/lit/ - Literature

I like the Underworld cover with the twin towers.

>>6348704
holy fuck

>>6348704
That one looks like a dare gone too far.

>>6348686
They're smart and stylish covers but still look tacky through execution. I think its too polished.

>>6348686
Where's Americana?

>>6348686

I think the Running Dog one is excellent. The others less so (Falling Man could scarcely be more on-the-nose, for example).

>>6349228
end zone is nuke and football
great jones is music and the room
running dog is a spotlight on film and hitler
the names are quotes and people (cultists?)
underworld is headphones and a church(?)
body artist is lauren and tuttle
cosmopolis is packer's limo and downfall
falling man is the date and the towers
point omega is the desert and a face (elster?)

but what is underworld? it just looks like some fucky hand holding a baseball wrong

>>6349267
>some fucky hand holding a baseball wrong

Non-American here: I was reading a bit about baseball one time and I'm nearly sure the way that ball's being held is particular to a minority pitching style whose name escapes me. Basically between thumb and index finger and you give it crazy spin. Could be wrong, though (and never read Underworld, so no idea if/how it's relevant).

>>6349282
>a minority pitching style whose name escapes me.

(I remembered) Knuckleball!

>>6349288
Fuck any cover that has bright colors on it
Muted and dark and plain is the way to go

>>6348686

The Running Dog one's really good. The others are meh.

Where's Libra and Americana eh?

>>6348686

Which was the publishing house that reprinted classics with truly awful covers? I remember one with a guy who looked like Slash on the cover and it was something like "She Stoops to Conquer" or something.

They were kinda cool in a horrible way.

how amazing is this

>>6349311
Make way best Inferno cover coming through
I seriously love this cover, it's a shame ML hasn't updated their Paradise design yet

>>6348686

Picador a shit and I wish we had alternatives to them in the UK. I keep thinking the Running Dog cover is somehow Hitler or related to Nazism.

>>6349315
i recently ordered a copy of the divine comedy but the dust cover was shit. oh well at least it has the good artwork inside

>>6349321
>I keep thinking the Running Dog cover is somehow Hitler or related to Nazism.

>judging a book by its cover

>>6349325

Fuck, I apologize, I haven't got round to reading that one yet so I had no idea what it was about.

I'm jealous of the US McCarthy covers though.

>>6349326
>BOLDLY ILLUSTRATED

>>6349331

I nearly want to track down a copy just for the BOLD ILLUSTRATIONS. Finally put a face to that girl from Nantucket.

>>6349330

You should. It's one of his best. So good that DFW ripped it off, added footnotes and a load of boring shit about tennis and passed it off as his magnum opus.

>>6349308
You're thinking of Wordsworth.

And the book was actually "Crime and Punishment."

>>6349327
Nobody is judging the book. We're judging the lousy artwork on some editions of much beloved books.

>>6349445
>You're thinking of Wordsworth.

Doesn't sound familiar and google isn't helping.

You sure it was wordsworth?

>>6349453
>rising to bait that weak

I mean I know it's Thursday night, but c'mon, man. Maintain.

>>6349454
Are you thinking of this?
Sorry I don't have the original.

>>6349445
>>6349454

Oh wait, you mean this one?

That's not what I meant. The one I'm talking about was actually a guy like slash with a top hat playing a guitar and it was the cover for some old school classic.

The publishing house was really cheap as fuck and they had loads of really incongruous covers.

>>6349288
DIE HERETIC

the penguin orange stripes are the best book covers ever invented

>>6349465
Ah ok. My bad. When you wrote "Slash" for some reason I thought "confused Slasher."

>>6349476

I'm starting to think I dreamed the whole thing. I can't find any of them anywhere. Obviously, the publisher went out of business years ago, but I saw the covers on /lit/.

pic unrelated but contributory

>>6349484
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>>6349465

I'm starting to home in on it now.

I'm almost certain this is from the same publisher....

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>>6349531
Jesus Christ on a cross that's unholy.

We need to find more. This could dethrone Wordsworth.

Obligatory.

>>6349538
beat me by one second.

>>6349500
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>>6349546

totally solid artwork
my screen is now covered
in toothpaste and spittle

>muh suggestive homoeroticism

>>6349537
>We need to find more.

Can't find the slash one, or the name of the publisher. It's doing my fucking head in. It's like they just nuked their servers in shame when they went bust.

>>6349531
I found it! It's a straight rip of the Guitar Hero 3 cover.

https://leedsreads.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/90650-wessex_tales.jpg?w=652

>>6349572

You're a guitar hero. That was bugging me.

Wessex Tales, eh? Who'd a thunk it.

Still no idea who these lunatics were though.

Everyone (well, The Guardian) seems to hate this one, but I like it.

>>6349576

Ewww.

But also, quite good.

>>6349395
fuck this

i hate latin america and i hate spanish translations

>In store
>see chubby teen pick this up and talk about how he had to get it because he played the game they based it on.

>>6349579
Research yielded a company called Tutis Publishing.

>>6349586
the modern covers are trash

>>6349395
>Dorian Gary
>for niños

>>6349267
White Noise headphones being the ignorance to his wife's affair?

>>6349586
Idon't see what's wrong with it

>>6349609

It's pretty YA. I read it when I was 14 and loved it. I think it seems silly now. LIke most Wilde, tbh.

>>6349602

And now the floodgates open. Thanks anon.

I'm no handyman, but that is a fucking NUT or something, not a screw.

>>6349615
>muh sexualised innocence

>>6349626
>this is how we turn the screw

>>6349627

I think that's only sexualised if you already fancy kids tbh.

I think it's a good cover.

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>>6349626
W H Y

>>6349634
We're so concerned for the protection of children that it takes one ill-informed complaint to escalate into a public outcry.

>>6349627

It takes a little bit of work to overtly sexualise the picture. OTOH, the choice of character is odd unless the intent is to exploit the very tendency to do so. So I see it as sort of a wash.

>>6349650
I can't look at that cover without laughing.

>>6349647

A few people grumbling in the Guardian culture section is scarcely a public outcry anon. Calm down.

The fuck?

>>6349662
Now I KNOW they're just fucking with us.

>>6349299
thats not how u hold a knuckleball or any other pitch at that

>>6349654

Neither can I. Impossible given familiarity with pic related, although TOP HITS DER SCIENCE FICTION doesn't hurt.

>>6349681
It looks somewhat close to (what google assures me is) a knuckleball grip. Just one-fingered and straight is all. If there's a better explanation I'm all ears.

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>>6349656
Oh I don't care at all personally. People will always complain. It is a shit cover though.

>>6349607
Agree 100%. The photos may not be too bad, but that typeface does not belong. Yuck.

>>6349613
being media as god,

>>6349602
Great research team over at Tutis.

>>6349602
real subtle-like

>>6349602
sometimes one must just have faith in their wisdom

>>6349906

Indeed. They really pored over Defoe to get this one just spot on.

Sometimes you just can't limit great design to just one book.

Extra points for confusing Pelham Grenville with his author.

This one's pretty mad.

>>6349621
>it's not even a norfolk terrier
The greatest crime of all

>>6348686

There's another one at least. The new one.

I think they're OK, especially compared to some of the abortions ITT.

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>>6349650

I actually like all of these.

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>>6349500
I actually own this one.

>>6350314


You can't, like, own a book, man.

>>6349596
You rather him read the fuckin Divine Comedy, just another book that would end up as rolling papers for that idiot.

>>6351906
>book that would end up as rolling papers

Why do people say this? It's almost impossible to roll a cigarette out of a book. THere's no gum, for a start.

A pack of skins only costs about a euro, and books cost much more.

>>6351944
A dumb smoker will try to roll with it to look cool is my point. He'll destroy a perfectly good book in order to look like he's a smoker.

>>6349311
I saw the front cover once. I thought it was a joke and laughed.

Now I cry.

y'all don't know your shit

>>6348686
underworld and point omega's covers are passable

>>6352123
That is terrible and glorious at the same time

>>6351944

Not only that, but book-paper is far, far too thick to be useable. Rolling paper is extremely thin, thinner even than the onionskin paper some Bibles use.

>>6352023
>I saw the front cover once. I thought it was a joke and laughed.
>Now I cry.
>As a youth I wept in butchers' shops.

I actually think it's fine and all you delicate flowers need a kick up the arse. So .01% of the game's audience will read the book and .01% of them will persevere past the first three pages. So fucking what.

okay this wins

>>6348704
If you look abstractly the cover makes an 11

>>6349315
that translation is ass

>>reads books for aesthetic purposes

>>6352123
>you gonna suck this cat cock

>>6352123
what's wrong with that

>>6349576
thats the foot fetishist receiving it from close up

>>6353358
this is a real book?

>>6353401

Aren't those the guys who used to write those Choose Your Own Adventure books? It seems like a bit of a departure, thematically.

>>6353401
yes

>>6353318

that has to be a joke

>>6350794
Truly it is the worlds possessions but if one wishes to claim a book as theirs it is so
Much like how one would claim a title

>>6353318
fucking kek

>>6350314
A E S T H E T I C S

>>6349311
>reading the Longfellow translation

>>6352221
How is it compared to rice paper? I'm honestly asking.

>>6354025

I don't know what rice paper is, sorry.

>>6350025
Fuck think Im throwing up laughing
Where can i buy this

Whoever was apart of this piece of fucking polluted cunt slime deserves to be perpetually tortured.

>>6354052
Apparently it's super thin and I know that bible paper is goddamn thin.

Oh yeah, shit tier covers.

I hate these fuckin covers for Discworld.

>>6349565
Stu cat was the jumbie all along

>>6349465
found it

>>6348686
Yugoslavian edition of Less Than Zero.

I am not sure if person that decided to put that cover even read the book.

>>6350314
that one looks decent if you take it in the same vein as those vaporwave album covers

>>6356183
I agree, it's a good cover.

>>6356150

They might have seen the film. Maybe.

>>6356150
>spend an absorud amount of money for a best seller's rights
>waste no money on the cover or printing, making it cheap and forgetable
are they fighting against capitalism from the inside?

>>6355057
isnt that art from fuckin guitar hero

>>6349912
Keked 'till my coffee shot out my nose

>>6353401
It's a Photoshop of 'The Tower of Destruction', a children's novella

>>6354164
I actually bought the book because of the cover (and title). Never heard of Camus before. I still have it, though I agree, the cover does not fit at all.

>>6349282
A knuckle ball is held a bit differently. I'd guess that it's a circle change-up on the cover if little league memory serves me.

>>6349282
That's supposed to be a mitt catching a baseball. It's somewhat similar to the brewers logo.

>>6349621
I own the CoL49 from the same publisher and It's even worse.

>>6355057
That's the cover for a guitar hero game

>>6349465
i was waiting for this and u didnt disappointing me

There was a guy in a thread a while back who bought a cheap copy of heart of darkness, and received a super low res cover print.