at least try and increase the leading (that is, the line space). And get rid of the bloody Times New Roman.
To our second lecture (tomorrow), we're to read Lysistrate which I have also done. I don't like reading plays, but at least this one has a very simple structure. And it's a lot dirtier than I expected :D
As a break from this intellectually stimulating fair, I finally finished my Doctor Who-book. The King's Dragon by Una McCormack. While better than Nuclear Time (which I diss here) this too was a highly forgettable, very simplistic book. Some fun scenes, Amy has a slightly sardonic and believable inner voice and the Doctor is described as looking confused when presented with the idea that it's not always all about him. Otherwise, bland and there's a bit too much running to and fro' and getting these people on our side, oh noes, now they think we're lying and now they believe us and now they don't @_@ Confusion can't hide blandness and wishy-washyness does not make an intrigue.
Ironically, this book does seem to have a leading of half a line's worth of empty space between each line....
There's not much point talking about the text itself, since it's been discussed in detail by so many others before me. It was interesting to read and I smirked quite a bit when she discussed the learned men of her time and their criticism.
I do, however, have a complaint about the form of this particular edition I was reading. In an attempt to save money and shelf space, I have decided to read as many of the class books as I can, as e-books. There's an (legal, I assume) html edition here, but alas, it's quite badly formated.
Big, dense blocks of text, serifed font, hardly any white-space.... No. Even if the university doesn't have the time or money to format the text for the web, they ought to at least try and increase the leading (that is, the line space). And get rid of the bloody Times New Roman.
To our second lecture (tomorrow), we're to read Lysistrate which I have also done. I don't like reading plays, but at least this one has a very simple structure. And it's a lot dirtier than I expected :D
As a break from this intellectually stimulating fair, I finally finished my Doctor Who-book. The King's Dragon by Una McCormack. While better than Nuclear Time (which I diss here) this too was a highly forgettable, very simplistic book. Some fun scenes, Amy has a slightly sardonic and believable inner voice and the Doctor is described as looking confused when presented with the idea that it's not always all about him. Otherwise, bland and there's a bit too much running to and fro' and getting these people on our side, oh noes, now they think we're lying and now they believe us and now they don't @_@ Confusion can't hide blandness and wishy-washyness does not make an intrigue.
Ironically, this book does seem to have a leading of half a line's worth of empty space between each line....
