/lit/ - Literature

>>23200853
Edgy.
>>23200850
Gaudy.
>>23200996
Normal.

>>23201001
SOVL

>>23200850
The Case of the Caretaker's Cat

>>23201004
Stormfire is a bit if a grail book for paperback bodice ripper fans. It's pretty wild. Like, the hero initially captures the heroine to get revenge on her father. He rapes her and then sends her blood and semen encrusted underwear to her father to taunt him. Good stuff.

>>23201019
I will now read your book

>>23201004
>A scot named Scottie McMullet who also has a mullet

That is kind of hilarious not gonna lie

Mr Car and the Knights Templar
(this translation could also be understood as "Mr Autistic" in the current slang)

>>23201001
is it from the point of view of the crabs?

>>23201030
>Zbygniew
funny name

>>23201030
I never know what to expect when people write about the Knights Templar

>>23201004

Japanese editions are on a league of their own. This is A Thousand Plateaus.

>>23200850
S 0 V L

am i the only one on /lit/ who has read this book?

>>23201294
cute doggy

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>>23201001
I wish they weren't so expensive!

>>23202053
that's the gayest cover i've ever seen, including full blown gay sex covers

>>23202062
makes you feel crabby

>>23202072

>>23202067
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_biology_of_the_brown_bear

>>23201022
Some of those old romance paperbacks are pretty crazy. I like to toss one in every now and then when I want something light and I don't feel like reading scifi, fantasy, or horror. Johanna Lindsey's books are always entertaining. There's one of hers, I can't remember the title now, where the heroine kidnaps the hero and chains him to her bed and rapes him. Later he escapes and returns the favor. Catherine Coulter's books are also really rapey. Good times.

>>23201001

I tried to find a paperback of these and was surprised at how difficult it seems

I find the Penguin clothbound classics very aesthetically pleasing, but I wish they came with a dust cover for protection.

>>23200850
Aesthetic Blood Meridian Editions 1/3

>>23204627
2/3

>>23204629
3/3

>>23204629
$975.00 USD

>>23200850
My country is shit in many regards but we are absolutely the best at book covers

Finally got this one because of the amazon sale, beautiful

>>23205217
btw, It'll never happen but I wish they would reprint the original trilogy here, the current covers are slop tier

>>23201294
Would you recommend it

>>23205230
Of course.
>Each successive tale tells of further breakdown of urban society. As mankind abandons the cities, each family becomes increasingly isolated. Bruce Webster surgically provides dogs with a means of speech and he gives them contact lenses for better vision.

A later tale tells of a research station on the surface of Jupiter. Simak's version of Jupiter is a cold, windswept, and corrosive hell where only advanced technology allows the station to exist at all. A scientist is accompanied by Towser, his tired and flea-bitten old dog. But there is a problem: Men permanently transformed to survive unaided on Jupiter's surface leave the station to gather data and inexplicably fail to return. Finally, the scientist transforms himself and his canine companion into the seal-like beings that can survive the surface. They leave the station in their new form and experience Jupiter as a paradise. Towser's fleas and irritations are gone and he is able to talk telepathically to his former master. Like the previously transformed station personnel, the scientist decides never to return.

Ten thousand years in the future, Jenkins is provided with a new body so he can better serve the few remaining "websters". By then, the dog civilization has spread all around the Earth, including the rest of the animals whom, little by little, the dogs introduce to their civilization. All of them are significantly intelligent, and Simak appears to mean that they were so all the while even though humans were not able to notice it. This civilization is a pacifist and vegetarian one. The dogs intervene in nature and distribute food to wild animals, managing to end virtually all predation. Besides, they also look for doors between dimensions through which some beings from different worlds are able to pass. At this point, a wraithlike creature called a "cobbly" appears, having traveled from another world on the time thread. Before it is driven away, Jenkins's new telepathic sense enables him to read the creature's mind to discover how it moves from world to world. Realizing that humanity cannot peacefully coexist with the Dogs and the other animals, Jenkins uses the knowledge to take his human charges to one of the other worlds. Eventually, the human race dies out on the new world.

However, returning to the initial Earth in the final tale of the book, Jenkins finds the dogs dealing with the ever-growing Ant City, which is taking over the Earth. Jenkins travels to Geneva, where a last small group of humans sleep in suspended animation. He asks his former master, a Webster, how to deal with the ants. The answer is typically human – poisoned bait, enough to kill but not before the bait is taken back to the ant colony to kill widely there. Jenkins is saddened because he realizes the Dogs will never accept this solution. He tells the dogs that the "websters" had no answer. The Dogs leave Earth for one of the other worlds.

>>23205375
>dogs are set on killing all animals whose digestive system needs animal protein
>after the dogs destroy the ecosystem / planet, they fuck off to another planet
Mr Simak is based, thank you for taking the time

>>23201169
I've read it. It's actually really good.

>>23206521
What would you say is the proportion of smut to plot? I might give it a chance.

>>23205359
The Finnish translation cover is cool too.

>>23204629
whats the significance with binding it this way?

>>23205645
>not the best cover

>>23204629
>>23207770
>whats the significance with binding it this way?
no idea, seems to be called "butterfly stitch"

>https://suntup.press/blood-meridian/
>The Numbered edition of 350 copies is a unique handmade binding with butterfly sewing laced into leather covered boards. Endsheets are Hahnemühle Bugra with a Tyvek hinge for reinforcement. The edition is printed letterpress on Mohawk Superfine, and is housed in a cigar-style box covered in Italian cloth. Each copy is made entirely by hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmyIvwQGmAA
https://www.westdean.ac.uk/blog/an-illustrated-guide-to-butterfly-stitch

>>23207775
it looks kind of cool but utterly pointless

>>23207770
it's bound that way so you can see the stitching, and so you can tell it was bound by hand. The spine of a book can cover up a lot of sloppy stitching jobs. While it looks unfinished, it's actually a lot more difficult to bind a book this way. Kind of like a car with a stainless steel body. There's no paint job, but the body work has to be immaculate because there's nothing to cover up mistakes.

>>23207800
i think part of it is because ive come to loathe books as anything but a commodity. i know it sounds retarded, but i find rare editions, collectors runs, etc to be so awful.

>>23200850
0/10
>>23200853
10/10
>>23200996
8/10, a little too much like Barns and Noble's shitty cloth bound books
>>23201000
8/10, good minimalist design, but this is more like a foreigner's interpretation of a Japanese aesthetic
>>23201001
8/10, smaller title, bigger crabs
>>23201004
>>23201169
>>23205650
gay/10
>>23201252
what am I even looking at here?
>>23201294
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>>23205224
junk/10
>>23202053
cute/10
>>23204627
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>>23204637
10/10
>>23205343
8/10
>>23205359
airport novel aesthetic/10
>>23205645
6/10
>>23206500
3/10
>>23206620
7/10
>>23206820
6/10
>>23207746
4/10
>>23207757
9/10 what is this?
>>23207772
5/10

>>23207874
>Barnes and Noble.jpg
Is the book actually any good? I got a huge rush of nostalgia seeing the cover again.

>>23201001
the font used starting with CRABS: THE HUMAN SACRIFICE is pure kino.

>>23201001
Fuck off Carpathia

>>23207829
*hides post*

>>23208368
based

>>23208225
SOUL

>>23208727

>>23201000
the vintage editions of mishima's works are stunning, i have like 6 of them

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>>23209073
what's Prithioa Sage?

>>23209086
Frithiof's Saga

>>23209086
Icelandic saga written in German. That's an F btw. Frithiof's Sage

>>23209110
>>23209112
i buy the first one, but how is the second one an F? cool cover either way

>>23209123
1st F also has that autistic cosmetic curl. I get what you're saying though. Old book fonts can be weird af

I'm more likely to buy a book if there's a nude woman on the cover.
Especially if she's a redhead.

>>23205375
Based Simak reader.
Also highly recommended: Way Station.