srijeda, 29. travnja 2015.

Atlas Shrugged / Pobunjeni Atlas, Ayn Rand

Pobunjeni Atlas, Ayn Rand

Publisher : Albion Books 
Number of pages: 953
Letter: Latin
Format: 25 cm
Year: 2013.
Language: Serbian


















Finally the translation for the nations who desperately need this book.
And even greater disappointment. This book is made so unprofessionally
that literally hurts while you read it.


















I is heavy and quite large block of paper that it is impossible to hold in your hands.


















Although it is still cheap implementation of "marginalized" literature it is still better made than publishers in English language.


















Although , typography is done by idiots, the book craftsmanship is satisfactory. 


















Dust jacket design is taken from Turtleback edition and that is the only thing in this book that does not suck.


















Although , binding of the book looks glued, it is not.


















Here is the proof of stitching.


















Even if the binding is sewn it does not mean that this book is durable.
I does not even compares to the durability of some glued editions.
But it is, certainly, repairable.

Now lets back to the inside of this abomination.

 You see the problem?



Who is John Galt?  Who cares who John Galt is. I want to know who is the idiot responsible for typography of this book. Who choose the font and the layout.


























This book is created by someone who does not know what is the book.
The person who have never read the book in his life.


















And how, in the world, it  is possible that paper this thick  could be so transparent?

 

Final thoughts


This abomination does not deserve to be called a book. It is just a extremely expensive huge block of incredibly thick, incredibly transparent paper ruined by letters in unreadable font, format and size.
This piece of crap is so bad that you can not even get to criticise bad translation, and wrong names pronunciation.

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četvrtak, 10. travnja 2014.

Franjevačka Biblija / Franciscan Bible

Franjevačka Biblija 

Publishers: Naša ognjišta, Hrvatski biblijsko društvo i Kršćanska sadašnjost

 

 

 Coming soon on   Bibleware.


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petak, 4. travnja 2014.

četvrtak, 3. travnja 2014.

Ψ [psi] Part 3

Ψ



Let us get inside of this extraordinary book.


Every now and then you can see silver Eros  Ψ-ing ... (holding hands in psi position)

 

large letters appearing ...


 on whole pages ...


 revealing secrets of human mind ...


mystic handwritings ....


 and censorship ...



 mysterious text disappearance ....


and periods of darkness.


All that in this sewn ....


quality bound ....


book that  is  unique ...


with serial number which unlocks the door of multimedial experience on official website. Book was originally written in Slovenian language and  translated in German , English and Croatian.


Only 7777 lucky people will have a chance to discover the secret of life.

Hurry and buy your copy.

As wise Gypsy said:  

Još malo pa nestalo !












subota, 15. ožujka 2014.

Ψ [psi] Part 2



Ψ


Out of the box ...


the book looks ...


 even more impressive.


Full frontal nudity of embossed naked Eros on white front cover


Backward nudity on black back cover.


Black and white spine with silver Eros in the middle  ....



who looks like divided between the light ....




and the darkness ...


that reflects our personality.

  
All that symbolics ....



and we have not even opened the book.

To be continued....




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Lost in the funhouse (Croatian Edition)

Lost in the funhouse: fiction for print, tape, live voice

by John Barth 



Translation : May Tančik , Nada Šoljan
 Published by: Informatorov biro sustav 6/2006.
236 pages, Paperback


 

This is the  first complete Croatian translation of John Barth's collection  " Lost in the Funhouse "


But this the the only translation of  John Barth's  works in Croatia.
So who is John Bart ? For Croatia it is unknown American author only , 
and maybe, students of American literature heard of him. 


"Izgubljen u Lunaparku"  written in 1968 is a short story collection that  are extremely self-conscious and self-reflexive and are considered to exemplify metafiction.


The book opens with "Frame-Tale"—a "story" ....


that requires preschool craftsmanship ....


to cut out the Möbius strip. A typical metafictional cry to escape .....


exhausted media of written literature ...


which Barth discusses in his essay ...


The Literature of Exhaustion .....


 that comes with the book as a booklet in which he describes the problems of literary postmodernism.





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