/lit/ - Literature

Lolllllllll

>>11520560

No way that's real. Bah Gawd!

>>11520688
https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Karamazov-Illustrated-Platinum-ebook/dp/B017YB4AJ4

К coжaлeнию, этo peaльнo. Bcя Poccия oплaкивaeт этoгo paпc нaшeй кyльтypы.

>>11520560

>>11520705
Sadly, it's real. All of Russia is crying over this breakage of our culture.

>>11520709
>worst

>>11520705
holy shit what in the goddamn fuck were they thinking?

>>11520777
They weren't.

>>11520709
based and redpilled

I got one for the great Buddhist thinker Marcus Aurelius

>>11520709
And people say video games can't be art.

>>11520560
Holy shit where do I get this? The Amazon link is just for Kindle, and switching to paperback changes to a different edition

>>11520705
>К coжaлeнию, этo peaльнo. Bcя Poccия oплaкивaeт этoгo paпc нaшeй кyльтypы.
>Bye, it's pealno. In spite of this, we are tempted by this pencil of our culprits.

You're welcome, my fellow Americans.

>>11520705
>нaшeй
don't pretend to be russian if you aren't, it's pretty fucking obvious

Not the worst but it is really fucking ugly

>>11520864
Forgot pic

>>11520840
isnt the feminine genitive нaшeй?

>>11520891
yes, I was just calling you out on using the word "ours" to describe Russian culture, given the rest of your sentence.

>>11520898
I'm sincerely sorry, my point stands though, that cover is an affront to Dosto and Russia.

>>11521165
That's true. anyway I think you google searched rape to get raps, but it's a type of plant

>>11520868
this has got to be a joke

>>11520705
>wish this book was smaller dimensions - it's too hard to hold in my hands and read
>three stars
some people

>>11520705
Fucking lol. What were they thinking?

This would be like making 1984 about a jolly old British man who likes drinking.

This and the cover of Forever War that is an obviously traced US soldier with a bubble added over his head.

>>11520705
Ahahahaahahahah my sides

>>11521178
this cover is a solid 9 what the fuck is wrong with you

>>11521198
This thread is now about making up the worst covers possible

>>11521286
It conveys the shape of Texas more than a feeling of angst.

>>11520705
Чтo тaкoe «paпc»?

>>11521550
видимo мaня хoтeл пepeвecти дocлoвнo aнглийcкoe выpaжeниe "the rape of our culture" нo вмecтo cлoвa "изнacилoвaниe" пoдoбpaл pacтeниe из кoтopoгo дeлaют мacлo. Rapeseed, oдним cлoвoм.
google translate is not always your friend

>>11520705
>you are now aware that this is the level of Russian of the faggots on this board who will say that you can only appreciate Russian literature in the original language instead of a translation
Figures

>>11520560
What
WHAT
is it a meme

I bought this a year ago and it hurts every time I look at it

>>11521587
>suns out

Bump

>>11520868
please tell me this is not real

>>11521594
hehehehe

>>11521201
The original cover looked some heavy metal album cover

>>11520560
Anyone else find it weird that the Penguin editions of Aristotle have these medieval Christian paintings which are nothing to do with Greece at all?

>>11521633

>>11521633
Very Greek

/g/reetings.

>>11521201
> a tour de force
Every time

>>11521633
To be fair that's who was reading and interpreting Aristotle throughout history (and some Muslims, too, of course). It's an easy association to make.

>>11520560
There is this publisher/bookstore in my country with choose to make pocket editions of some classical books. This is one of the original series, in with they put this god awfull drawings of each author in the book cover. I hate the Nietzsche one in particular because not only Nietzche is one of my fav authors, but ffs, tell he dosen't look like a dick in this one?
Fortunately, the new editions changed this, they didn't keept these god awfull drawings, but I am already scared for life

>>11520709
Cut to the chase:
Did they get a good translation for it, or just something that's public domain and free to use?

>>11520560

>>11521178
this is hilarious and very good

>>11522474

Kek

Alberto Jamus

>>11522442
I find these caricatures to be fairly accurate, actually. If you should put them on a book cover is another question, of course.

>>11521178
this is actually a really nice cover

>>11521633
>>11521635
>>11521639
You are like a little baby. Watch this.

Pretty much all 'Wordsworth classics' covers are terrible. I couldn't find a large enough image of it online so I took a picture of mine. It's not a great translation either. I should probably just burn it.

>>11520705
It's only for Kindle. I want that on my bookshelf

>>11522544
this looks like a fucking meme

>>11521594
I get it

>>11522544
>metaphysics intensifies

>>11522571

>>11522571
They used to be fine, you can find the older covers in second hand book stores. I have no idea why they're shitty photoshoots now, surely it's cheaper and easier to use a piece of public domain art?

>>11522453
It says right on the cover that they used the Longfellow translation, which is actually kind of cool. They probably only used it because it's public domain and he's a recognizable name, though. Gotta make bank somehow.

>>11522608
I saw that but I didn't know anything about it.

>>11522593
The idea that they paid whoever made these covers boggles the mind.

>>11521198
1984 is a shitty book

>>11522571
Wordsworth covers are crimes against humanity

>>11522787
that is a shitty post

>>11522544

Okay this is epic

>>11521595
for fucks sake

>>11523015

>>11523026

>>11523031

>>11522442
That's actually kino, you pleb.

>>11522474
lmfao, fantástico

>>11522544
At least they got the right guy

>>11521633
These could actually be medieval paintings of Aristotle. Medieval paintings of other cultures were known to project HARD. I remember seeing an medieval european image of Ong Khan (one of Genghis Khan's patron and mentors, and blood brother to his father) and it just straight up looked like a pope receiving letters.

>>11522442
Saraiva de Bolso is fine. Also, learn how to write in English before posting.

Horrible cover + stolen translation combo wombo.

>>11522571
HAHAHAHA you actually bought it, you absolute and utter fucking retard

>>11522544

incregdibly fast homosexual philosophizing at high speeds

>>11523015
What's that shit on his head? Is he supposed to be a perfume bottle?

>>11522436
Yeah, I agree, it doesn't seem that bad to me. Sure there are probably better choices out there but medieval Catholic ideology saw Aristotle's word as the law when it came to philosophy (sometimes in a very literal sense)

I live in hope that someone will tell me this is fake

>>11522588
underrated post

>>11523418
Are they targeting millennials with that cover?

>>11523418
There's a head on top of a head. Jesus, this is bad haha

>>11523418
I like it

>>11520560
>6€

>>11523568
>16€

When the cover is so bad it literally destroys 10 bucks of value.

I shit you not this is real, I’ve held a copy in my own hands.

>>11523603
The translation is even simplified to an early high school reading level.

>>11523603
>Let's make this depressing Russian lit look like a hip edgy novel
Marketing guys knew what they were doing and didn't give a fuck.

>>11523603
I own this copy but it's blue.

>>11522515
I can't actualy believe someone in the PR department taught this was a good idea. I myself was struck on how awfull the cover was, I baught because they were cheap, but people like myself, would avoid such a eldritch book cover if we had the means too.
>>11523038
Idk what you talking. Are you talking about the artists name? If so, I don't realy care, they are just awfull book desing.
>>11523066
You made two huge mistakes: saying that Saraiva de Bolso is fine, and saying I need to learn how to write english.
Both with are, just wrong. Deep shit.

my name is ian an my fav book is steve irwin biografy but cover irs bad

>>11523658

Now this is some next level shit

>>11523681
"Kino" is just another meme word; something like "patrician", originally used only for films ("Kino" being the German word for "cinema") but eventually extending beyond films to qualify anything that the poster considers of great taste. In short: the original poster stated you had shitty taste because he considers that Nietzsche drawing to be great.

>>11523688
That is a series of biographies of famous people written for kids. They all look like that, caricatures of the biography subject.

>>11523638

I am a sick man... I am a def not chill man. I am a total bitch ass nerd man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFRnKg6cecc

>>11523808
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY. Is not even The Wire sacred?

>>11523815
You know that Tom Waits... ah, never mind

>>11523737
Are they better or worse than Horrible Histories?

>>11520797
>>11520560
These are hilarious as fuck

>>11523167
jesus christ, what the fuck, i thought it can't get worse than cap

>>11520705
IT CAN'T BE REAL, MY EYES ARE FOOLING ME

>>11521533
I laughed at this, thanks anon

Why do I feel such a strong need to purchase these editions?
It's as if I can't truly appreciate their absurdity without physical proof of their legitimacy

>>11521594
guns out

>>11523872

>>11520560
I thought it was Malcom in the middle

>>11523967

>>11524092

>>11524098

>>11523737
>kang tut

>>11521429
https://nullk.github.io/penguin.html

Post em

>>11520560

>>11520560
>>11520797
>>11523872
>>11523967
>>11524092
>>11524098
Most I've laughed on /lit/ in a while.
There's no way the marketing guys aren't deliberately making the covers retarded for brand recognition or something.

>>11524196
I still don't believe these are real editions.

Pun intended. Dogshit

>>11521595
>Yes, lets not read the book and just design the cover

>>11524476
At least that's actually granular to the plot.

>>11523603
>hilarious yet disturbing
xDDD lol repost for likes

>>11524476
>his out of date tophat has a brim
The greatest crime.

>>11524484
Fuck off, that cover is litkino.

Translation of the trial transcripts, followed by epilogue musings such as:
>Joan of Arc: Transgender?
>Generalizations about Homosexuality in Key Biblical Texts
>Was Joan of Arc a Lesbian?

>>11522544
not to mention this version is FUCKING HUGE

>>11524729
Wait, what is it supposed to look like?

>>11523967
THERE ARENT ANY GUNS IN THAT BOOK SONECHKA DID NOTHING WRONG

>>11524847
A gun plays a key role in the climactic scene between Dunya and Svidrigaïlov

>>11524858
oh yeah

>>11524232
This cover reminds me so much of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. A shame that it isn't related to the plot at all...

>>11520705

>>11524921
it fits but looks so fucking ugly

>>11523031
That's raw

>>11524210
Same. I mean, OP's edition indeed got posted, but I can't believe all of the ones that were posted are real.

>>11521595
He looks like plotting some weird shit

>>11522474
>Tricahue
>Trick a hue

>>11522474
I would buy this

>>11520705
>paпc
lmao

all of these

>>11522588
Does that mean this one is also real?

>>11521533
Superb

>>11525344
That ones fuckin cool if you’re a kid though.

>>11521533

literally just saw this earlier today

>>11525401
>plato wearing a badge/whatever with his own face
not surprising

>>11520709
Needs the sticker.
STARRING DANTE FROM THE DEVIL MAY CRY SERIES

>>11525679
the cover should be plato talking with sock puppets labelled "socrates" and "aristophanes" that he is operating himself

>>11520560
Recently bought this one. It's published by the Barfield Press/his literary estate, I imagine it's a bunch of old Christian dudes working there, they probably thought it was beautiful and deep. To be fair, the general idea of the girl looking into the mirror and the girl in the mirror look out towards you isn't bad, but there's just something very stock photo-y about it, and then something about the golden ratio or whatever out of nowhere.
I commend them for making the book available again but christ it's in poor taste.

>>11520583
mama me?

>>11524484
hey fuck you, that's a good cover and modern classics are pretty in general

>>11525770
>>11521587

>>11525401

Fucking perfect

>>11522583
Κέk!

>>11521587
this is the copy I have too, the cover looks like generic tumblr photography blog tier

>>11521594
lmao my dude

>>11522544
slow DOWN

>>11523418
> somebody that I used to knoooowww

>>11523603
Lmao imagine being the edgy fedora lord in school who picks this up and fucking puts it down after ten pages because of that first half but then tries to convince his yugioh playing buddies it's the greatest book it's so hilarious yet disturbing

see also: chuck Palahniuk's fight club, bret Easton ellis' American psycho, William burroughs' naked lunch, etc

>>11523688
I still miss Steve ;_;

>>11524092
what the fuck

>>11524232
SF Masterworks can have the absolute worst book covers sometimes.

>>11525350
nah that's nice actually

>>11522571

Not to mention that they tend to go for the cheaper translations of some classics. They're okay in the sense of picking up a good book for a cheap price, but they never look good on a bookshelf.

>>11525401
Wordsworth again

Fucking hate these Bloomsbury editions that are everywhere now, couldn't find the original printing of Being and Event with the better cover.

>>11521550
i wanted to ask the same thing, underage anglophones trying to act cool by google transalting is the saddest thing

>>11520705
>>paпc (lol) нaшeй кyльтypы
>>"нaшeй"

>>11524092
kino
brainlets will say its garbage

>>11522544
>>11522581
>>11522583
>>11523002
>>11523050
>>11523090
>>11524824
>>11526061

>>11522544
>>11526387
>super eurobeat starts playing in the background

>>11525401
Why is he wearing a sticker of john belushi in Animal House?

>>11521587
>the book is about the sun lol

>>11522515
Orwell?

>>11525350
>pink rays

Wrong. It's good.

>>11526731
Belushi was a lover.

>>11525401
>"Ay Mari! Where's da Gabagool!" - Plato

I bought the Kafka one.

>>11526840
This is good!

>>11523057
If you watched Marco Polo on Netflix you'd know that Genghis's uncle was Catholic and a holy man of their people and thus he did look like the pope cause he was a sorta bishop to the Mongols.

>>11522420
>that dick outline.

gracious!

>>11520705
> paпc
Rapeseed has never been an important culture in Russia, you have been misinformed.

I am sure it's one of the many legends circulating in Slavic studies faculties.

>>11527201
I just learnt a word in english, thank you. had to google rapeseed
Impregnating strangers without their consent seemed a legit Russian prank

>>11523603
First rule about the underground is no one talks about the underground.

>>11527244
I am a sick man, you got any smokes, bro?

>>11527232
With that we derail to the classic.

>>11527263
>new hero
>our man in the world of anime
>sergey kim
>a foreign life
what even

>>11527263
There was a thread about those some time ago.

>>11526074
That stingray was literally worse than Osama bin Laden.

>>11524092
This is good, though.

>>11524134
Is he drinking onions?

>>11527271
>Stalin
>Fire breathing dragons
>Castle
>Big communism sword
>Comfy golden satan chair with golden demon heads

This is perfect.

>>11524232
This is actually great

>>11527287
this is good

>>11521633
The most cringe is this one

The book features Zeno of Elea, the Pre-socratic philosopher, but the picture on the Penguin cover is of Zeno of Citium, the Hellenistic philosopher, the wrong Zeno.

So basically someone at penguin books just Googled "Zeno" and picked the first one that came up and went with it.

>>11524108
Twelve Years A Thug?

>>11523167
ebin

this is a VERY good thread

>>11527263
Wasn't that about some old guy that has sex with a girl, but one of them is dressed as Pikachu and shocking the other with a car battery?

>>11523688
was steve irwin’s head really that big?

>>11528018
yes, it's what provoked the stingray to attack

>>11526055
Gtfo plebbit

>>11525785
My point still stands in general and >>11521587 isn't even that horrible, the cover itself isn't what's bad, it's the resolution and admittedly the lack of something to frame the picture. There's probably any number of ways to make it fit with the story but I dropped Camus after high school and the only thing I remember from The Outsider is the guy eating sausage, drinking wine and smashing puss. And some strolling on the beach and some Arabs.

>>11520777
I feel like they just googled "brothers" and took the first pic they found

>>11522544
I'm getting a headache just looking at this

>>11526387
this is somehow less jarring and at the same time even faster
neat

>>11523688
>100th tit lel

>>11525401
Is this from a porn or something

>>11528493
holy fuck, lmao

>>11524092
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT

>>11521201
Thats super shit man. Haha. Jesus.

>>11525401
>Where are my eagles!

>>11523075
More Golden books.
My gf owns this fucking edition of Faust.

>>11524476

You stole fizzy lifting drinks!

I've been laughing for 10 minutes straight now

>>11525401
TOGA TOGA TOGA

>>11525782
>Squidward....Stoneri?!

>>11528524
an idiot

>>11525344
Pretty comfy desu

>>11520797
>>11523967
>>11523872
You can't make shit like this up

>>11528575

lol, I have this one too

>>11527008
I hope you're joking.

Ong Khan had some missionaries visit him but was not known to be Christian and he was long-dead by the time Marco Polo came over.

Is this just a joke about the show that I've never seen?

>>11524092
I'm laughing way too hard at this.

>>11524134

>>11522474

>>11521587
WTF
I JUST SHOT AN ARAB

>>11520560
jesus, if they don't even bother looking up anything about the book, why don't they just use some abstract shit or just text for the cover? this shit posted in this thread is beyond embarrasing.

>>11524092

OH MY GOD HOLY KEK

>>11529801
They should seriously consider selling touhou and anime waifus on covers of classics, I and many other autists would buy it without hesitation.

>>11522442
I like this one

>>11522544
i laughed so hard jfc

>>11523015
>>11523026
>>11523031
>>11523036
is it bad that i kind of love these?

>>11524092
i just had a stroke jfc

>>11531702
i like these too
>>11524232
>>11524470
>>11524473

>>11520560
>"Hey John we're ready to publish the new illustrated platinum edition of The Brothers Karamazov. Can you forward me the picture you want to use for the cover?"
>Fuck, I didn't read the book yet.
>It's obviously about brotherhood so I'll just google something
>This one seems to capture essence of the bond between brothers
>"Please use the picture attached in this email"
>".....Bill look what John sent"
>"What the fuck is this lol. Should we say something?"
>"Fuck it. He already paid us. Let's how many of these turds will actually sell lol"

>>11522474
I actually want this now.

>>11525176
He's fucking twisted

>>11523015
>>11523026
>>11523031
>>11523036
post more

>>11523015
pretty based

>>11526302
One of the best videos

>>11522474
top fucking kek where do i get this??

>>11531869
source?

>>11524232
This is good fuck you

>>11525752
it's an ammonite fossil I think

>>11527287
I love this aesthetic, I hope we'll see a revival of it in a few years when vaporwave has blown over.

>>11525350
i have three of these mariner pkd books. the worst part of them is the "texture" of the cover. it's not glossy, it's not paper, it's some sort of ribbed plastic covering, incredibly annoying. the art isn't so bad imo.

>>11524843

he is berated in the street for being a "german hatter" and raskolnikov is annoyed at himself for letting a detail like a worn out brimless hat make him stand out

>>11524858

and him and the jewish achiles

>>11524487
It could be a lot lot worse

>>11531872
Girlsdoporn e409 or 10, she has two

>>11526289
I don’t hate that cover (the font for the name is unpleasant but not repulsive to me) but when you compare it to what it was originally published with it’s no contest.

>>11526289
Also look at this fuckin thing

>>11525426
Who the fuck thought that was okay

>>11525401
This actually owns f

>>11526770
>Orwell?
It literally says so in the filename anon

>>11531989
The only bad thing about this is that they apparently expect you to read the ant type on the bookshelf

>>11520709
This is literary kino

>>11522544
This is the best cover I've ever seen for a philosophy book.

>>11522474
>hispanic guy with an arabic had on

fantastic

>>11531965
it could just be a picture of a limp dick

>>11523603
>"hilarious yet disturbing"

>>11524484
>that's actually great

>>11527271
not going to lie, russia has amazingly bad covers. I always have a hard time figuring out if the books I am buying in the history section are fanfiction or real history because the covers for both are so gay looking. That said, anyone know similar stories about пoпaдaнцы because this looks amazing