ITT: good book covers we always have some for the bad ones, let's have one for the good

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Anonymous Mon Jun 2 22:19:31 2014 No.4965009 [DELETED]

ITT: good book covers

we always have some for the bad ones, let's have one for the good

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 2 22:24:59 2014 No.4965031 >>4965009 What exactly is going on there?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 2 22:26:43 2014 No.4965044 >>4965031 He's being edgy and scaring the children. Or should I say he's being disquiet~ Good book though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 2 22:39:06 2014 No.4965086 File: 1.00 MB, 1310x2135, dunces 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4965009

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 2 22:42:06 2014 No.4965100 >>4965086 >an actually good drawing for this book instead of that other ugly ass pic neat

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 03:04:08 2014 No.4965907 >>4965009 Any clue who took that photograph or what its called? The publisher's website doesn't say and I don't own a physical copy of the book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:00:48 2014 No.4966269 I'm reading the book of disquiet and I'm having a bit of a hard time motivating myself to keep reading. it seems very repetitive and it really isn't going anywhere

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:05:09 2014 No.4966282 File: 149 KB, 518x793, m.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4965009

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:07:53 2014 No.4966296 File: 108 KB, 297x500, tumblr_mmlvftMepR1s8as3do1_400[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:08:57 2014 No.4966297 >>4966296 kek

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:10:09 2014 No.4966304 File: 644 KB, 391x421, 1400754098141.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966282

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:11:09 2014 No.4966308 File: 63 KB, 328x500, 51R47M6Y62L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:14:15 2014 No.4966316 File: 142 KB, 500x722, better than Kafka.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4965009

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:15:14 2014 No.4966320 File: 75 KB, 398x600, 123233456.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] best cover

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:15:59 2014 No.4966321 >buying books with cover art its like you want to be called pleb

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:18:54 2014 No.4966331 File: 170 KB, 625x833, gay gh.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:21:03 2014 No.4966335 >>4966331 >Someone spent time on this

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:21:41 2014 No.4966338 >>4966321 Why would you care about about what is and what isn't on the cover of your book? The only thing that matters is the print quality.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:22:46 2014 No.4966339 File: 181 KB, 600x958, Lolita-Keenan2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4965009

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:29:37 2014 No.4966346 File: 82 KB, 184x270, thumb57.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4965009 I've always loved this one, the colors are great.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:35:26 2014 No.4966362 >>4966338 because i dont want a shitty cover artists' interpretation of what decides the face of the book

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:38:58 2014 No.4966374 File: 1.55 MB, 1594x2506, moby-dick.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I always liked this cover

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:39:02 2014 No.4966375 File: 233 KB, 1102x654, nomabar_delillo_covers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] noma bar

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:40:00 2014 No.4966379 >>4966374 lol that's great

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:40:03 2014 No.4966380 >>4966375 oh, but fuck picador and their shitty recycled paper / warping pages

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:42:07 2014 No.4966383 disregarding the quality of the prose the 2007-11 reprints of the Stephen King novels were pretty good liked the colors 1/3

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:43:09 2014 No.4966388 File: 6 KB, 225x225, the stand.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966383 1/3 (sorry)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:46:43 2014 No.4966394 File: 7 KB, 124x200, the shining.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 2/3

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:47:45 2014 No.4966399 File: 69 KB, 735x1181, insomnia.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 3/3

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:47:53 2014 No.4966400 File: 167 KB, 1311x2138, 9780141045221.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] these are objectively the best covers

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:49:45 2014 No.4966404 File: 29 KB, 303x450, dracula_book_cover_1902_doubleday_89.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966400 this is way better nice dubs trel

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:51:21 2014 No.4966411 >>4966404 >some old pedophile on the front nah

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:52:12 2014 No.4966414 >>4966388 >>4966394 >>4966399 I refuse to take seriously any book cover where the author's name is disproportionately larger than the title.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:53:38 2014 No.4966417 File: 75 KB, 841x1238, bram-stoker-dracula-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966411 That's Dracula on the front, would you prefer Tolkien-esque?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 05:54:39 2014 No.4966420 >>4966414 How do you think they would've sold then?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 06:00:49 2014 No.4966431 File: 19 KB, 260x395, House of the dead.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this deserves to be more famous than it is

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 06:16:02 2014 No.4966460 File: 774 KB, 2272x1704, dscn4215.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966400 this is why you're wrong

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 06:16:57 2014 No.4966462 File: 68 KB, 326x500, blood_meridian.large.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 06:19:17 2014 No.4966466 >>4966462 >review on the front

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 07:06:33 2014 No.4966545 >>4966282

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 07:08:58 2014 No.4966550 >>4966269 I'm having the exact same problem. I've been on and off reading it for months now. It's consistently beautiful, but always in the same way. Any advice from anyone?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 07:10:42 2014 No.4966555 File: 60 KB, 550x831, 27857458.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I have this one I liked when I was a kid.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 07:13:17 2014 No.4966559 >>4966339 this, I really want this book with this cover

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 07:14:45 2014 No.4966562 >>4966282 L. O. L.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 07:15:45 2014 No.4966563 File: 38 KB, 200x321, 1400954721605.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966339 >>4966559 I wish I could cop an English version with this cover art. Lo looks cute as h*ck on this one.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 07:15:47 2014 No.4966564 >>4966559 What are you going to do once you get it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 07:17:58 2014 No.4966567 >>4966564 probably fap

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 07:18:41 2014 No.4966568 File: 83 KB, 600x960, 1400953960098.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966339 >>4966559 >>4966563

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 07:23:24 2014 No.4966576 File: 146 KB, 1303x2141, 9780141037431.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966568 >>4966339 objectively the best

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 07:45:10 2014 No.4966612 File: 203 KB, 806x1383, Parley J Cooper The Feminists.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966335 Probably one of those literotica->amazon flash fics - saw a load of porn of less than 10,000 words going for .99 a pop.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 07:48:18 2014 No.4966617 >>4966612 holy shit i want this so bad

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 08:21:46 2014 No.4966680 >>4966400 Fucking hideous

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 08:22:36 2014 No.4966682 >>4966612 I want to read this

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 08:30:00 2014 No.4966691 >>4966269 >>4966550 it's not that good

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 08:37:50 2014 No.4966701 File: 28 KB, 400x430, 9780141188232.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 08:42:06 2014 No.4966711 File: 15 KB, 281x450, 9781590173244.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Wish I could get a poster of this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 08:42:53 2014 No.4966713 >>4966711 and the book itself is really good, too

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 08:43:25 2014 No.4966714 >>4966711 Is it a good book? >>4966701 Read this, thought it was pretty meh, though maybe 2deep4me at the time? What did you think of it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 08:44:39 2014 No.4966716 >>4966714 I thought it was amazing. Left me feeling quite depressed for a few hours too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 08:45:26 2014 No.4966717 >>4966460 Those seriously look amazing. Plain white blue border. Fucking orange and a beige header looks disgusting

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 08:45:41 2014 No.4966718 >>4966716 Hard Rain Falling, that is.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 08:46:12 2014 No.4966719 File: 39 KB, 308x475, bloodmeridian.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966346 I dislike all of those McCarthy covers. I have this edition in pic related, I think it's fucking beautiful, probably my favorite art for a book. I like the

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 08:48:10 2014 No.4966722 File: 1.96 MB, 400x225, laughinggoose.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966612

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 08:49:00 2014 No.4966724 File: 159 KB, 450x677, Dante-Inferno-Cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 08:54:56 2014 No.4966730 >>4966718 Appreciate you taking the time to clarify Anon :3

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 09:11:28 2014 No.4966763 File: 24 KB, 339x500, neve-orhan-pamuk-nobel-literatura-2006-cia-das-letras-13818-MLB77528790_8419-O.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this one

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 09:12:29 2014 No.4966767 >>4966724 Holy fuck.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 09:14:32 2014 No.4966771 >>4966724 no

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 09:19:18 2014 No.4966783 File: 13 KB, 258x400, 02978545851.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966320 Absolutely. Proud owner of this one. Also:

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 09:43:11 2014 No.4966809 >>4966282 Is this shopped? Because that is some seriously dark humour for a publisher.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 09:45:18 2014 No.4966814 File: 137 KB, 480x800, Snapchat-20140526101731.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 09:48:48 2014 No.4966818 File: 15 KB, 200x250, Go_Dog_Go.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i really like it

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 09:49:26 2014 No.4966821 File: 104 KB, 400x592, vloamsche versie.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 09:53:30 2014 No.4966827 >>4966724 Dante keeps swooning because of the stress of carrying a 300 pound scythe through Hell. It all makes sense now

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 09:53:53 2014 No.4966829 >>4966431 I have the same image in my C&P spanish edition lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 09:54:40 2014 No.4966833 >>4966827 >not picking this up on your first reading wow, even the jews over at EA managed to work out that dante was carrying a 10 foot scythe, and you coukdn't? why do you even come to this board

Anonymous Tue Jun 3 10:45:35 2014 No.4966946

>>4966714
Americana was okay, definitely not his best, but I really thought it was when I read it , not having read any other Delillo or much of his gen. of writers

It's got the beginnings of that delicious sentimental Delillo prose also which can never be awful.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 10:47:48 2014 No.4966950 >>4966821 GOD JA! Hebt ge'm zelf? Indien ja, waar hebt ge die gevonden?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 11:17:11 2014 No.4967022 File: 107 KB, 300x463, 1102a457-7499-4782-b449-fb01cae06.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I really like this edition. Same with invisible monsters.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 11:24:54 2014 No.4967034 >>4966550 >>4966269 It's essentially supposed to be a collection of fragmented poetry and prose, but in the English translation it does blur together rather messily I'd imagine its spellbinding in the original

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 11:31:33 2014 No.4967049 File: 10 KB, 194x320, 000531491.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 11:32:27 2014 No.4967054 File: 2 KB, 76x101, penguinclassicinfinitejest.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 11:32:39 2014 No.4967055 >>4966339 Excellent.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 11:33:29 2014 No.4967060 File: 91 KB, 600x800, infinitejest1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4967054 top kek

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 11:34:47 2014 No.4967064 File: 120 KB, 400x644, 116587.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Unforgettable French cover of "Zarathustra"!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 11:34:55 2014 No.4967065 >>4966339 >What the fuck has that got to do with Lolita? >Ohhhhhhh holy shit! That's a damn good cover.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 11:36:36 2014 No.4967072 File: 29 KB, 399x650, 9780141023496.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I have this one. The paper quality and texture are excellent.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 11:40:26 2014 No.4967083 My favourite book in terms of formatting is Pale King >dat spacing >dat wide margines >dat pure white page colour

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 11:45:01 2014 No.4967097 File: 29 KB, 396x520, coverrw8.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 11:50:01 2014 No.4967119 File: 56 KB, 308x475, 184405[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The formatting is shit, but I love the painting

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 11:53:55 2014 No.4967135 File: 25 KB, 316x462, keyout.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 11:59:31 2014 No.4967157 File: 72 KB, 400x607, CP #3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 12:01:46 2014 No.4967160 File: 505 KB, 864x1296, 1397000877592.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] step aside, plebs!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 12:02:53 2014 No.4967168 File: 909 KB, 1480x2244, 9780141189574.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4967160

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 12:03:57 2014 No.4967171 File: 155 KB, 780x960, steppenwolf-bantam-1969.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4967168

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 12:05:08 2014 No.4967175 File: 22 KB, 200x292, 200px-Extraordinaryadventuresalfred.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4965009

>>	Poetanon Tue Jun 3 12:05:48 2014 No.4967178 For whom it may concern: In Italy classic books' covers are usually some paintings, therefore there aren't many good ones.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 13:07:17 2014 No.4967356 >>4966950 Ja, verdeelpunten kan je hier vinden: http://www.max-stirner.be/142679264

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 13:23:10 2014 No.4967409 >>4967356 Acco Leuven, tot morgen!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 13:55:03 2014 No.4967511 File: 59 KB, 301x475, 525304.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] My favorite

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 13:58:23 2014 No.4967524 File: 44 KB, 292x450, 6820.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not only do I like the cover, but this book is fantastic. Much better than Cloud Atlas

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 14:03:13 2014 No.4967542 File: 171 KB, 400x650, John-Williams-Stoner.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 14:22:11 2014 No.4967613 File: 53 KB, 311x480, ten days.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4967160 Pretty good. Would reread.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 15:18:51 2014 No.4967798 File: 325 KB, 1536x2560, fabio.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 15:27:45 2014 No.4967832 >>4967542 Except that that cover is responsible for me never wanting to touch the book. I do not fucking care about the emotional problems of some boring middle aged dude.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 15:30:29 2014 No.4967844 >>4967832 >never wanting to touch the book >never >emotional problems of some middle aged dude >middle aged dude >never >middle aged dude someday you will care, and Bill Stoner will be there

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 15:38:06 2014 No.4967869 >>4967064 Very cool captcha: themes staroach

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 16:31:06 2014 No.4968043 File: 224 KB, 913x1500, thisisabookineedtoread.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I saw this on a bookshelf at Kroger and didn't pick it up. Biggest mistake of my life.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 16:34:09 2014 No.4968052 File: 18 KB, 313x500, 41f7j0ECdLL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966576 pleb do you even penguin hardcover modern classics?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 16:39:36 2014 No.4968068 >>4966612 >/r9k/ wrote a novel >before the internet was even a thing impressive.jpg

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 16:47:29 2014 No.4968089 File: 100 KB, 500x795, hob.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 16:49:41 2014 No.4968096 File: 105 KB, 340x542, labyrinths1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i love this cover so fucking much. I like most of the black Penguin Modern Classics a lot

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 16:55:37 2014 No.4968119 >>4966701 i love the penguin modern classics line in general

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 17:07:00 2014 No.4968151 >>4967832 then don't fucking read it bro. i really like that cover, far better than the one with the photo of the old man.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 17:09:14 2014 No.4968161 File: 33 KB, 500x500, 6a00d83451584369e200e54f6ad89f8833-800wi.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] like this one alot

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 17:13:33 2014 No.4968176 File: 86 KB, 701x1024, 733309129[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966460 Minuit and NRF paperbacks look really fucking nice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 17:19:34 2014 No.4968196 >>4967064 i have this one. the translation is pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 17:29:05 2014 No.4968229 File: 319 KB, 374x557, CampbellCover.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Tue Jun 3 17:48:26 2014 No.4968304
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>>4967097
agreed
(backstory – found this in my neighbor's trash on the curb one morning, a few seconds after I pick it up it starts to rain so I run home, get to my room and look out the window and there's a fucking rainbow... I wish I was lying)

Anonymous Tue Jun 3 17:52:03 2014 No.4968315
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>>4968304
I found a copy of this on the London Underground and carried it half way across the city before realising I was going south of the river. I sat on it until I got off and left it there.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 17:55:45 2014 No.4968331 File: 212 KB, 1045x1301, Le-petit-prince-First-edition-cover-1943.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4965009 Clean, simple and elegant

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 17:58:36 2014 No.4968341 File: 690 KB, 1246x1772, 61.jpg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 18:05:28 2014 No.4968369 The Oxford World's Classics editions of The KJV Bible and The Divine Comedy are pretty neat OWC probably make the best covers as far as classics go

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 18:24:37 2014 No.4968466 File: 34 KB, 600x600, 1383932860_564517610_1-Fotos-de--Cuentos-completos-Jorge-Luis-Borges-Debolsillo-2013[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4968096 I have this one, you just can't design a bad cover for Borges.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 18:28:53 2014 No.4968489 File: 29 KB, 436x436, cat.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966462

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 18:30:18 2014 No.4968496 >>4966296 That's always been my favorite

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 18:31:26 2014 No.4968503 File: 119 KB, 200x313, Sachar_-_Holes_Coverart.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 18:39:54 2014 No.4968538 File: 70 KB, 223x351, catcher.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 18:48:51 2014 No.4968570 File: 26 KB, 267x400, mobydick_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966374 I always preferred this fan cover for that one.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 18:50:05 2014 No.4968572 >>4966374 Haha, that cartoony frown on the whale. Laughable.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 18:51:07 2014 No.4968576 >>4966460 Based Éditions de Minuit

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 18:51:26 2014 No.4968578 File: 27 KB, 304x475, HHGBG.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Reading this one now. Despite it doing the whole "author's name much bigger than the title" thing I like the cover a lot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 18:58:42 2014 No.4968605 >>4968229 great book, great cover

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:00:04 2014 No.4968611 >>4968503 I always hated that one Looks like a fucking fish

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:09:22 2014 No.4968649 File: 96 KB, 600x800, 503af6a3_life-of-pi-book-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Send help.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:16:17 2014 No.4968673 File: 51 KB, 267x400, PGN137[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4968570 This one's pretty good. Although apparently this edition doesn't have any notes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:22:02 2014 No.4968704 File: 11 KB, 220x340, 220px-Ilucifercover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4965009 Personal favourite, not a very high quality pic though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:29:08 2014 No.4968733 >judging books by covers Worst possible thread on /lit/ right now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:32:01 2014 No.4968749 File: 135 KB, 763x1169, 1308_the_handmaids_tale_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:33:44 2014 No.4968756 >>4968733 >he thinks appreciating cover art is the same as judging the books the art belongs to Don't make fun of him, /lit/. He's trying his hardest.

Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:36:53 2014 No.4968765

>>4966320
I got this...from a used bookstore....online....and it was the only one in stock...so fucking happy.
I do have one complaint, as I always do with pictures depicting genesis
THE GODDAMN SNAKE WAS WALKING ON LEGS WHEN HE TEMPTED EVE
HE WAS PUT ON HIS BELLY AS FUCKING PUNISHMENT

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:38:13 2014 No.4968775 >>4968765 How do you know that? Huh? Where you there? I don't see you there buddy so shut the fuck up and god belss

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:39:08 2014 No.4968782 >>4966339 The other one that is black and white and shows a real girls legs is the best this is a close second

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:43:02 2014 No.4968801 >>4968765 maybe they didn't have legs though, maybe they just slithered around like the one in the picture all the time, and then god was like "no, get down," and now their upper half has to be on the ground when they move too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:43:49 2014 No.4968807 >>4967060 she fine as fuu

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:45:46 2014 No.4968826 File: 41 KB, 300x479, Marius.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:49:51 2014 No.4968854 >>4968801 But snakes still fucking do that..

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:54:09 2014 No.4968872 File: 119 KB, 398x600, 1401786914175.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966320 >>4968765 >>4968775 >>4968801 >>4968854 Guys relax I fixed it

Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:58:40 2014 No.4968907

>>4968872
top kek
fucking beautiful
thank you

it just pisses me off that christians are so embarrassed of their own stories that they have to manipulate them and change them when telling them just so someone might actually believe that his horseshit was true

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 19:59:49 2014 No.4968914 >>4968872 fucking lmao you are a gentlemen and a scholar

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 20:35:57 2014 No.4969060 >>4968907 ok

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 20:38:32 2014 No.4969076 File: 8 KB, 200x308, ficciones.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4968096 >>4968466 I've got this one, i really dig it. Borges covers seem to be generally pretty great.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 20:46:10 2014 No.4969105 File: 18 KB, 260x400, ensceg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4965009

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 20:58:20 2014 No.4969158 >>4966331 holy shit this guy is great http://www.amazon.com/Anal-Area-Paranormal-Military-Erotica-ebook/dp/B0086W4X7K

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 21:13:22 2014 No.4969214 >>4968570 Pretty sure ive seen that ship silhouette somewhere else. Seems like some sort of stock art. Switch that up and it looks just great

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 3 21:23:12 2014 No.4969259 File: 47 KB, 259x429, 51kjLyeUUTL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] in my opinion, one of the best book covers I have ever seen, its almost a noir film poster.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 02:38:06 2014 No.4970399 >>4968872 Beautiful!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 02:51:43 2014 No.4970413 File: 272 KB, 822x1356, dostoevsky-notesfromunderground.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4969259 That is a really cool cover. Pic related is the edition I have. It feels more appropriate but is not nearly as pretty.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 03:05:31 2014 No.4970442 >>4966818 but where is it going

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 03:08:06 2014 No.4970451 >>4967844 even if you have some terrible deformity. dammit lomax

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 03:13:52 2014 No.4970471 File: 100 KB, 600x988, richard_powers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Richard Powers' cover art is nice. I dig the old school scifi paperbacks.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 03:24:16 2014 No.4970500 File: 33 KB, 325x500, PKD-high_castle-penguinclassics.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4970471 I really like my version better, although a lousy paperback.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 03:24:55 2014 No.4970502 >>4970471 really? you choose that even with all the good swastika covers of it?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 03:26:38 2014 No.4970507 >>4970500 that's a good one I also like the barb wire one and the ying yang one

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 03:39:46 2014 No.4970552 File: 520 KB, 873x1309, Hyperion 01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4965009

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 03:40:08 2014 No.4970554 File: 21 KB, 260x401, petersburg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 04:01:38 2014 No.4970623 >>4966320 that's beautiful

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 07:28:33 2014 No.4971055 >>4966374 'no'

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 08:07:58 2014 No.4971173 >>4966296 >liking anything to do with Gatsby pleb detected

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 08:17:53 2014 No.4971195 >>4969214 It's fan art so that's not surprising. >>4968907 >>4968872 I hate to point this out.... but the snake also had wings as well as legs.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 08:22:41 2014 No.4971210 >>4967171 pretty great. I have this one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 10:31:07 2014 No.4971562 >>4970554 I dont get that cover, it makes no sense. Can someone explain how it fits? I read the book btw.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 11:33:16 2014 No.4971718 >>4971562 >book is called "Petersburg" >painting of Saint Petersburg on the cover

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 11:40:39 2014 No.4971741 >>4966420 top kek

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 11:43:12 2014 No.4971747 >>4966724 Fucking horrible

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 11:50:12 2014 No.4971769 File: 19 KB, 348x525, téléchargement.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Great book, if you are into WW2 combat aviation. Adolf Galland was the youngest general in Europe since Napoleon I think.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 12:03:28 2014 No.4971817 >>4966462 >not maintaining one consistent font >review on the front of the book >using a font with a high transparency It looks like someone ran a WordArt document through Photoshop

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 12:04:52 2014 No.4971825 File: 31 KB, 256x256, 1379088223868.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4971173 >hating on gatsby because it's hip these are the plebs that come on /lit/ every day

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 12:08:04 2014 No.4971835 File: 55 KB, 566x859, gravitys rainbow.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4967097 This is objectively the best cover. I have the one designed by Frank Miller and it's just...not the same. But the Picador cover is pretty damn cool.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 12:10:12 2014 No.4971846 >>4968052 >hardcover >not trade paperback master race Must suck never being able to take books anywhere.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 12:12:16 2014 No.4971856 >>4968749 Never seen that cover before. It's always the one with the Swiss nuns in that circular prison.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 12:13:22 2014 No.4971861 >>4971835 i'm fond of this one even though i suppose it doesn't really represent the book well at all

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 12:14:24 2014 No.4971863 File: 135 KB, 500x738, tumblr_mcpo6tq6t01rxrxxxo1_500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4971861 forgot image

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 12:15:49 2014 No.4971869 File: 23 KB, 336x499, gr_sw.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4971835 Swedish cover on the other hand..

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 12:18:20 2014 No.4971882 >>4971718 deep

Anonymous Wed Jun 4 12:22:49 2014 No.4971903
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>>4969105
Companhia das Letras are fucking boss, I love their stuff, too bad it's expensive as fuck (I bought Against the Day in a black friday 50% off promotion for like, 30 something USD)

Still love the cover though

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 12:25:47 2014 No.4971919 >>4971835 Picador is my fav, easily One problem I have with Frank Miller's is that I'm rarely at home, so I walk with my books everywhere, otherwise it takes me forever to read, and that fucking thing is pretty much falling to pieces

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 12:33:20 2014 No.4971958 >>4967613 wow is this an actual poster?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 12:35:22 2014 No.4971963 >>4971718 Thats it? The painting reminds me of art noveau, the characters look like boyars in Beijing Opera dress. Its just a weird cover for that book and story.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 16:55:05 2014 No.4972772 File: 44 KB, 500x349, atr.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I always remember sneaking into my father's study and taking a sneak peak at this as child

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 17:03:58 2014 No.4972796 >>4967160 I have the Barnes & Noble printing with this art, pretty nice

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 17:10:42 2014 No.4972823 >>4971173 What's wrong with Great Gatsby?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 17:15:41 2014 No.4972838 File: 121 KB, 300x447, wrinkleintime.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I loved this one as a lad

Anonymous Wed Jun 4 17:17:08 2014 No.4972846

>>4971846
must suck having wafer-thin paper that still manages to be rough and a terrible quality cover that gets pockmarked and nicked every time you pick the thing up

penguin softback books are the worst things ever
hardcovers aren't even heavy

fukin scrub

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 20:38:39 2014 No.4973598 File: 1.50 MB, 1936x2592, palefire4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 21:47:57 2014 No.4973838 >>4973598 fuck is up with the writing disgusting

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 4 23:47:38 2014 No.4974145 >>4966296 Back in high school I thought Fitzgerald was black lel

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 5 03:42:40 2014 No.4974517 File: 131 KB, 609x1017, The Cipher.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 5 03:47:56 2014 No.4974527 File: 271 KB, 814x1387, CtBF.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I always liked this. There are better, certainly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 5 04:19:10 2014 No.4974576 >>4967613 Would Reed

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 5 18:10:03 2014 No.4976637 >>4971861 >>4971863 That can be said for pretty much every Vintage cover.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 5 20:36:58 2014 No.4977121 File: 15 KB, 330x500, elpeste-camus-500x500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 00:08:59 2014 No.4977867 File: 251 KB, 500x750, biggie_500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4965009

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 10:27:09 2014 No.4979020 File: 89 KB, 750x750, lolita-vladimir-nabokov-penguin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 10:40:44 2014 No.4979050 File: 13 KB, 197x300, Capote_cold_blood[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966724 Offensive

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 10:41:45 2014 No.4979055 File: 422 KB, 600x867, 600full-helter-skelter-cover[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 10:43:08 2014 No.4979057 File: 80 KB, 300x475, 999513[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 10:45:42 2014 No.4979063 >>4977867 >The AnnaSophia Robb story

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 13:00:56 2014 No.4979507 File: 50 KB, 267x386, Wise_Blood_(novel)_1st_edition_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 14:08:18 2014 No.4979707 >>4968576 if only they weren't so fucking expensive >mfw 10 euros for a 10 pages short story by Beckett

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 14:10:58 2014 No.4979719 File: 467 KB, 398x600, conspiracy lost.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4966320 One of my favourites.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 14:16:45 2014 No.4979735 File: 40 KB, 314x475, 13515805.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] There was a lawsuit about this one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 14:20:31 2014 No.4979753 File: 1.24 MB, 785x1008, ContesDeMmeDAulnoy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 14:31:56 2014 No.4979780 File: 301 KB, 610x843, enhanced-buzz-21099-1380027303-14.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 14:38:54 2014 No.4979796 File: 661 KB, 570x759, LoieDuCapitole.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 14:40:33 2014 No.4979801 >>4965907 Gerard Castello Lopes

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 6 14:41:31 2014 No.4979805 File: 62 KB, 380x563, flame.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Great cover, shit book. Last time I take a cliche at face value.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 03:07:48 2014 No.4982218 >>4967060 just beat off to a book cover thats a first

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Sat Jun 7 03:23:45 2014 No.4982247 File: 31 KB, 265x400, Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4968826 It really is a lovely cover.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 09:42:02 2014 No.4983132 File: 1.07 MB, 1304x2004, Leviathan_by_Thomas_Hobbes.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >nobody posted this

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 09:55:42 2014 No.4983161 File: 71 KB, 632x999, terra nostra.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4965009

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 10:07:01 2014 No.4983192 File: 70 KB, 446x665, 49790.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I've always liked this one. Nice photograph/

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 10:26:49 2014 No.4983244 File: 35 KB, 378x528, sun_and_steel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 13:18:27 2014 No.4983736 File: 33 KB, 361x528, Roadside-picnic-macmillan-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This one has always drawn me in.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 13:27:46 2014 No.4983766 >>4983132 that's not a cover

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 13:29:39 2014 No.4983770 File: 32 KB, 325x500, 41PRgEpid0L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] One of my favorites

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 13:31:40 2014 No.4983783 >>4983244 I read the first chapter of this book, and it seemed like a lengthy self-suck. I've been lifting for years, and it's still turned me off to it. Is there anything of merit later on in the book?

Anonymous Sat Jun 7 16:05:52 2014 No.4984479
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Couldn't find a good res of the book cover but I found the painting for Stranger in a Strange Land, I like it a lot for some reason.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 16:07:49 2014 No.4984483 >>4966809 Yes it is, look at the fonts.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 16:12:41 2014 No.4984493 File: 145 KB, 323x500, 2666-roberto-bolac3b1o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 16:15:24 2014 No.4984501 >>4979796 love this, don't know the book though, is it good?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 16:18:11 2014 No.4984507 >>4967160 would buy this for my wall.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 16:21:15 2014 No.4984512 >>4966719 almost great but too busy, i don't like long quotes on covers. this is the version I had, and I think it would be so much better without the quote,

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 16:41:14 2014 No.4984583 File: 330 KB, 747x1122, 9780143105022.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is the one I have.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 20:12:14 2014 No.4985163 >>4979796 Sweet.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 20:17:15 2014 No.4985174 >>4984583 >Foreword by Chuck Pahalianaunuanuk How cringey is it?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 21:20:56 2014 No.4985318 >>4985174 Can't be cringeyer than that cover.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 21:21:42 2014 No.4985321 File: 70 KB, 778x1200, in+cold+blood.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4979050

Anonymous Sat Jun 7 21:23:27 2014 No.4985328
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>>4984507
the artist is great. he has done a lots of concert posters for bands such as at the drive in and really i cant remember the other ones but they are all pretty well known. his name is kevin tong

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 7 21:54:19 2014 No.4985450 File: 2.18 MB, 864x1728, Daniel Danger Wolfman.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4985328 that's pretty sweet you might want to check out an artist who goes by "Daniel Danger." He does pretty similar stuff.

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