/lit/ - Literature

>>9879575
I've watched enough hentai to know whats gonna happen to that penguin.

>>9879575
>and Other Weird Stories

What?

>>9879575

>releasing a popular book with a trendy design

May be plebby but it sells and they get $$$$$$$

>>9879584
A short story writer wrote other short stories, and the publisher chose to fill out a volume with them. I know it's a crazy idea.

>>9879575
>Has Penguin given up?
YES

>>9879584
Lovecraft's genre of fiction is called "Weird Fiction." It's how he referred to his works himself.

happened a while ago

>>9879575
>>9880210
i unironically like book covers like these. they're colorful and interesting. perhaps too cringy to read in public, but who reads in front of other people anyway

>>9880845
How many times are they going to release this fucking thing?

They gave up when they created that science fiction label and did a hardcover of Dune.

>>9879575
Lovecraft isn't that bad but what an atrocious cover design.

>>9881111
that's the point you quadroon

>>9879575
Literally. like LITERALLY the most well known phrase about books is to fucking not. judge. them. by. the. cover. Who fucking cares, I would read a book full of pink veiny cocks on the cover as long as the book is amazing. Fantasy books are notorious for having trash tier covers and some of them are still good.

>>9879575
>>9880865
You autists are fucking stupid.

The covers are fine. They are professionally crafted. People will notice them. They will sell, as they are intended to. None of you are professional publishers and barely have an inkling on what works as a cover, beyond your own limited subject values.

They're artsy for sure, but they are doing so in a creative way that plays with the stock format. And integrating the Penguin logo into it was a nice touch for sure, since penguins actually appear as livestock in the shoggoth story.

What's wrong with reading covers like these in public? These aren't even hyper pulpy covers with half naked ladies with DD racks. Do you betas allow yourself to get shamed by the judgment of people who don't even read? If you can't stand up for things that you harbor an interest in, you don't deserve to enjoy them, or anything at all really.

>>9881269
Good, someone with sense.

>>9881419
The covers are objectively shit. 7/10 made me respond.

>>9881429
You haven't even read Lovecraft.

>>9879575
No fucking shit.

>>9881735
I honestly really like this cover and think would sell very well, it seems very approachable.

>>9879575
>Penguin Classics
>Classics
Stay classy, Penguin

>>9880865
>but who reads in front of other people anyway
I read exclusively on trains

>>9881735
this is fucked

>>9879575
These covers are just so much better.

>>9879575
>give meme author a meme cover so memesters buy it to meme it up online with memey selfies and such

Smart move desu. Got to get that pleb dollar.

>>9882151
>waah waah i need academicist dreck to go with MUH LOVERCRAFT OEUVRE so i can feel dignified reading it in front of normies
stfu pasty nerd

Buy the superior edition. Clothbound and comfy with a display box.

>>9882177
I love it when I forget to attach my image

When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.

>>9881269
As much as I don't care what a cover looks like, pink veiny cocks might be a limit.

>>9882162
>I need epic monster stuff on my cover so i don't have to imagine what cthulu looks like

>>9881735
You're probably not even Irish cunt

as much as i hate those meme'd up Barnes and Noble hardbacks, i actually like their edition of lovecraft. it walks the line between kitsch and aestheticism, like lovecraft himself.

>>9879575

>>9882199
Took you long enough.

>>9881735
I like that art but it doesn't belong on the cover of Dubliners.

Oh my, yes.

>>9882389
kek

i like this unironically

>>9881419
neck yourself

>>9879583
Haha nice one reddit

>>9881735
Thats a lovely cover, get over yourself

>>9882389
FUCKING KEK

>>9880210
>White woman miscegenating with black man above the O

It checks out

reposting the classic that started it all

penguin should go back to those powdery teals. the covers were just classier

>>9883001
>kek
Why would you do this?

>>9883042
Unironically better than the Penguin version.

>>9883665
To me something like this just looks cheap.
They just put some classic art and a box with title and author that could be pasted on any other painting.

>>9883665
Compare that to the cover they have now.

Who cares about the cover design? It's only there to grab your attention in a bookshop. You can't see the cover whilst reading, and you only see the spine when the book is shelved. People who care about cover art seem to me like they're more interested in how they look to others on pulic transport than the content of the book.

>Hating on book covers
>The one thing you AREN'T looking at when reading a book

>>9880845

wow

>>9882389

haha great covers desu senpai

>>9881269
You are so off-point I don't believe you're serious

>>9879593
Idk why you guys are hating on. I quite like it.

>>9883025

>>9882482
What? Why?

>>9882179
>made in china
nah bruh

>>9882385
This is the only acceptable B&N book. That or their old school brown/black leather ones

>>9879583
kys you lost normie

>>9880845
>its real

>>9880845
Oh fuck off. This has to be fan art.

>>9881419
>artsy
die

>>9883042
ahhaha what the fuck. is that real

What about Arkham House's Lovecraft covers?

>>9883042

>>9885877
Nice, they used my favorite scene from Mountains of Madness for the cover art!

>>9886441

>>9882665
>>9885723
>old /b/ memes are reddit/normie now
Braindead parrots.

>>9883042
>wordsworth classics

I never get sick of posting these

>>9879575
>the call of cthulhu
>no tentacles in that story

well done, penguin!

>>9881419
>>9881753
>it will sell therefore it's good
Capitalism has killed art

>>9882151

I unironically hate these, they feel so boring and formulaic

"Tekeli-li!" I like that Penguin cover!

>>9886548
I like this one.

>>9881269
They aren't judging the book by the cover, they're judging the cover by the cover

>>9882389

The one for The Invisible Man is great.

I like these covers the best

What do you guys think of this cover? Shoul I buy it?

>>9886594
which is the best penguin line is it modern classics?

>>9886629
> 3 eyed Cthulhu
Funny that Lovecraft drew him that way yet most artists dropped the third eye later.

>>9887167

Undoubtedly

>>9879575
Yes, and it gets worse.

>>9879583
Get out.

>>9887230
WOW that is bad

>>9885841
look at the comments they love it
http://lovecraftianhorror.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-penguin-edition-of-hpl.html

>>9880786
Thank you. I don't read lovecraft.

That's kinda cringe. But i blame modernity.

>>9881735
Oh, i have this one

The inside flaps have little pseudo expressionist comics illustrating lines from The Sisters & The Dead. They're fun.

>>9882151
Exactly. If art is going to be on a book cover, it should be tasteful and vaguely representative of what's going on with the book. Nothing overzealous such as the ones being pumped out now. Really, just the books title with the authors name are the best covers imo. Leaves all the books contents to the imagination, and there is no room to judge the cover for the cover's sake, let alone for the books sake.

>>9882151
>>9886572
Which of these two should I start with?

>>9887237
>introduction from series editor Guillermo Del Toro
Fucking hell. Why are they slumming it like this? Filmmakers have zero credibility when it comes to literature.

>>9886483
Seriously Huck Finn looks like a gay romance novel here, why

On a related note, which publishing houses put out the most aesthetically pleasing books?

I'm partial to Everyman's Library myself.

>>9887275
*a gay hobbit romance novel
fixed

>>9887276
library of america

"[T]he whole moneyed class, unwilling to face a change in their way of life, had shut their eyes to the nature of Fascism and modern war."

https://twitter.com/PenguinClassics/status/896759319798185984

>covers matter

Pseuds. This is booktuber tier.

>>9887276
New York Review Books Classics for paperbacks

>>9887237
What's funny is Penguin made that a hardcover, black ink edging and all.

>>9879575
You know it's a penguin classic because:
1) it's a male penguin;
2) shilling his literary views and horror short shtories;
3) a tentacle is hiding his schlong.
4) if it was a penguina (female penguin), we'd be witnessing a brassiere a la tentacle.

>>9879575
They should have made it an albino penguin like in Mountains of Madness.

>>9887358
Mountains of Madness isn't in that collection though.

>>9879583

>>9882389
If they ever get the rights to Infinite Jest they should have a penguin with its head in a microwave

I like these covers

>>9885877
The books are essentially pulp so pulpy covers aren't inappropriate (even if the illustration in question isn't).

The problem with the OP imagd is how nauseatingly self-referential it is ("whimsically" subverting the classic penguin book format, what quirky little joke for us book-lovers!) Pure trash.

>>9887450
I actually really like this cover, the art is nice.

Only acceptable cover coming through.

>>9881441
What kind of shit argument is that? This isn't a Lovecraft thread, you autistic neanderthal.

>>9887450
>>9887604
>Crime and Punishment, with illustrations by Dr. Seuss

>>9881735
Heh. This one might be regarded as an even bigger offender by some of you. I honestly like it, and the fact that it's so blatantly meant to appeal to the young adult literature reader demographic makes it all the more hilarious, as most of them will probably drop Portrait at once upon reading its first sentence.

Fuck you i like it

>>9887643
Forgot to attach file. I'm a moron

>>9887272
Doesn't really matter, very few if any short stories reference each other. Maybe like Pickmans Model, but it no biggie. I would tell you to stay out of the footnotes unless you're really interested, they spoil the ending of "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath". Which was fucking annoying.

>>9887644
I'm alright with this.

This one makes me irrationally angry for some reason. Not that their old cover of Cuckolds Nest was any great shakes either mind.

>>9887759
Reminds me more of Valley of the Dolls

>>9887282
Especially the subscription version since it's with the slipcase and without the dustjacket.

>>9883042
I don't know if they replaced it or just had two concurrent covers but there is a much better wordsworth edition that I've seen on shelves with the "concerned I might be gay" cover.

>>9887759

>>9883042
Can someone explain these? Obviously there is much better art that's in the public domain, why do they use these terrible covers? Do they draw the eye? Are retards more likely to buy them?

>>9887868
No not this one. The black and orange one with some type of bird on it.

>>9887759
>>9887868
There's also this one. They keep fucking releasing this thing.

>>9883748
sauce plz?

>>9887876

>>9887651
>foreword by Karl Ove Knausgaard

>>9887612
Everyman-esque, you mean

>>9887887
I'll be honest I like this one. It has irregular page sizes and feels nice. And half of the point of physical media is holding it, after all.

>>9879575
Yes!

Look at their garbage science fiction line. 6 fucking Neil Gaiman intros. 6!

>>9881419
These spuds just love to massage each others prostates while proving how /lit/ they are. Creative covers meant for the mass market are just easy targets.

All books should have cute anime girls on their covers

What's the non-fiction equivalent of Lovecraft?

>>9887944
The horror line is way worse. Just ugly, Stephen King tier tacky shit.

>>9887981
Nick Land

>>9886594
>the way the y and the h touch
>muh depth of field
>retarded white borders
shit tier

>>9882389
These are funny you killjoys.

>>9887986
i like king's covers better desu. at least from a design perspective

>>9887297
These are so good, top aesthetics.

>>9886466
>Getting mad at one of memetics most basic concepts.

>>9879583
Made me chuckle.

>>9880845
>>9881084
>>9885841
I unironically own the book with that cover, would post pics but im away from home

>>9887255
You're an idiot.

>>9880210
damn penguin be turning our kids into commies with baby's first book for marx

>>9886548
>literally judging a book by its cover

>>9888422
This cover could be anyone's from the 80s.

>>9887627
and your argument sucked shit even more

>>9879583
now that's a vintage meme

>>9887276
I prefer the old Everyman's, although it's hard to find them without half the spine flaking off

>>9887612
James J Joyce
George J Eliot
Thomas J Hardy
David J Foster J Wallace
Fyodor J Dostoyevsky
Leo J Tolstoy

>>9882389
>stereotypical images on the covers


REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>9886466
but they are binch

>>9887944
Neuromancer is aesthetic afeven though the rest are trash

>>9887966
is this real? I'd buy this

>>9883025
glad i wasn't the only one. jesus fucking christ it's all too real.

>>9880210
Just walked out of a grad school program in economics. These are some of the books about Marx that I had to read/be familiar with. Obviously read the entire Communist Manifesto, twice actually. But yeah, just remember it is cool and edgy to read Marx unironically and sport a sickle and hammer these days. Did we read any Mises? Any Hayek? And Friedman? Fuck man, even any Bernanke? Nope. Just some professors retarded two sentence summary of their works, why they are wrong, and why Marxian economics is god-tier.

Fucking commies man, I swear.

>>9892063
what uni is this, i want to unironically apply for the position

>>9886594
Really bad spines, I got out of my way not to buy these for that alone

>>9891867
https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Wonderland-Through-Illustrated-Classics/dp/1626920613/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502751042&sr=8-1