Horrible Covers

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Horrible Covers Anonymous Mon May 19 01:02:06 2014 No.4907950 [DELETED]

>author's title is large and stylised
>actual title is in small print

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 01:09:08 2014 No.4907958 >Any reference to the New York Times on the front cover

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 01:16:31 2014 No.4907981 >>4907950 >Commendations on the back deal with other books the author has written, not the book whose cover this is

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 01:16:38 2014 No.4907982 >Generic landscape run through a cheap color filter

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 01:22:32 2014 No.4907992 File: 43 KB, 280x430, 978033051123001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Cover looks like this

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 01:34:23 2014 No.4908015 File: 1.43 MB, 2448x3264, 2014-05-18 22.33.25.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4907950 this one

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 02:02:09 2014 No.4908090 File: 104 KB, 853x570, 1383428537548.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4907992 What the fuck

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 02:20:02 2014 No.4908132 >>4907950 Every Stephen King book ever.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 02:27:48 2014 No.4908158 >>4908015 >cover pleb trying to hate an obv great cover charm is wasted on you

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 02:37:18 2014 No.4908177 File: 10 KB, 300x208, 1371301807729.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >raised lettering

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 02:44:36 2014 No.4908196 File: 217 KB, 850x684, lovecraft.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 02:49:33 2014 No.4908206 File: 72 KB, 310x451, 1391772240122.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4907992 >want to buy Blood Meridian >Amazon UK only has these shit covers

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 02:51:02 2014 No.4908212 >>4907992 yeah giant newspaper write ups is pretty much the worst

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 02:52:33 2014 No.4908217 >cover has a generic tween model on the front

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 02:53:17 2014 No.4908222 >>4908206 At least the spine looks good?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 02:53:26 2014 No.4908223 File: 68 KB, 326x500, blood-meridian.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 02:54:31 2014 No.4908230 File: 40 KB, 300x400, The-Myth-of-Sisyphus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 02:54:40 2014 No.4908233 >photos of humans of any sort on the cover

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 02:57:01 2014 No.4908240 File: 32 KB, 302x500, fuck you george clooney.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >cover has a picture of the film adaptation >it's not even the good film adaptation >it's not even a good picture from the not as good film adaptation

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 03:02:03 2014 No.4908260 File: 31 KB, 230x368, 9781840224306_1[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Wordsworth Classics

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 03:06:30 2014 No.4908275 File: 24 KB, 325x500, 41okUbYRDOL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4908240 Mine looks like this. I still bought it but shit you would never even guess this was a sci-fi novel.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 03:10:32 2014 No.4908291 File: 26 KB, 230x368, 9781853260056_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4908260 >tfw I have pic related

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 03:27:45 2014 No.4908333 >>4908230 >AN IMPASSIONED DEFENDER OF HUMAN REASON AND HAPPINESS There is no way this isn't fake.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 03:28:47 2014 No.4908337 >>4908240 >>4908275 Are there good sci-fi book covers? Ever?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 03:52:43 2014 No.4908381 File: 306 KB, 837x1390, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4908337

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 03:56:35 2014 No.4908389 >>4908337 Pulp Sci-Fi covers during the Golden Age were perfect for exactly what they were and what they were trying to accomplish. Pulp is just fucking awesome.

Anonymous Mon May 19 04:21:58 2014 No.4908426
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>>4908206
Amazon Germany has 2 other covers of the english version available, left one from a Hardcover, right one from a Paperback

http://www.amazon.de/Blood-Meridian-Evening-Redness-International/dp/0679728759/ref=tmm_pap_title_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400487360&sr=8-1

or

http://www.amazon.de/Blood-Meridian-Evening-Redness-Library/dp/0679641041/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1400487360&sr=8-1

books from the UK take around 2-3 weeks to deliver for some reason (measured from my place, London is nearer than Munich) so I imagine it'd be the same the other way round if you're interested to buy them.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 04:33:57 2014 No.4908453 >>4908426 no wait, left one is the paperback, right one is the hardcover, silly me

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 04:53:26 2014 No.4908486 >>4908223 >>4907992 Fuck you guys I like these covers

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 04:57:16 2014 No.4908491 >>4908486 The style is okay but those fuckhuge blurbs are awful.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 05:14:40 2014 No.4908508 File: 32 KB, 500x250, blood_meridian_desert.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4908426 >>4908223 Know what's worse? Trying to find a larger picture of this

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 05:24:50 2014 No.4908523 File: 40 KB, 616x362, w616_1382979150_blood_meridian_desert.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4908508 >he still doesn't know how to search for images on google

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 05:27:39 2014 No.4908528 >>4908206 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Meridian-Evening-Redness-Picador/dp/0330304496/ref=tmm_pap_title_5 learn how amazon works

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 05:49:43 2014 No.4908560 >>4908528 >this guy that book isn't available, except used for 18 pounds and has a terrible cover as well. that's why I linked to a different regional amazon after all.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 06:09:49 2014 No.4908598 >>4908523 >616x362 compared to 500x250 wow you showed me. What with your googlefu and all.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 08:15:42 2014 No.4908797 >>4908598 I sure did.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 08:37:52 2014 No.4908842 File: 2.47 MB, 3264x2448, 20140519_073448.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I AM THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ABOUT THIS BOOK

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 08:40:49 2014 No.4908847 >>4908842 >shortlisted for the Man Booker prize >read: this book almost one an award.

Anonymous Mon May 19 08:56:52 2014 No.4908869

>>4908842
Those books are silly. They're supposed to be in a contemporary setting and the internet plays a large part but Atwood only heard about Anonymous after writing the first two so there are some awkward references and mentions of "lulz" all of a sudden in the third. Also, secret websites are accessed by clicking on certain parts of images on public websites. Sometimes you have to click through several layers of images to find them.
>technology

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 09:12:26 2014 No.4908902 >>4908240 >>4908275 I feel you bros

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 09:20:30 2014 No.4908915 File: 112 KB, 620x1050, starless.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 09:30:55 2014 No.4908936 File: 91 KB, 400x674, harrison spock.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I actually read this version

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 09:44:58 2014 No.4908963 File: 2.38 MB, 2000x3552, WP_20140519_003[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4908260 That one is pretty shit.. I've got this one, though.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 09:56:12 2014 No.4908981 >>4908206 book depository is magical http://www.bookdepository.com/

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 09:57:34 2014 No.4908983 >>4908981 Or abe books. They ship worldwide, have assloads of different editions and cheap used books.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 09:58:52 2014 No.4908987 File: 101 KB, 300x400, outsider.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4908333 no it's real

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 10:19:38 2014 No.4909040 File: 72 KB, 260x403, penguin dracula.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >based penguin fighting the good fight

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 10:34:14 2014 No.4909064 >>4908963 I have the norton critical edition, which contains tons of goat tier extras (essays, criticism, letters from FMD himself). But the cover looks like a fan fic sketch by a fucking 14 year old.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 10:36:55 2014 No.4909069 File: 35 KB, 247x406, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4909064 Forgot pic related

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 10:41:15 2014 No.4909079 File: 134 KB, 828x1280, 9780226470498.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw when I ordered a decades old second-hand one for almost the same price just because I couldn't handle that fucking cover

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 10:46:02 2014 No.4909087 File: 40 KB, 350x526, yes this is actually real.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 10:51:08 2014 No.4909094 File: 37 KB, 403x296, msw.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4909087

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 10:51:46 2014 No.4909095 >>4909079 That's not too bad actually. I'd prefer it if they called it "Homer's Iliad" rather than trying to sound different with the phrasing.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 10:51:58 2014 No.4909096 >>4909087 kek, that can't be real.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 10:52:48 2014 No.4909100 >>4909087 It's not even a fucking screw they're turning. Turn of the fucking SCREWED

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 10:59:39 2014 No.4909115 File: 442 KB, 570x472, book cover fw jj.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Might as well make our own to be honest.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:03:22 2014 No.4909127 File: 15 KB, 266x400, henry james jet.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4909096

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:04:38 2014 No.4909133 File: 51 KB, 350x505, lolita.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4909127 Japanese version of Lolita.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:05:14 2014 No.4909135 File: 19 KB, 302x475, norwegian_wood.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >covers with 3DPD on the cover

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:07:47 2014 No.4909140 File: 2.15 MB, 3079x2314, penguin classics.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I hope whoever thought this design scheme was a good idea lost their job.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:08:52 2014 No.4909143 >>4909140 They look like Darth Maul's cigarettes.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:21:03 2014 No.4909175 File: 30 KB, 372x400, 9781853260629[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4908260 My copy has glorious Napoleon Over The Alps, but I just found this monstrosity.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:40:28 2014 No.4909224 >>4909140 idk,I always liked them for their simplicity. As it conveys emphasis on the idea inside the covers, rather than the cover creating a mantlepiece.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:46:03 2014 No.4909245 >>4909140 Guy made Penguin so much money he probably straight up retired. Does that count?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:47:03 2014 No.4909247 File: 47 KB, 640x480, Snapshot_20140519.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4908015 that Lucky Jim is like a piece of art compared to mine Whoever designed this should be shot in the head, god damn.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:47:42 2014 No.4909250 File: 63 KB, 569x640, nineteeneightyfourdropshadow569_0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4909140

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:48:00 2014 No.4909252 >>4909224 They could have picked a colour other than fucking orange.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:50:02 2014 No.4909256 File: 1.49 MB, 3836x2272, penguin_books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4909252

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:51:22 2014 No.4909261 File: 125 KB, 650x370, green-popular-penguins.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4909256

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:53:32 2014 No.4909269 >>4909247 You bought it

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:56:38 2014 No.4909281 >>4909140 I like Penguin books. I have a hard on for simplicity in graphic design like that.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 11:57:42 2014 No.4909284 >>4909269 I bought it in a charity shop for 50p years ago.

Anonymous Mon May 19 12:09:19 2014 No.4909305
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>>4909252
Orange is the retro penguin colour. See this PG Wodehouse book from 1953 that I found in my mum's bookshelf. Later on they started having art on the front cover and switched to a solid spine of the same orange (most of the examples of this I've got are from the 80s).

It's like saying facebook could choose not to use their blue or bianchi could just not use their green --- it's a terrible branding decision.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 12:10:04 2014 No.4909306 >"This book made me wet" - Some Bitch-I've-Never-Heard-Of, author of Book I've Never Heard Of I don't give a good goddamn what Stephen King or Stephanie Meyer or Jesus Fucking Christ thinks about the damn book.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 12:14:22 2014 No.4909312 >>4909306 i'd be interested in jesus christ's opinions on pretty much any book to be honest

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 12:18:12 2014 No.4909314 >>4909312 tips fedora

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 12:19:23 2014 No.4909315 File: 283 KB, 1202x1600, jesus2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4909312 >oh fuck this, i'm suing for libel

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 13:48:17 2014 No.4909565 >>4908196 You call THAT! bad? Try the omnibus editions.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 13:49:58 2014 No.4909568 File: 19 KB, 315x500, lady Susan.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 15:03:11 2014 No.4909844 File: 48 KB, 314x500, 51aLO4R3jBL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4909568

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 15:10:16 2014 No.4909865 >>4909844 That can't be real

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 15:12:16 2014 No.4909871 >>4909844 That is just plain unrepresentative, isn't it? I can imagine vexation from people buying the book judged by the cover and finding out the actual novel isn't much like a smoking tough guy womaniser.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 15:29:52 2014 No.4909915 File: 329 KB, 613x492, pulptess1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4909844 I love these

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 15:54:53 2014 No.4909995 File: 30 KB, 306x500, PSU1334314336PS4f880560c0f74[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4908337 DADOES

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 15:56:26 2014 No.4910002 File: 22 KB, 246x379, fanucci_-_un_oscuro_scrutare[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4908337 A Scanner Darkly

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 16:16:32 2014 No.4910078 File: 68 KB, 314x500, 61Uu3uT88PL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4909865 oh they're real all right. search for "Pulp! The Classics" on amazon.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 16:17:36 2014 No.4910083 >>4910078 they are real, but they're new and a joke, not actual shitty old covers

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 16:33:57 2014 No.4910132 File: 54 KB, 312x500, 518xNCnt5eL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4910083 Does that somehow change the fact that they're terrible?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 17:58:57 2014 No.4910509 >>4910132 They're not terrible if they're jokes.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 19:19:23 2014 No.4910817 >>4908981 Whats the service like with them? Is the packaging good?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 19:50:54 2014 No.4910929 >>4909133 That Nabokov and his alien preternatural wonders.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 23:34:55 2014 No.4911748 >>4908936 I thought that was Nicolas Cage.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 19 23:42:47 2014 No.4911769 File: 24 KB, 225x300, 544730_322851677788116_219890663_n-225x300.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] "Master and Margarita" This is why we have floods, the Lord is punishing us

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 00:38:25 2014 No.4911908 >>4909915 obviously a rendering of Marilyn Monroe >>4910078 obviously a rendering of Baby Goose >>4910132 Marty Feldman? >>4909844 can't put my finger in it, but I know I've seen this actor/pose before.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 00:49:07 2014 No.4911935 >>4907950 >/lit/ What was that one thing people used to always say about judgements of books and their covers? Why does this thread have more than one response?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 00:50:16 2014 No.4911939 >>4911908 >can't put my finger in it, but I know I've seen this actor/pose before. is that just colin firth lol kind of cheap if so

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 00:53:54 2014 No.4911946 >>4911769 >>4911769 what the fuck

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 01:31:33 2014 No.4912054 >>4911939 I think it's Richard Burton

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 07:55:03 2014 No.4912875 >>4909087 I'd love to see their cover of Naked Lunch.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 08:16:57 2014 No.4912910 File: 37 KB, 322x500, 51Kz09gvDWL[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4909140 No way man. That cover design is a work of genius. So damn iconic. A whole lot nicer looking than the modern classics versions.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 08:18:30 2014 No.4912914 File: 61 KB, 372x400, 9780486400730.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] needed to replace my version and its only $6

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 10:06:27 2014 No.4913113 >>4911935 Just wait until you see a bookcase thread where they show off their fucking bookshelves like a pack of 14 year old girls admiring one another's shoes.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 11:01:33 2014 No.4913245 >>4909175 I don't like this one either. I'd rather have Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Kramskoi - she looks so much more like the Anna I picture in my head when reading. Also, this copy is full of terrible punctuation mistakes.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 11:02:39 2014 No.4913251 File: 10 KB, 200x312, anna-karenina-leo-tolstoy-paperback-cover-art.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4913245 Forgot pic.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 11:04:36 2014 No.4913261 >>4912910 >That cover design is a work of genius. You are aesthetically retarded. Just stop.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 14:00:05 2014 No.4913791 >>4911769 Christ

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 16:46:23 2014 No.4914349 File: 170 KB, 500x375, 6Qk7B[1].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4912875

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 16:47:42 2014 No.4914356 >>4907981 this I understand, first printings and all, no chance to reread them.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 16:49:21 2014 No.4914369 >>4908240 >could have used the sweet special effects at least >>NOPE BETTER JUST HAVE GIANT TRANSPARENT FACES

>>	Anonymous Tue May 20 17:44:45 2014 No.4914629 File: 92 KB, 497x300, A clockwork orange.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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