/lit/ - Literature

>>5208433
Sometimes fanart is better than the original.

Oxford University Press makes some excellent cover art.

William Golding - Lord of the flies (russian)

>>5208743

>>5208433
Big fan of these Don Delillo covers designed by Noma Bar

>>5208707
this is great too

>>5208830
he said no shitty minimalism

>>5208830
the first time someone did this, it was kinda cool
now it's lame, okay?
those covers ALL suck too...

>>5208830
That cover for Falling Man is striking. Some others at least have clever ideas.

>>5208433

THERE ARE FOUR BOOKS IN THE ROBOT SERIES
WHY DO ONLY THREE OF THEM GET THESE SEXY ASS COVERS?

>>5209056
I like those covers, but my favorites (Robot novels or otherwise) are the ones by Michael Whelan.

>>5208740
Why would anyone do that? That's just begging for "OCD" people to complain.

Probably just because I have such a hardon for the book, but I find this cover is absolutely beautiful.

Man, I like Penguins Classics cover. They're clean and look nice together.

>>5210666
>>5210668
Those are amazing..

>>5208433

i want dis

Ive always had a hard on for these. The austere, quietly powerful cover photos plus those jet black spines really capture the feels Raymond Carver gives me late at night.

>>5210678
no you don't
too big plus not hardcover

>>5210680
These are very good covers

>>5210686
Why is Harry Potter a lesbian?

>>5208433
classic

>>5210717
Mommy an daddy issues

>>5208760

I read the first book of the twoo and put the book down, I found the story patchily interesting. People rave about it but I didn't get too much out of the experience; should I read more?

>>5210762
The third book becomes something I can only describe as psychedelic and the slingshot ending of the last book on top of the slingshot of the tetralogy as a whole is pretty interesting. The second book is definitely the weakest, but if the third doesn't make up for it, it's just not for you. Try Fifth Head of Cerberus for a short version of the Wolfe experience if you haven't already.

>>5208707
shit i really like that

Very eye-catching, very thought provoking.

>>5210743
TUMBLING DOWN

>>5208724
Then why did you pick one of the shitty ones?

>>5210743
Is that book actually worth reading?

>>5210678
>translation

>>5210666

Whenever I see this as a thumbnail, it looks like a guy getting ready to finger an asshole.

>>5210655
Too bad it can't be found anymore.
Much like the original cover for V.

>>5210668
Woah, impressive.

>>5210966
Fuck I thought that too.

>>5208740
>>5209705
There are manga that do this across ~15 volumes

I've been scouring the internet for this cover and I can't find it. I really want it.

I love this cover.

>>5212893
Excellent cover. If only the dust jacket for the edition was as nice looking.

>>5208830
i fucking hate the white noise one

always like the original artwork

>>5212893
>>5210680
>>5210666
>>5209942
>>5208849
>>5208760

I like these ones.

Gonna dump some favourites...

(especially TPK one)

(Chiang one is dope and has really nice simple illustrations on the inside too)

>>5212909

The Vintage Faulkner is a bit distracting

Let's see, what else...

>>5213244
>author of Infinite Jest
>author of Infinite Jest

gee, no wonder he killed himself

stupid ass old sci-fi covers bring up a lot of nostalgia. can't help it.

>>5208433

It just needs less text and it would be perfect in my mind.

>>5213587

What do you guys think about these covers for Camus? Objectively I like them but they also look so much like P&V Dostoy books and they look pretty banal and forgettable when I look at them in my bookcase.

>>5210678
Terrible translation, you pretentious faggot.

>>5210717
Harry Potter covers can be comically bad.

>>5213875
Just don't suit the books imo

>>5213875
I really like The Fall and The Plague covers.

I fucking hate book covers that are just a generic painting from the 1800's. So many good russian novels have incredibly shitty covers.

>>5213875
they would look fukgin cool all together my guy

>>5213880
are you stupid, faggot?

>>5213596

>>5213257
I want to pick up that Chiang book now just because of the cover.

>>5213244
the pale king cover is wonderful

422

>>5210177

mine african american

the cover is awesome. the book would have been awesome if you cut 400 pages.

>>5214335
I like a lot of the covers they put on the penguin books great ideas.

>>5214345
ya, it's kind of bloated. i liked savage detectives a lot more

>>5213596
>>5213935
These are great.

>>5214493

Greatest I've ever seen.

this is the best i can think of

>>5214364
which, ironically, has a shit cover

god I love books

>>5216728
fag

>>5208487
>Sometimes fanart is better than the original.
And I see you didn't pick an example to support your argument.

>>5216855
Good god did you see the original? It was so bad fanart is better.

This is so good

>>5214345
I'll get shit for this, but I prefer this cover.

The gold looks so good when you see it in person.

>>5216753
fite me
no pls don't hurt me

>>5216687
is that someone being raped by a shadow?

>>5212926
This is a wonderful cover.

>>5216923
If it is, that's a pretty accurate cover.

>>5213222
Me too, bro. Me too.

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>>5217073

Holy fuck, hivemind shit. Have you found the Yellow Sign?

>>5216870
So, uh, is that book worth reading?

>>5217190
Am I the only person that thinks this cover is full of shit?

>>5217195
>Ernest Hemingway wrote in A Moveable Feast that when Fitzgerald lent him a copy of The Great Gatsby to read, he immediately disliked the cover, but "Scott told me not to be put off by it, that it had to do with a billboard along a highway in Long Island that was important in the story. He said he had liked the jacket and now he didn't like it."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby#Cover_art

>>5217201
very interesting.... but I still don't understand how the cover relates to the story at all. Care to give me an explanation?

>>5217214
It's a loose reference to the Dr. Eckleburg billboard in the ashland or whatever.

which is the better ulysses cover?
i like the green one

>>5217214
>The cover of the first printing of The Great Gatsby is among the most celebrated pieces of art in American literature.[38] It depicts disembodied eyes and a mouth over a blue skyline, with images of naked women reflected in the irises. A little-known artist named Francis Cugat was commissioned to illustrate the book while Fitzgerald was in the midst of writing it.[38] The cover was completed before the novel; Fitzgerald was so enamored with it that he told his publisher he had "written it into" the novel.[38] Fitzgerald's remarks about incorporating the painting into the novel led to the interpretation that the eyes are reminiscent of those of fictional optometrist Dr. T. J. Eckleburg[39] (depicted on a faded commercial billboard near George Wilson's auto repair shop) which Fitzgerald described as "blue and gigantic – their retinas[note 2] are one yard high. They look out of no face, but instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose." Although this passage has some resemblance to the painting, a closer explanation can be found in the description of Daisy Buchanan as the "girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs."[38] Ernest Hemingway wrote in A Moveable Feast that when Fitzgerald lent him a copy of The Great Gatsby to read, he immediately disliked the cover, but "Scott told me not to be put off by it, that it had to do with a billboard along a highway in Long Island that was important in the story. He said he had liked the jacket and now he didn't like it."[40]

>>5216687
Absolutely perfect. If I didn't already have two copies of the book, I'd buy an edition with this cover.

>>5213880
>>5211012
I don't speak french

>>5217234
I like the green/simpler one but I've always found the infatuation with putting Joyce's glasses and cap all over his work really cute.

>>5217234
I don't really like either one.

>>5210666
Is there an edition with this cover or is it just fan art?

>>5213258
>not appreciating the honeysuckle all mixed up on the cover

>>5217345
It's the Barnes & Noble signature edition cover

>>5210743

Don't care what you think of these editions. I love the cover of this one.

This face is exactly how I pictured Edmond

>>5217450
Kwaidan... that isn't a collection of Japanese ghost stories, is it?

>>5217461
I believe it is

>>5210680

These are good, but they violate the unwritten rule of "title of the book must not be overshadowed by the author's name".

Here's a /co/-related example of that.

>>5217531
The movie is incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG5mvupo9Wc

>>5217539
I fucking hate that Pynchon is easing his way into that. His name get's bigger with every book.

I try never to buy a book where the authors name is bigger than the title. It annoys the shit out of me.

>>5213875
I have that version of the Stranger, its one of the nicest editions of any paperback I've picked up. Something about it all is just so satisfying.

>>5209783
normally i hate this kind of shit but it's actually extremely appropriate for this book

>>5217556
For me it's the texture of the cover. Feels so good in your hand.

>>5217539
That's called marketing, pal.

Whedon has what people in the publishing industry might call "unit-shifting name recognition".

>>5217580
I still like this one best

>>5217585
We all understand that. No need for condescension.

Just because it's smart marketing doesn't mean it's annoying as shit.

>>5217591
>No need for condescension.
On /lit/ there's always a need.

>>5214515
I find this highly amusing

>>5217590
I still like... you!

Some Russian children literature.

>>5213257
I'm in the UK and can only get hold of Theatro Grottesco and My Work Is Not Yet Done without paying £50+. How much did you pay for Songs of a Dead Dreamer you lucky mother fuckaaa?

>>5217847
I'll sell you The Nightmare Factory for $50 + shipping.

>>5218971
absolute shit

Pretty much picked this at random but it's symbolic of these 80's sci fi covers (mainly by Chris Foss) that really captured my imagination when I was younger.

I used to go into our local library and see these books and they used to send my mind spinning with the possiblities their worlds seemed to contain. Of course they were normally hard sci-fi and completely undigestible to barely-teenage-me, but I still feel that same sense of wonder these days when i see them.

>>5219008
It's an excellent cover.

Butts has some shit ass shit taste.

>>5217333
No you wouldn't. Go check how much these editions go for on Abe books.

I wish that I could find a copy with this cover. I really do.

>>5214335
This shouts "The Wire" so hard for some reason.

>>5217352
Is that some mika mignola?

>>5217434
What edition is this? Very much like it

>>5219008
>>5219279
So bold in your non-choices. [Attention whores]

>>5219290
You don't want the one with his groin? >>5209054

>>5219431
Yes.
>>5219451
I think it's Thames & Hudson, the larger one in English. The smaller is some Dutch translation from a publisher with a big "A"

>>5209683
Fuck, I want this.

>>5217539
Whedon a shit