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What's your favourite book cover?
What's the worst?

Pic related, disgusting. I wanted to read The Great Gatsby but it was the only edition available in the store so I walked out.

>> No.4278601
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>> No.4278617

>>4278592
What kind of a shitty-ass bookstore did you go to?

>> No.4278622

>>4278592
it's not that great anyway, op. fitzgerald is pretty boring

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>>4278592
Gatsby has a pretty good cover though

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>>4278592
I'll call your movie poster and raise you a Will Smith

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so badass..

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I love these Penguin Essentials covers.

1/6

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>>4278655
2/6

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>>4278659
3/6

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>>4278664
4/6

My gripe with this one is that his hat's red when it should be green.

>> No.4278669

>>4278592
If you think about it though, it's not necessarily a bad thing.
People who went to see the film, enjoyed it and haven't read a book in their life might be more inclined to pick it up if the characters from the film are plastered all over it

>> No.4278670

>>4278642
Has the Jurassic Park series always had roughly the same or similarly styled covers?

That's Barnes and Nobles, right? They sell those massive overpriced "fancy" hardcover editions that I want to like, but they're usually too cheesy looking. Being Barnes and Nobles, I'm not sure how the physical book quality holds up either.

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>>4278667
5/6

>> No.4278676

>>4278655
>>4278659
>>4278664
they are horrible
it's like a mix of b-movies of the 60s and hispter minimal movie poster

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>>4278672
6/6

Plenty more here: http://www.penguinessentials.co.uk/

>> No.4278679

>>4278676
>hispter minimal movie poster
I recognise all those words but together they make no sense to me. Can you post an example of a hipster minimal movie poster?

>> No.4278682

>>4278674
Is this supposed to be so poorly drawn?

>> No.4278683

>>4278679
Nm, I googled it and understand now.

>> No.4278689

>>4278679
http://minimalmovieposters.tumblr.com/

>> No.4278768

>>4278592

I work in a bookstore and we stock four different versions of The Great Gatsby (Penguin, Alma, Pulp and the movie one) and it's depressing not just how fast the movie cover sells compared to the others but that we have people picking up the non-movie version and asking us if this is the film DiCaprio was just in.

>> No.4278784

>>4278625
So wait, it's not an adaptation of the movie, but the original stories? Please tell me it's the latter, 'cause I've been wanting to read them for the longest time now.

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>>4278664
Is that a picture of Christian Bale in there?

>> No.4278809

>>4278659
artist is a dutch designer, piet parra

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Worst

>> No.4278861

>>4278831
What the fuck is that mess? Christ.

>> No.4278863

>>4278837
looks like gunter

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wordsworth masterrace

>> No.4278882

>>4278877
>dat collar
top lel

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>>4278882

>> No.4278905

>>4278784
nope, it's the stories alright

>> No.4278914

What's in the art of a great cover, /lit/? What does it need?

>> No.4278917

>>4278914
It needs to be abstract.

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i like dis one

>> No.4279159

>>4278917
To hell with abstract. I say symbolism is better. Or a simplistic image representing the major theme of the book.

>> No.4279163

>>4278670
Yep, even on the first editions.

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I can't decide if this is really good or just awful

>> No.4279241

>>4279181
Honestly it's a bit of both.

It's bad, but it totally works. I'd totally buy that paperback.

>> No.4279270

>>4278592
It looks like Gatsby is railing Daisy.

>> No.4279276

>>4278642
What's the publisher that does those books? I need to find their The history of decline and fall of The Roman Empire one volume hardcover.

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> 4 dollars

>> No.4279319

>>4279286

Oh shit, 10/10.

Is that real? That can't be a real cover.

Wow.

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>>4279319
It is. And the serie has even better covers.

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> implying that you wouldn't buy this given the chance to

>> No.4279367

>>4279286
is moby dick worth the read?

I remember having to read it in high school, but I honestly just went through spark notes when we had class discussions on it.

>> No.4279368

>>4279286
Fuck, these guys have THE best covers of all the classics. The Idiot cover they have is better than the one the Oxford version does.

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Fap fap fap

>> No.4279485

My copy of Moby Dick. I hate it.

My favourite is Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

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>>4279485
forgot pic

>>4279159
I'm on board with the major themes idea. If I had to make a cover for Infinite Jest it would be a carrot.

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>>4278672
Not even on the plane of the first pressing (have had this one for years)

>> No.4280469

>>4278831
Oh my.

>> No.4280472

>>4279495
My copy was the same. I took the jacket off though and it was a very nice looking book

>> No.4280473

>>4278642
Where did they get the idea for a t-rex silhouette?

>> No.4280477

>>4279181
That's an unreal cover. It's poorly done, but I just like it stylistically.

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>> No.4280500

>>4279367
yes, but remembrer, in 1851 nobody knew how the hell a whale was