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425294 No.425294 [Reply] [Original]

ITT We post the worst titles and the worst covers for books we can find.

You can post either a book with a bad title or an ugly cover. But having both is best.

Almost impossible mode: no romance

>> No.425300
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>> No.425311

>>425300
I came.

>> No.425312
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This ones title isn't to horrible but the cover just makes you go.. what the fuck?

>> No.425314

>>425312
That pussy is gonna get it.

>> No.425320
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425320

I don't know about you guys.

But this book cover doesn't scream tender kisses to me.

>> No.425324

>>425314
Omg, The fact that the cat on the cover probably was there metaphor for pussy makes this cover even more gloriously bad.

>> No.425335
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The best part is the quote by Oprah in the corner.

>> No.425354
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425354

I got to say I don't think the cover of this one really gives the reader the right idea of what they are in for when reading "the road"
Maybe if they shooped in a band of cannibals chasing them down the beach.

>> No.425368
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WUT WUT

>> No.425371
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>>425368
Can't be real...

>> No.425378
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my eyes, I think both men have the same face.

>> No.425382

>>425294
I read that book. It was actually ok.

>> No.425386

>>425382
exactly why was he called the lord of hissy-fit?
Is he whiny? Or is it the unfortunate name of a place?

>> No.425391
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425391

I think if you name your book "Hard for the Money" You pretty much know you aren't writing novels that will change lives.

>> No.425400

>>425391
>>425378
>>425368
>>425294

I like them.

>> No.425409
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>>425400
then this one is for you.

I think romance novels ,especially gay romance, have some of the WORST titles and covers around.
The titles and covers have to actually make it less likely to buy their book.

>> No.425436

>>425386
It's a shoop. It's actually Lord of the Sky. It's about a Scottish lord, who happens to be Lord of the isle of Skye.

>> No.425444

>>425436
so he never does any hissy-fits?

I am disappoint

>> No.425476

>>425444
No, he doesn't. The female lead is does, though. Constantly.

>> No.425492

>>425391
It...it took three people to write that book?

>> No.425495

>>425492
They got HUNG up on one part.

>> No.425545

>>425492
Gay romance takes three people: a top, a bottom, and an author.

>> No.426819
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>>425476
>The female lead is does, though.

>> No.426825
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>>426819
sir, your ears are arms. you have arms coming out of your head, sir.

sir, you have earms.

>> No.426831

>>425476
>The female lead is does, though.

>> No.426837
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>>425476
>The female lead is does, though. Constantly.

>> No.426845
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426845

The book is as awesome as this cover is awful.

>> No.426855
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>>425476
>The female lead is does, though. Constantly.

>> No.426863
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>>425476

Constantly?

>> No.426864

>>426845
That's an excited mexican.

>> No.426871
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>the female lead is does
hmm yes I agree

>> No.426875

>>426845
Admit it, you thought it said Batman at the bottom

>> No.426876

Retailers demand that gay romances are obvious to the consumer, that way they don't accidentally buy one thinking it's a heterosexual romance.

>> No.426926
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426926

>>425476

>> No.426958

>>426876
Really? I always thought it was the other way around, with het consumers being terrified they'd be reading about gay secks and liking it.

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>> No.426962

>>426926
sweet

>> No.426978

>>425335
That's gotta be a shoop... there's nothing sexy or romantic in that damn book. It's all rape and incest babies.

>> No.426998

>>426819
>>426825

Oh god I can't stop laughing at this for some reason.

>> No.427342

>>425495
You mean they kept DICKing around?

>> No.427663

>>426963
i read the amazon reviews and this actually seems pretty cute and funny, i'd like to read it.

>> No.428538
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428538

I've wanted to read 'What Are These Strawberries Doing on My Nipples? I Need Them For The Fruit Salad!' just because of the title, but it's like, from the 80s. The only copies are expensive now.

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>> No.428565
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>> No.428570
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>> No.428571

>>428562
That... doesn't look like a little girl.

>> No.428575
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>> No.428576

>>425354
>that can't be real...
>>426845
agreed!

>> No.428579
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>> No.428589
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you realize the title is Holiday with a vampire 3

>> No.428599
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>>428575

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>> No.428619
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>>428608
Oh wow, I can't believe that's an actual title.

>> No.428620
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Granted, this one was done in full knowledge that the title was awful. It's actually about a guy whose horrible publisher put his serious sci-fi into one of the smuttiest-looking books on the shelf. And the sci-fi convention he goes to trying to sell the book, and the murder that happens there. I love this book so much. <3

>> No.428640

>>428575

Forgive me, /lit/, but I am a newfag to your ways... What's so bad about this...?

>> No.428650
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428650

ahahahahaha

>> No.428656

>>428640
Go read it.

>> No.428667
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I really hate this cover. It's just representative of some of the blandness of the 90s.

>> No.428673
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>> No.428833

>>428673
lol wut is she a mermaid?

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>> No.428860

>>428833

Does she LOOK like a fucking mermaid, idiot? No tail? No fish scale? WTF R U STUPID

>> No.428891

>>428857
i must read this book!

>> No.428910 [DELETED] 

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>> No.428941

>>428860
I thought maybe she could turn into a human.
Since other wise the title and the fact she rides a dolphin would make no sense.

>> No.428948

>>428857
Nobel Prize-winning stuff, by the look of it.

>> No.428970

>>426845
>The story of a simple man torn between the flesh and the spirit.
So, is this a story of a religious zombie?

>> No.429103

>>426845
What the fuck are you talking about, that's an awesome 50s-60s paperback book cover! They all looked like that back then. You, sir, are obviously not a collector.