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1543850 No.1543850 [Reply] [Original]

Does anyone else hate it when a book gets a movie adaptation and suddenly the book is more or less universally marketed with covers based on the film?

>> No.1543852

No, because when the movie craze is over I can pick up a copy on sale.

>> No.1543854

Only if the covers suck as bad as that.

>> No.1543859

duct tape the cover. Now you have a softback and don't have to worry about the picture.

>> No.1543860
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>>1543850
totally

>> No.1543868

Yeah, I have a dislike for photographs in general as book covers and especially photographs of people. I prefer abstract or drawings/paintings.

>> No.1543871

>>1543868
I prefer huge titties.

See: >>1543667

>> No.1543884
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1543884

Every single time.

>> No.1543886

I shit on your conventions of "threads" and

>> No.1543888

Yeah, but if I was a publisher I'd do the exact same thing

>> No.1543891

>>1543884
That is bad.

>> No.1543905
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1543905

what about "I am Legend"
the main character is white
the story is set in LA
wtf picture?

>> No.1543912

>>1543905

hahahha

>> No.1543915
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1543915

No words.

>> No.1543918

>>1543915

That cannot be real.

>> No.1543923

Or how about Gulliver's Travels, with the new movie coming out with Jack Black that has nothing to do with the story?

I'm just glad they left the Country of the Houyhnhnms out of the movie. That chapter was sacred to me.

>> No.1543928

>>1543915

my god... http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/02/dantes-inferno-the-book-based-on-the-game-based-on-the-poem-ba/

>> No.1543949

>>1543915
nothing wrong with a cover, as long as it makes people interested

plus it looks cool, so even kids can walk around reading it and it won't appear dorky

>> No.1543956

>>1543915
that's hilarious, i kind of love it

>> No.1543964
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>> No.1543972

My copy of All the Pretty Horses has Matt Damon on the cover.

feelssobadman.

>> No.1543973

i hate the atlas shrugged edition with the bioshock cover

>> No.1543984

>>1543964
Movie is still better than the book.

And yes, it's one of the worst movies ever made in Hollywood.

>> No.1543988

>>1543973
takemymoney.jpg

I would love a proper deco cover on atlas shrugged, the original is cool, but still.

>> No.1543989

>>1543973

Wait, a game about how objectivism leads to crazy power hungry madmen turn people into insane drug-addicts with psychic powers serving as the cover of what is basically the objectivist bible?

>> No.1543994
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1543994

I'm glad mine doesn't look like this - I'd be all "grrr"

>> No.1544054
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1544054

Their not always terrible. Picture related.

>> No.1544067
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1544067

YES. Mainly because I usually hate the films.

>> No.1544071

>>1543988

I once took a shit in the house of the guy that did the popular covers of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. He also did the Ayn Rand stamp. I didn't know that at the time.

True story.

>> No.1544075

>>1544071
that's really interesting

>> No.1544079

>>1544075

More interesting than "BUMP" would have been, geez. I'm contributing here.

>> No.1544083

>>1543850

Yeah, but do you hate it more when a book gets written based off a movie?

>> No.1544093

I never liked the fact that my One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest cover features Jack Nicholson. Not that the film wasnt seven shades of brilliant, its just feels wrong since McMurphy is described as bit more ratty (and ginger I think) in the book than Jack.

>> No.1544096

>>1544083
I hate it when there's a book of a movie of a book.

>> No.1544097

>>1544071
Tell us about the house. What brought you to shit there? Were you just walking along and suddenly you had to shit and it was the nearest place?

>> No.1544106

please expand on your poop locations. i am from the internet and need to know. where did you poop? mayhaps post gps coordinates

>> No.1544112

>>1544106
>please expand on your poop locations.
>please expand on
>expand on
>expand

You mean expound.

>> No.1544116

>>1544112
no i don't

>> No.1544129

>>1544116
Well, you should've meant it then.

>> No.1544210

Absolutely. Every cover I've ever seen taken from the movie adaption has been terrible and confusing. I wasn't sure if the American Psycho issue with Bale on the cover was also rewritten to suit the film. That would suck horns.

>> No.1544225
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1544225

Sometimes, but this is probably my favorite book cover ever so I don't feel like it's always a bad thing.

But when it is bad, it's really bad.

>> No.1544227

ITT: fags that buy shit new from bookstores

You don't have this problem when you buy used

>> No.1544238

>>1544227
Unless, you know...you do.

>> No.1544522
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1544522

Ffffuuu

I straight-up took this book home and made a dust jacket out of a paper bag.

>> No.1544531

>>1544227
>You don't have this problem when you buy used

Because people who buy more recent printings never sell them to a used book store right?

>> No.1544533

>>1544227
hmm.

>> No.1544537

Learn French, read books in French, problem fix'd.

>> No.1544542

>>1544537
If I were to learn French well enough to pleasure read in it why would I ever read a book originally written in English in it?

>> No.1544581

>>1544542

To avoid the picture-related covers, obviously.

>> No.1544584

>>1544581

movie*

>> No.1546406

I find (and this may just be me) when I read a book I don't see very much of the cover, maybe I'm holding it wrong? How do you guys read books?

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1546513

My favorite character in this book is the black police officer who hates robots. And who is totally in the book. The cover of which has his picture. Yknow. Because he's in it so much?

>> No.1546918

>>1546406
Just because the cover doesn't change the other content of the book doesn't mean it can't irritate me.

>> No.1546926
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1546926

>read True Grit blurb in a bookshop
>reckon I'll read it at some point
>after a while, see True Grit movie billboard
>can't watch the movie without spoiling the book
>can't read the book without jumping on a bandwagon

>> No.1546931

>>1546926
Waaa waaa waaa. Do I spoil the book or give a huge shit what other people think about my reading selection? Waaaaaaaaaaaaa.

>> No.1546937

Well, if one can solely concentrate on the content rather than how the other people might think of you while reading it, you wouldn't mind greatly.

But then again, I would like to choose the covers.

>> No.1546940

>>1546937
You're a fat loser. Drop your trip if you don't want to carry this stigma around with all your posts.

"True Grit" was a really popular book and you could go to just about any thrift store in America and find a copy for 29 cents.

Even if you don't live in America, you could probably pay an American friend to go buy an old copy and send it to you; it would probably cost a lot less than purchasing new, even that way.

Through all this, the fact remains that you are a fat loser.

>> No.1546986

>>1546940
Although I do like used books. I also like buying books from a big bookstore.
Moreover, there are some books that I cannot exactly find in my local used book shop.
Come on, was that really necessary? I know this is 4chan. But this is a goddamn /lit/. If this is all you can gain from reading literary books, you should probably quit reading since obviously you are wasting your time and money.

>> No.1546990

>>1546986
Everyone goes south, every now and then, Geek.

Listen to Billy Joel.

>> No.1546993

>>1546940
And I think you are confusing me with someone else

>> No.1546995

more like meeklord amirite

>> No.1547005

more like dickfag lmao

>> No.1547014

This thread is now officially a name-calling contest.
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Well, you can insult me but please be creative...

>> No.1547015

>>1547014
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>> No.1547019

>>1547014
You scruffy looking Nerfherder!

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