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ITT: Best Book Covers

>> No.10801487
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>> No.10801494

>>10801479
Hey! That guy stole his cover art from Neon Genesis Evangelion!

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>> No.10801503
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I refuse to read this book until I get my hands on a copy with this cover

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>> No.10801531

>>10801487
is that harvey weinstein

>> No.10801553
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>> No.10802295

>>10801487
ayyyyy i can see a tiddy

>> No.10802297

>>10801494
I legitimately thought that was real until I found out that thread was an /a/ thread in disguise. Absolutely disgusting.

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Monitoring this thread, I'm only interested in reading books with good covers.

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>>10801479
I like it

>>10801487
hehehehe Harvey Weinstein hehehehe

>>10801498
ok i suppose

>>10801503
there was a lot of this in the 1970s. maybe it was all the same guy

>>10801504
not bad at evoking the book

>>10801516
this is good; it's like the title sequence to Vertigo

>>10801518
Yuck, gives a totally misleading impression off the book. Makes you think it's going to be sci-fi

>>10801553
not feeling it, sorry

>>10802304
err what

>>10802860
not bad at all

>>10803599
not sure about this


> Pic attached
I have heard at least three independent accounts of people buying this because of the cover

>> No.10803873

I will collect some of these and try to build up enough to make an official /lit/ awesome book covers infographic.

Remember, it's not enough just to be seen reading the right book - you need the right edition with the right cover as well!

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>>10801479

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>> No.10803927
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>>10803909

I always preferred this one

But maybe that's just because it's the edition I have.

What do people think?

>> No.10803929

Another way to approach this is to think of a book and then try to find the best possible cover for it.

For example I've never seen a satisfactory cover for The Sound And The Fury - any suggestions?

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>>10803927
the best lolita cover is one without a pic; however if there must be a pic then this is the best one

>> No.10804036

>>10803937
that one is okish but it's spoiled by the stupid irrelevant quotation from stupid irrelevant Vanity Fair

>> No.10804041

>>10803937
i perhaps agree that in general Lolita is best served by abstract cover art
still can't shake my preference for my old familiar cover tho :(

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>>10801479
Ayy I have this picture saved
Is it a good book?

>> No.10804085

>>10804046
i wouldn't get your hopes up

it's very, very seldom that a sci-fi novel lives up to the cover art

>> No.10804100
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Josh Kirby is pretty darned good at capturing the spirit of the Discworld.

These covers tell you exactly what you'll be getting :)

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>> No.10804132

>>10804101

What the Kentucky-Fried-F*** is that?

Doesn't look like a Shop job.

So someone drew that. Someone approved it. Someone oversaw the printing. And trees died for it.

>> No.10804202
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>>10804132
Illustration by Phil Hale. They're very good illustrations but don't really fit the books.

>> No.10804209

>>10804202

John 11:35

>> No.10804210

>>10803927
>>10803937
WRONG
it's>>10803909

>> No.10804216

>>10804210
The guy I was talking to said that already. I agree that one's not bad. I just love Miss Lollipop.

>> No.10804286

>>10803929

Another example is Emma. Never seen a decent cover for that. (Maybe Jane Austen is best with no picture.)
The whole point about Emma is she has to be attractive otherwise she's just annoying.
All the cover art I've seen has featured a 5 or 6.
She has to be a solid 8.

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>>10804286

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It's usually a good sign when they use it for the movie

>> No.10804550
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>>10804542
Or this one

>> No.10804559

>>10804499
OK, you got a laugh out of me. But was it worth the cost of your soul, anon?

>> No.10804589

>>10804559
Yeah...

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>>10804286
What about this one? It's German, though, but fairly recent.

>> No.10804913

>>10804681
I like her :)

Not sure the whole style quite fits the novel but that is definitely better than most I've seen.

She has to be a real cutie-pie.

That's why Clueless worked. Young Alicia Silverstone mmmmmmmm

>> No.10805708

>>10804132
I disagree. It's fucking sickly Kurtz tumbling through the shadows. It fits the bleakness of it.

>> No.10805833

>>10804550
Horrible. Movie tie in.

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>>10801479
I always post this one when I see these threads. I own this version, never read it though.

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>>10804100
While Eric's not the best in the series I love the cover

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>>10806565
They kept them across all translations too, including my editions. The French editions are quite similar, but the Japs did them... weird. I still like them tho

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>>10806881
The French are pretty out there with their cover art

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>>10801516
Kadare always got the best book covers

>> No.10807088
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>>10804101
I fucking love phil hale

>>10804132
you have shit fucking taste

>> No.10807092

>>10806904
fuck that's amazing
i love it
now someone write a good book to go along with it.

>> No.10807286
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>>10803909
>>10803927
>>10803937

lmao this is the edition i have what the fuck does it mean

>> No.10807287

>>10804132
> hating good art this much that you're willing to showcase how much of a pleb you are

Why do people do this

>> No.10807293

>>10804202

The cover for Nigger of the Narcissus is very good too. These are currently the most recent editions I think Penguin have put out. They're very nice covers.

>> No.10807295

>>10804681
i'd jane austen her emma if you know what i mean heh heh heh pussy

>> No.10807303
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nobody can beat this one

my mind was BLOWN away when i saw it

>> No.10807343

>>10807286
>white flowers = virginity
>one is red

>fruit, crisp and unblemished, so fresh there are still healthy leaves attached

>a book for the well read intellectualism of HH

painfully straight forward

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>> No.10807350

>>10807343
Fair enough, anon. Don't care if that's pulled out your ass, it makes sense. Thanks, man

>> No.10807352

>>10806888
Nice.

>> No.10807358

>>10807350
I studied art (in conjunction with something else), and that's basic symbolism, but you're welcome

>> No.10807380

>>10803858
Stop mass quoting you gigantic fag

>> No.10807383

>>10807358
That's pretty cool actually so thank you again for giving me a genuine reply.

>> No.10807391

>>10807380

What's wrong with mass quoting? (This is the first I've heard it criticized.)

>> No.10807394

>>10807303
hahahaha this belongs in a "what i expected" panel

>> No.10807404

>>10807391
When I hover of the reply I come across your dumb comment 10 times in a row.
I don't care about your opinion, haha wow I liked this cover! Not feeling this one though!
It's not too annoying if you do it once but 10 times is just insufferable, no one cares about your opinion on book covers that much

>> No.10807405

>>10807383
Hey, no problem, anon. Thank you for being honestly interested.

>> No.10807408
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>>10805833
I agree movie tie-ins are disgusting, but I was looking for the original first-edition novel cover they took the movie artwork from - it's this, I think.
I

>> No.10807429

>>10804046
Currently reading through it, absolutely great, the title story is amazing and only 25 pages long

>> No.10807447
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I've seen a few decent covers for Moby Dick, but nothing that immediately stamps itself as definitive.
This is my current favourite, but there must be something better out there.

>> No.10807471
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I've been trying my hand at making my own covers for books I can't find covers I like for. What does /lit/ think?

>> No.10807514

>>10807471

Pretty good. (Everyone expects humour with Mark Twain but this makes it clear they're getting something different, haha.)

>> No.10807531

>>10807514
Cool, thanks!
The program I'm using is pretty rudimentary, but I'm having a lot of fun!

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he said it was his most important work, and he worked on it for 7 years, so I'm glad I got that across, at least.

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This was the USA first-edition cover. I like the tone but I'm not sure it really works since that's surely a female hand. Whose is it supposed to be?

>> No.10807591

>>10807561
I'm assuming it's supposed to be the female main character, or the tranny

>> No.10807727

>>10804499
Ugh! TV tie-ins...

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Incredible

>> No.10808314

>>10804499

What are the references here? (I have never read that book)

>> No.10808934
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SF&F has so many opportunities for good covers

>> No.10809517

>>10808314
It's the bit where Master Pantsington - or something like that, probably - settles his rents on Emma's purview.

>> No.10809559
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>>10804101
This one's good too.

>> No.10809577

>>10809559
GODDAMN I LOVE PHIL HALE SO FUCKING MUCH

>> No.10809609
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>>10803909
>>10803927
>>10803937
>>10807286
can penguin books just fuck off with this shitty "stock photo with calibri text plastered over" shtick? It's so boring.

>> No.10809624

>>10809609
I can make a better shitty cover of that if you can find me the original picture.

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>>10809624

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>> No.10809704

>>10809676
wow thanks. very high quality photo with a very good angle

>> No.10809710

>>10809704
It’s postmoderm

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>>10801479

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>>10809609
Eh, found a different image, made a couple, fucked them up, then got bored.

Still, I like it. Looks kind of like an angel painting like this.

>> No.10809772

>>10809710
you don’t know the first thing about postmodernism, you could begin to begin to comprehend the tiniest sliver of the single grain of sand along the vast coastline that is postmodern theory, okay? you don’t to just get to pretend like you intentionally took a shitty picture then cover your tracks by falling back on such an esteemed legacy, you massive, massive pseudo. you living fraud of a man. you insignificant mind. how foolish the masses! how ignorant the children of today’s warped morality! you think you deceive anyone? you think we can’t see through to what you really are? have you even read the works of David Foster Wallace? have you even imbibed on the soulfully intoxicating prose of Thomas Pynchon? have you? have you descended into the depths, those undulating caverns of brackish misery. or do you just sit here on /lit/ and pretend to be an intellectual. "It’s postmodernism" you say? give me a break. I tire of your ilk. leave this board, leave this land. you are not worthy

>> No.10809779

>>10809772
Okay thanks

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>>10809742

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>>10809782
okay, now I'm done.

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>>10809805
okay, NOW I'm done

>> No.10809912

>>10809860
Fucking kek

>> No.10809932

>>10809912
fucking *lol

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>>10809932
Kek's utterly /lit/ and there's no need to lol anymore.

>> No.10809954

>>10809947
Are you serious?
LOLita.

>> No.10809959

>>10809954
>LOLita
You win, sir.

>> No.10810102

>>10801498
Damn, that one is fucking great!

>> No.10810149

>>10808934
This is one of my favorites. It represents the book perfectly and looks cool.

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>>10808934

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>>10803858
I read that book at 15ish solely because of the cover.
First Heinlein too, and went on to read a bunch more of his stuff.

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>>10804681
>>10804286
I just picked this one up.
Prettier than any of my other Austen covers

>> No.10811263

>>10801498
How is this book?

>> No.10811273

>>10807303
Looks like a shitty movie poster.

Really every cover in this thread looks like shit. I thought /lit/ was supposed to have good taste.

>> No.10811278

>>10811246
How is this book?

>> No.10811595

>>10811278
Pretty good, I have not read it in a few years though. I would like to reread it but I can;t find a copy with this cover.

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I really liked this hard cover of Ulysses

>> No.10811852

>>10809947
>>10809959
is this 2009?

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>>10811273

>> No.10811886

>>10802304
What's this? Looks interesting

>> No.10811890

>>10807404
Ey m8, plebbit is that way

>> No.10811937

>>10810728
yo, thanks my man. Have this book, but I couldn't find a cover for it.

>> No.10812543

>>10811886
Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory in Japanese

The image is depicting the bad egg part where violet gets dunked for being a bad egg

>> No.10812549

>>10802304
Thats a hell of a subtitle, and/or translation

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>>10803937
>>10803927
>>10803909
>>10807286
>>10809609
plebs

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>>10806881
Is that Amano's art?

>> No.10812560

>>10812555
Thats a cute penguin

>> No.10812607

>>10812543
Pretty cool

>> No.10812634

>>10807303
> literally running on a blade

>> No.10812638

>>10809662
> CATHERIIINE!!

>> No.10812641

>>10811273
> Looks like a shitty movie poster

thatsthejoke.webm