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5510123 No.5510123[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Be honest, /lit/. Do you judge a book by its cover?

>> No.5510146

>>5510123
Well that all depends on what that is suppose to imply. Why does judgment simply have to mean a I am not going to get the book at all? Maybe I want the same book with different cover.

>> No.5510166

People who sermon about the underlying quality of a book with a poor cover often have the shittiest covers :^)

>> No.5510170

>>5510123

Just Wordsworth.

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5510184

>>5510170
>yfw wordsworth's shitty style almost works unironically

>> No.5510190

Sure, but my judgement doesn't end there. The cover is on the outside, so it's the first thing I see, and when I see it I make a judgement which causes me to look inside or not.

>> No.5510201

>>5510123
Yes. Both literally and metaphorically. I'm only human after all.

>> No.5510205

>>5510184

That feel when I have that edition.

Collins Classics are the only good cheap editions that do nice covers of classics.

>> No.5510216

Sometimes I buy the book that was my second choice when the book that was my first choice is only available in the variant cover I don't prefer.

>> No.5510222

>>5510216
Yes this very much

>> No.5510223
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5510223

>>5510184

>that can't be real
>it is
>and there's a whole selection of them
>mfw

>> No.5510224

>>5510184
> Behemoth
> Top hat
que

>> No.5510225

>>5510184

Do they purposely make the covers so unbelievably shite that it justifies the cheap price.
I don't understand why the covers are so god awful

>> No.5510241

>>5510223
Good lord.

>> No.5510246

>>5510123
oh zeeburg, did your ban get lifted?

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5510256

>>5510223
> There is a wordsworth Finnegan's Wake
> It has over 400 typos

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5510272

>>5510256

>the twist: nobody knows where they are

>> No.5510311

>>5510184
>>5510223

I have Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea from them, that cover isn't so bad, thought now it looks like they've got a newer, shitter version.

Also what's up with Ryu Murakami's book covers, who draws this shit?

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>>5510311

Forgot the image.

>> No.5510327

>>5510256
the whale is upside down

>> No.5510606

>>5510272
Yeah. Thats the thing. Two versions of FW are in print - 38, and 40 versions. 38 is the original text. 40 is the one Joyce spend two years spell checking, eliminating over 400 typos from, sometimes crucial.

Guess which one wordsworth uses.

>> No.5510618

>>5510123
I judge books by how good the author's name sounds. For example "Faulkner" sounds awesome.

>> No.5510671

I think a good book should have a good cover, but it's not always the cover is as good as the book, and in some cases, vice versa.
>>5510315
Yeah, the deviantart-tier covers tend to put me off even though his works are pretty good.

>> No.5510686

Yes, it's only sensible.