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2464351 No.2464351 [Reply] [Original]

>my friend buys this book after hearing me rave about it
>THIS COVER
>STAR WARS THE CLONE WARS DEATH VEHICLE HURRR
>SOLDIERS FROM THE MOVIE

he was quite annoyed when neither of those things happened in the book

>> No.2464353
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2464353

...terrible book covers thread?

>> No.2464356
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2464356

Retarded covers general? Retarded covers general.

>> No.2464360

>>2464353
Dear god.

that's actually been printed?

>> No.2464362
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2464362

I actually quite like this cover.

>>2464353
Oh good God where's the flamethrower.

>> No.2464365
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2464365

These are the worst covers.

>shot from the movie
>that retarded iron throne
>hurp hurp hurp you can watch it on the teevee
>but buy it anyway, because many people have bought it and you don't want to be UNCOOL, do you?

sigh

>> No.2464371
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2464371

>horrible quality
>bad paper
>shit binding

yay

>> No.2464378

>>2464371
Aww man that actually looks good for one of those B&N Collecters editions or whatever they're called.

>> No.2464379

>>2464371
Oh god, much worse then bad covers is shitty paper.

or hardbacks with a shitty binding that comes unglued after 1 reading

>> No.2464389

>>2464362

Is that really an IJ cover? I thought the only covers were the clouds and barcode. I like it. There's different little pictures, which is good because the novel is about so many different things.

>> No.2464392

>>2464362
>>2464389

Eh, I hate it. It's trying way too hard to be indie / quirky / hipster; as if the novel needed that help.

>> No.2464435

I saw this cover for Ender's Game a few years ago. WHAT THE FUCK WERE THESE PEOPLE THINKING? They made it look like a kids novel with a smiling kid in a cool spacesuit. Totally misleading Yeah, parents should totally let their 10 year old read about the psychological struggles of a child general who kills another kid at the age of six and commits genocide before his balls drop, and all the while his elder sister wants to fuck him senseless and his sociopathic brother is orchestrating a worldwide soft revolution by trolling the internet.

>> No.2464439
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2464439

>>2464435
forgot the pic

>> No.2464444

>>2464435
I don't see any problem with kids reading enders game. I mean I don't care for the book, but its not going to break a kids mind and scar them for life.

>> No.2464461

>>2464439


Isn't that like, a scene from the novel

>> No.2464467

>>2464444
Maybe not, but I think >>2464435 has a point. I don't think it would scar the kids, maybe freak them out a bit but I think a lot of it would go over their heads. I think the main point is that its not a book for kids and the cover trivializes what is a very thought provoking story.

>> No.2464477

>>2464467

No, it's a YA novel.