/lit/ - Literature

>Crash Postmodernism thead.

>>6111903

>>6111884
I was not prepared for this

>>6111916
bendydrick crimplestiff

>>6111916
better than the cover with robert downey jr

that anime that looks like it was drawn by a 6 year old Western kid

>>6111884

>>6111884

>>6111959
I don't see anything horrible about that book cover.

>>6111942
It was definitely drawn by a Western person but more discouragingly it was likely an adult.

>>6111945
Man, this one is even worst that that one of the Wordsworth Classics. Is this a competition?

>>6111990
i like that cover

>>6112014
Perfectly illustrates what's inside. Is their seriously a Penguin Classics edition of this though?

>>6112077
Yes. I thought they were kidding, until I saw it at my local bookstore.
Wtf Penguin

There were a lot of complaints in the media about this one when it was first released, but I don't see what the complaints were about. I'm assuming it's meant to be Veruca Salt on the cover.

>>6111936
certified goonie

>>6112114
pedophile acussations probably.
its not that bad.

>>6111945
>Fedor

>>6112014
I like this one more.

>>6112134
t-t-that is not that bad.
just literal.

>>6111903
>>6111911
Holy shit, what country are these from?

>>6112137
The problem is that they published that wanksponge's book with the black Classics livery, thereby devaluing all other works in the series.

>>6111959
>This generation's Vonnegut

>>6112147
Chile or Peru.
One of these shitholes.

>>6112165
Brazil detected

>>6111990

I have honestly never seen an edition of Lolita with a good cover

>>6112192
Not even the one with the ceiling?

I'd say it's a good cover, if perhaps not all that appropriate for the book...

>>6112192
this girl is cute.

>>6111959

>>6112179
Nah man, they're in Spanish. Doesn't matter what language tho. They're horrible.

>>6112210
Too literal.

>>6111916
Remember when Sherlock was pushing 60 and not a teenage heart throb?

>>6111945
ahahahah holy shit

>>6112192

>>6112014
man stewart lee looks smug as fuck

>>6112418
Was he? I'm currently reading the complete collection and I imagine him more as a 40 yo.

I will never get sick of posting this

>>6111943
Wait holy shit that's actually a cover

>>6112434
saw this in my local bookstore
is there an explanation somewhere online?

>>6111959

> this generation's Vonnegut

> an anti-novel

> female anatomy is le edgy

> last name is Mellick more like I'meh lick my balls rather than read this shit

>>6111911
lmao its a little mexican kid

>>6112488
>i drive

>>6112430

okay that's a nice one

>>6112510

>>6112445

>>6112077
one of his conditions was that the book was released under Penguin Classics

>>6112562
Jesus Christ

>>6112562
but imagine all the /v/ type people that read Dante because of it.

>>6112562

All my rage

>>6111884
The Neapolitan novels are fantastic; their covers not so much.

>>6112562
>includes an exclusive 16-page full-color insert and a special introduction from the game's executive producer

Finally!

>>6112562
Noooo :(

>>6112542
Saw this the other day and I thought it was some shit from an HBO adaption or something.

>>6112562

>>6112670
I've been waiting 800 years for this.

>>6112661
The world will be a better place. Thank you, Electronic Arts.

>>6112661
>>6112752
Reading is only for the elite.

>>6112847

>>6112847
>MTV original film

>>6112847

>>6112922
Is somewon cwoss?

>>6112979
Oh shit

>>6112488
>...
>...
>...
>...
>there's a painting of me aging in my place

>>6112496
That cover is fucking incredible

>>6112799
More like Anita Loos some weight

>>6111945
heahaehaehe holy shit
>FEDOR
>this guy's face
>this women
It is perfect. I will search hard and deep untill i acquire this version. I don't even speak taco runes but i want it for the cover nonetheless.

>>6113666
nice dubs

>>6112192
this one

>>6113674
Why? It's the pink spreading for the grey. It's youth getting fucked by the elderly man. I haven't read it, but that's what it's about, right?

It could also represent a book, or the ceiling that you look at while getting dicked from the rear. (like I said, haven't read it, so I don't know which applies to it)

>>6113691
It just looks like a pair of legs and some panties, dude.

>>6113704
Ah, that too. Wow, that's also good. Very interesting covers, why don't you like it?
>It just looks like
If that just is a substitute for ''only'', then you're wrong, it can be plenty of things, and you would deprive yourself of enjoying art if you think there is only one dimension to it.

>>6113674
that one is pretty dope. I have this one, it kind of reminds of these ugly new editions they publish after someone makes a movie out of a book...

>>6113709
Look at the post he responded to at first, genius.

>>6113691

>missing the point of the image this hard

yikes
the secondhand embarrassment is real

>>6112192

>>6112496
wow

>>6111903
>>6111911
>Ediciones Tricahue
>hue
No surprise there, really.

>>6113691
Are you retard?

Serious question.

>>6112979
No value lost there

>>6111924
>Mantleton. Skip Mantleton.

>>6112210
Seconded. But I wouldn't want to read that cover anywhere in public.

>want to buy some cheap books with paperbacks
>notice that almost every publisher save Penguin has shitty covers

I don't understand, why would they publish books with covers so shitty that you'd be willing to pay more so that you could get one with a decent cover?

>>6113824
>>6113841
Great arguments, you're really convincing me here. Maybe you should consider sending these well designed statements to an academic journal or something.

>>6112192

>>6112192

This thread is hilarity at 4am. U gaias r a hoot

>>6113869

it's very clearly panties and legs
it's a clever image, you're just a tryhard dunce

>>6112192

>>6113885
>a painting or picture only represents what I see in it!!
>you're just a tryhard dunce
The first thing I thought of when seeing it was a a book, then a simple color representation of grey and pink, old and young, the grey almost penetrating the pink. That's not tryharding, it was simply the first things I thought about.

But sure, mate, everything is what you think it is, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a retard or a tryhard. You sound like a lovely person.

>>6113901

its very blatant and suggestive
you're likely just autistic or doing major damage control on an anonymous imageboard

>>6113899
When I see that cover it always reminds me of a herpes pic on Wikipedia

>>6113899
perfect cover, just beautiful.

>pic related, edgy af.

>>.6112542
how is this face not a meme?

>>6113915
Haha I read that, it reads like a manual for LARP

>>6113985
I honestly tried because of the hype it gets over here from all the beta threads, but I couldn't, it's over sexualized man jerk-off for people that think being born a certain sex is some sort of achievement in itself.

>>6112661
zero?

>>6112525
I see this and I think Huck Finn.

>>6113906
>not being able to empathize with other people's interpretations of abstract phenomena
>calling people autistic

>>6113873
why

>>6114080

I can empathize with his stilted 'interpretation' of the image
I'm just pointing out there is a very blatant and basic image being shown consciously on the cover and he failed to recognize it, opting to look at something 'deeper' to come up with an explanation as to why the pic was posted

>>6114089
Maybe it's blatent to you, it isn't to me. I don't surround myself with cartoony panties, so my frame of reference is obviously not suited to look at it like that.

Pic related is a ceiling corner, which is what I saw it as, the stripes in the wite can be seen as pages in a pink opened book as well. The grey penetrating the pink was a bit of a stretch into the symbolic, but it's not an invalid idea, and to go ''hurr retard u must be autismal for not seeing panties!!'' is rather childish.

So just because something is obvious to you, does not make it obvious to everyone. If you are used to different styles of art, or if you simply look at certain things you will find them quicker when looking at other things.
It honestly took you saying they were panties before it even came into my mind, I simply did not think of it.

But I don't know why I'm still trying to defend myself or explain this to you, when you've already shown you're incapable of acting even remotely civilized. I won't expect much more than a ''ur tard ;-)'' as a response by now, which you might even consider, purely for the sake of me having mentioned it.

Woolsworth.I thought they were fake until I saw them here in London. It's a shame, the books are so good but I wouldn't touch that with a 3-foot pole.

>>6114136

I've never seen someone so upset over not getting a book cover.

Really decent and funny book, horrible cover.

Wordsworth

>>6112192

>>6112057
hahaha

>>6114136
>>6114080
>>6113901
>>6113869
>>6113709
>>6113691

this is damage control of the highest caliber
good god

>>6113873
HAHAHA HOLY SHIT
its amazing@!

>>6114200
What the fuck

>>6114200
everyfucking time
>this cat
>this smug fucking cat
Holy shit
If there is anything i would pring in 4x5 meters format this would be it. I would put it out everywhere in ym city.
I would introduce myself as Voland. Everyone would be aware, no one would know what of.

>>6114178
Here it's pointless to say anything, as I can't prove I'm not upset, and insisting on it will only make it worse.
>>6114199
What are you even talking about, mate?

>>6111990
Oh, this reminds me I have an ice-cream popsicle in my freezer since last summer, was about to eat something too.

Thanks, Lolita!

>>6114182
>>6114200
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>>6112542
>>6111943
>>6114217

It's a shame that Wordsworth cover art have gone to shit. I used to buy them a lot because they were affordable and the covers were mostly art pieces etc, but the recent covers really put me off.

>>6111945

>Dostoiewski

>>6114217
>>6114215
>mfw wordsworth classics
holy shit
they are flawless

>>6111945
THE AXE IS BACKWARDS
HOYL SHIT

>>6113674
i love corner shots

>>6112510
that's so bad

>>6114224
>>6114226
Did they hire some other guy to do the covers or something? These are some of mine, I quite like them.

>>6114217
I felt a piece of my soul break in two.
Whether that is a good or a bad thing, only time will tell

>>6114230
Have you ever fapped to one?

>>6114244
I think it was cheaper to use some 3D abomination instead of license real art pieces.

>>6114244
I have the same ones, I kinda like them.

I thought the ones before were a parody...

>>6113873

>mfw

>Mujercitas

beautiful word

>>6114225
It's not like "Dostoevsky" is any better, seeing as there's no correct spelling of it.

>>6112488
>goose on the cover
>for you
glorious

>>6113691
jesus fucking christ dude theyre legs

>>6113691
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>>6114136
nigga u good? its just a cover, chill the fuck out

>>6112192
I like this one

>>6114628
>>6114676
Am I being samefagged or memed here or something? Why are people assuming I'm mad? I simply said what I thought it was. It's odd how the people calling me fucking retarded and everything are viewed as normal, while I'm supposedly the person fuming in front of his screen. Says a lot about the board, I suppose.

>>6114707

we are literally baffled as to why you didn't just say 'oh, it's legs and panties, I see it now' instead of doing Pol-Pot degrees of damage control

>>6114227

>>6114716
You really like that term, don't you?
Anyways, I did say this:
>It honestly took you saying they were panties before it even came into my mind, I simply did not think of it.
And I never denied it wasn't panties and legs, I just said I didn't instantly see it, and I thought of other things, which I attempted to show the people calling me retarded for even seeing something other than they were seeing.

I honestly think my post was horribly misread or something to even get the reaction it did. If you think me saying:
>Why? It's the pink spreading for the grey. It's youth getting fucked by the elderly man. I haven't read it, but that's what it's about, right?
was me saying that is the only thing it is, and nothing else, then you have misunderstood me completely, but this should be obvious from my follow-up posts, so I don't even know why people seem to be so vexed at me anymore.

Man, and people shit on Penguin after this. I've at least never seen a bad cover on them. Often it's a painting from the period of the book which is cool

>>6114737

you have to understand that when you wrote

>Why? It's the pink spreading for the grey. It's youth getting fucked by the elderly man.

it seemed like an outrageously off-the-mark reply, because you didn't see the legs and panties, and opted to describe something more complicated, which made the failure to recognize the much more simple image that much more noticeable

I don't know why this has to be spelled out for you, maybe you are retarded

>>6114227

Read the book. That cover is terrible, but that detail is correct.

Is Wordsworth doing this on purpose? I can't imagine it being any other way, SOMEONE must have pointed out how absolutely, hilariously terrible these covers are

>>6111884

>>6114759
I also described it as a book or a ceiling, which is a lot more simple, but that just got skipped over for a quick and easy chance to lob insults at someone.

Oh well, at least I managed to get some people to vent some of their bottled up anger. Have a nice day.

>>6114785

Good riddance dipshit

>>6111884
>Sofy es la vergüenza de la familia

Finally a book /lit/ can relate to

>>6112562
omg this is real

>>6113873
>mfw los gabachos no entenderán la referencia

>>6112201
>ceiling
It's a pair of panties on her legs, isn't it?

>>6114248
i've fapped while absently staring into a corner of the room before, but who hasn't?

>>6114803
>implicando que nosotros no son sinverguensas

>>6111969

why did people get along better in the 80's?

>>6114904
no internet

>>6114882
>Informacion que cura

>>6112114
But it's a cute cover. I don't see anything wrong.

>>6114918
I don't know what you tried to say but what you said doesn't mean what you think it means.

>>6114943
yes it does, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RAgAZOdnMs

>>6114737
Shut up you fucking retard. Even my son with Down syndrome says that it's panties and legs.

Can someone make a thread abut the best covers?

>>6112515
How can you do that to Horacio Quiroga.

>>6112799
The cover looks like something Tim & Eric would make.
>Anita Loos
Even the name.

>>6112488
And Dubliners, from the same guys.

>>6114676
Fuck off tripfag.
>nigga
>u
Oh aren't you so fucking cool.

Let the guy talk about the cover. Who fucking cares.

Bring on the meme responses, cool guy.

>>6114943
Yes it does you fucking dweller. You just got BTFO. Kill yourself waste of human life.

>>6114785
You scared them because you actually used your brain. This board doesn't like opinions unless they are spoon fed to them through obscure literature. You should have just said 'muh symbolism' and then they would have posted a bunch of meme stuff and their intelligence wouldn't have been threatened.

>>6114136
The real problem is you being so goddamn autistic.

>>6114217
Oh my god, I can't stop laughing.
This isn't real, it can't be.

>>6114737
Get the fuck out of here, man.

>>6114951
Are... Are they well written?

>>6114803
Cool. Now I want to read it too.

>>6115009
>getting so upset because of this shit >>6114960

>>6112434
My god that is exaclty how I pictered Pechorin

>>6114698

I like that one, too.

>>6111884
Those fucking covers.

Jesus

>>6114217
that's not real, you lying faggot

>>6114990
Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, Aidan Gillen, and who are the other guys?

>>6114698

On further research, this was never a book cover for Lolita, just for the audiobook.

>>6115256
Looks like it rips off Reservoir Dogs (stuck in the middle with you) but with changed faces

>>6114759
>>6114786
>>6114963
Alright, /lit/
Old woman or beautiful maiden?

>>6115282
Both dumb homo
You're not clever

>>6115282
I don't even see the girl.

>>6115294
How the fuck can it be both things at once, asshole?
Obviously it's one or the other, and cannot be interpreted otherwise!

>>6115302
No, clearly it IS both things at once. Just because someone is unable to see both at the same time that doesn't mean the other interpretation ceases to be.

>>6115282
I saw the maiden first, then the old woman.

>>6115282
The maiden has her head turned so you can't tell. So only the ugly old Jewess is visible.

>>6115302
She's a vampire you hard headed moronic imbecile. Jesus fuck how dense can you be? I mean seriously, what kind of sub-terranean rock level IQ do you need to be this stupid? How many times did your daddy use your soft baby head as batting practice when you were a young little meth-addicted infant? Fucking christ you're a mongoloid. Weapons grade down's. Fuck.

>>6114244
Those look nice
>>6112496
>mfw I have a friend who works at the Tavern in ATL
Thank you /lit/ this is beautiful

>>6111884
>El retrato de Dorian Gray
>Clásicos niños

>>6115261
I have Lolita with this cover.

>>6112496
>Implying Wordsworth Classics won't outdo some ragtag publishing house

>>6115764
please tell me the isbn because I can't find it on Amazon or ebay. I actually have to read it this semester and haven't ordered it yet.

>>6112192
my favourite

>>6115787
Look for vintage intl edition of lolita

In any case: 0-679-72316-1

captcha: gotem

>>6115810

Cool, thanks.

>>6112488
>for you

>>6115270
well yeah, that's obvious, but the faces are of actors not in the original film. Like I said, there are clearly Brendan Gleeson's, Colin Farrell's and Aidan Gillen's faces, but I can't recognize the other two.

>>6115282
a parakeet

>>6116207
Wow, I am actually angry right now. Good job.

A whole bunch of these are fakes from a fake cover thread that was on this board in the days of yore.
For example >>6116272
Do you earnestly believe that cover isn't a photoshopped joke?

/lit/ should make it's own series of shitty editions of classic novels. Here's my attempt.

>>6116349
She's not a loli, just a short moeblob.

I googled the notable film director and this is what I got.

>>6111969
>IF GOD LOVES ME, WHY CAN'T I GET MY LOCKER OPEN?

>>6114905
No internet and no phones. I saw group of teens out to eat, while waiting for their food they were all consumed by their phones. I like technology but it's killing us

>>6111945

>My hat's too tight
>This room's lights don't work
>I should've sharpened this last night

>>6116367
That's a murderer.

>>6114698
This is the best one.

>>6116924
Too bad the cover was so controversial the publisher pulled it and now you won't find it anywhere.

>>6116939
how was that controversial?

>>6112661
/v/ hardly talked about Dante's Inferno at all.

>>6116349
make one of gravity rainbow.
Just pust a turd in the cover

>>6116301
I don't think you understand
http://www.amazon.com/Dubliners-James-Joyce/dp/1452855811/ref=tmm_pap_title_24?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=

>>6112165
>Chile
>shithole
come on

>>6112979
oh fuck, so this is why all of the female YA booktubers love wuthering heights

>>6116367
this guy has a 9 inch pecker infa 100%

>>6113901
>>6114080
>>6114136
I'm with you, brother. You seem to have one of the few legitimately artistic minds around here. Whatever the original intention of the photo, I'm sure that many, including the photographer/designer/whatever and his/her colleagues recognized these possible interpretations. I wouldn't have thought of the gray/pink thing, but I can't imagine that those colors were chosen arbitrarily.

Keep on keepin' on. I'm in your (ceiling) corner.

>>6114757
They don't look like outright parody covers but they're not much better.

>>6115256
it is literally the 1 to 5.
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls052528421/

>>6114698

Can you guys see the penis?

It's subtle, but it's there.

>>6118621
>Can you guys see the penis?
nope

>>6116962
My guess is that it is too clear that the child will be a sex object from the cover for store owners to feel comfortable displaying it or something. A stretch, but the only place I have ever seen this cover was a second hand book store in Seattle so I don't doubt that it is rare for some similar reason.

>>6117785
Yeah I own that copy, and it's shit. Only bought it cause it was $1.

>>6114243
nice, someone posted my pic

>>6116365
BECAUSE SOMEONE PEED ON IT

>>6116349
Still better than dis

http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2nruxj/i_make_classic_books_with_alternative_cover_art/

>>6116349
/a/ is going to love this

>>6112496
I pity the goats and monkeys

Brazilian cover of The Quest For Christa T

>>6111990
That's a mature looking 12 year old

>>6112661
/v/ hates EA, and that game was never loved or hated over there.

t. /v/irgin

>>6114951
Holy shit these are real books

>>6114200
>>6114200
>psshht...nothing personal kid

>>6112488

BANE?

>>6119924

*personnel

when i saw it i literally thought "Is this glorious russian literature or some shitty hentai? Dostoevsky wouldnt be proud of it"
But book itself is really great

>>6119556
it looks like they were drawn for children's books or graphic novels

>author of

>>6120154
>implying that's not the best cover

>>6119556
>http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2nruxj/i_make_classic_books_with_alternative_cover_art/

> "Barnes and Noble has amazing hardcovers of all or most of the classics that are amazing quality and look great on an adult's bookshelf"

Jesus Christ

>>6120154
What book is this supposed to be?

>>6120154
what is that?
I can find anything about it.

>>6114244
What's wrong with the Njal's Saga cover?

>>6112137
Damn, he's really let himself go

>>6120268

>>6122448
>me and fat glenda

>>6120154
What am I looking at

>>6124937
Looks pretty epic to me

>>6122448
Fat Glenda's looking good. Them boys will be talking to her fo sho

>>6114988
fuck off anon, that book is a classic