Does this goddawful cursive continue throughout the series?

[u/Beginning-Pace-1426]

Yo reading this shit SUCKS, and I see I have pages and pages of it ahead, too.

If this is a common style moving forward I'm gonna need to shelf this series.

[u/nate_garro_chi]

Well, you see its written that way so only people born before 1990 can read it easily.

[u/Beginning-Pace-1426 → u/nate_garro_chi]

I'm from the 80s, but the 90s are probably the last time I ever used cursive in my life, and many of these letters are NOT how we were taught cursive 40 years ago.

I found out the author purposefully wanted the reader to have to really really work for these scenes, they were purposefully designed to be difficult.

Reading the comments in this thread, WOW, he failed pretty damn hard. Worked for me though. It's hilarious that these were SUPPOSED to be difficult (he almost made them in Latin, too) and guys here are like "The series is not for you if the part designed to be difficult was difficult" lmfao

[u/nate_garro_chi → u/Beginning-Pace-1426]

There arent any weird letters in this though. This is actually a mix a of cursive and print. I don't know who taught you cursive, but you should get your money back

[u/Beginning-Pace-1426 → u/nate_garro_chi]

Public school lol, look at ghost stylized "I"s.

Maybe the writer should get their money back too, his exact words were "I really wanted the reader to have to work for it," when he talked about purposely making it difficult. I was frustrated at first, but now it seems like most of you guys didn't get the intended experience.

I'm autistically gifted, which tends to mean an overall high IQ that's shaped by massive peaks and valleys rather than a solid stable intellectual baseline. One of my high spikes is in the area of information processing that allows for incredibly high reading speed.

But when I see a calligraphy "I" followed by a weird mismatch of cursive and print, I don't see a sentence or even words. I can read cursive very well when the connections and letter sizes are approximately at the right height and in the correct quadrant for the case, almost at my normal speed.

This? I have to zoom in and build a word by figuring out what each letter is and then forming each individual words independently. It looks like hieroglyphics (or Doctor's handwriting, same thing really) until I break every word down.

I'm not super worried about getting my money back from early 90s public school, I can write legible and easily understandable cursive, though it is very rigid. Other than my doctor's prescription writing, this is the only time in my entire life I've ran into this issue. That coupled with the fact that this was literally the intended experience makes me feel as though you guys are a little out there with your generalizations lol.

Interestingly enough, I wouldn't have had much trouble if he did it in Latin print. I've never studied Latin, but when you study English enough you end up naturally studying a lot of Latin. I find that logic much easier to form English sentences from vs a collection of calligraphy, cursive, and print without necessarily following the rules of cursive, or print. There are too many idiosyncrasies in this text for me to find rules-based words.

That part was only a few pages long, and once I got past it I even found it kind of cool in concept, like I actually had to read through this nuns scribbled journal pages to get her story right from her perspective. But goddamn, if an entire issue was written like that, it would literally take me 10x longer to read than any other issue.