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Anonymous Tue Jan 15 01:45:35 2019 No.12410930 [Reply] [Original]

What did McCarthy do to deserve these covers?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 01:48:21 2019 No.12410941 >>12410930 This is what happens when your work is co-opted by Reddit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 01:49:38 2019 No.12410944 File: 623 KB, 2430x2127, IMG_20181217_234212~2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Jesus they look like ads for Levi pants

Anonymous Tue Jan 15 10:55:37 2019 No.12412956
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>>12410930
>>12410941
Picador is one of the worst publishers for covers. It's unironcally put me off buying Blood Meridian, or any other of their books until they get reprinted with a different publisher.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 11:24:24 2019 No.12413094 >>12410930 he had a semi-popular movie based off one of his books

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 11:28:27 2019 No.12413116 >>12413094 >No Country for Old Men >literally Oscar-winning, good box office returns >considered one of the best films of this century >"semi-popular"

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 11:29:30 2019 No.12413126 >>12410930 Where the fuck do you live? The UK? Australia? I own the Vintage covers and I live in fucking Mexico.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 11:29:50 2019 No.12413127 Blood Meridian was pretty good though, I have that edition

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 11:37:18 2019 No.12413172 >>12413116 still less popular than generic marvel movie #27

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 11:41:03 2019 No.12413189 File: 1.29 MB, 750x1334, BB764070-095F-403A-9E68-0A81B4ECCA0C.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12412956 This one is pretty ok, it is the one i bought.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 11:42:24 2019 No.12413197 File: 36 KB, 261x400, 9780330510943.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] literally the best of those

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 11:43:57 2019 No.12413205 is No Country For Old Men book worth checking out? I have unfortunately didn't have the chance to read the book when I had it. Seen the film ages ago

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 11:46:57 2019 No.12413226 >>12413189 Those are the ones with the white spines right? They're not so bad but I think the design of the spines is weird.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 11:47:35 2019 No.12413232 File: 46 KB, 324x499, blood meridian.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12413189 this one is ok >>12413197 terrible the one in the pic is my favourite

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 11:51:22 2019 No.12413248 >>12413232 >terrible no

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 11:52:07 2019 No.12413254 >>12413232 I have this one, really nice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 11:55:06 2019 No.12413270 >>12413205 A little better than the movie

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 11:56:44 2019 No.12413283 >>12413205 The film is very close to the book. But I recommend all of McCarthy's work.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 11:57:35 2019 No.12413285 >>12410941 >Everything I don’t like is reddit or the jews

Anonymous Tue Jan 15 12:15:17 2019 No.12413373
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>>12413248
>>12413197
>huge quote
>huge, unreadable letters
>le quirky mismatched fonts
looks like one of those motivational quotes some middle-aged women like to put on their walls

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 12:29:50 2019 No.12413450 >>12413373 2deep4u

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 12:31:39 2019 No.12413469 >>12410930 >>12412956 >>12413197 >>12413232 the amount of plebs in this thread, if you can't find the nice editions of mccarthy, you don't deserve them

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 12:33:21 2019 No.12413480 >>12413469 >caring about the book cover and not the content i shiggy diggy

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 12:34:46 2019 No.12413489 >>12410930 Let's hope Library of America will publish his collected works at some point.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 12:51:29 2019 No.12413584 >>12410944 That's beautiful

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 12:57:51 2019 No.12413620 >>12413189 Ok >>12413197 Cringe >>12413232 The best

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 13:01:19 2019 No.12413639 >>12413620 fuck you

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 13:03:59 2019 No.12413652 >>12413373 >do what you love what you do stay humble Gonna have to take a while to unpack this, sweeties.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 13:05:02 2019 No.12413660 >>12413285 >reddit isn't the jews

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 13:15:15 2019 No.12413695 >>12410930 They look like those shitty hot sauce labels. BIG JIMMY'S BOMB or MCJOHNNY'S RED BURN.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 14:21:23 2019 No.12413973 >>12413695 >McCarthy's Bloody Marinade

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 15:26:33 2019 No.12414319 >>12413172 Your definition of popular is weird. No one remembers black panther or fucking ant man and the wasp. No country for old men will have fans forever

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 15:58:05 2019 No.12414479 File: 1.71 MB, 2015x3000, 1538231237389.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >not liking based picador covers plebs

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 16:09:14 2019 No.12414540 File: 15 KB, 342x342, 418dIL7Z86L._SX342_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12413232 >>12413189 >>12413197 cringe pic related is best

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 16:37:27 2019 No.12414710 >>12414540 that was the cover i had, no clue what the fuck ever happened to it all I see now is >>12413232 and >>12413189

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 16:40:35 2019 No.12414736 This thread is more proof that /lit/ is full of pseuds who care more about books looking cool for their shelf than for the actual work itself.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 16:40:47 2019 No.12414737 File: 47 KB, 329x500, bo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is the one that I have

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 16:44:47 2019 No.12414761 >>12414540 Where to get this?

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