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Anonymous Wed Oct 5 00:48:17 2011 No.2119121 [Reply] [Original]

/lit/, despite the age old maxim, we all are deep down shallow motherfuckers who judge books by their covers.

So, what are some of your favorite book cover designs?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 00:50:17 2011 No.2119127 File: 23 KB, 263x400, the_Magus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] All the John Fowles one in this style.

Anonymous Wed Oct 5 00:52:17 2011 No.2119131

Y'know, I really don't think there's anything wrong with judging a book by its cover.

It's not like those things are just randomly chosen. There was certainly a room full of advertising folk debating over what their cover said and who it would attract. You can usually tell whether or not you would enjoy a book by the cover.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 00:54:17 2011 No.2119137 File: 27 KB, 256x400, the_Sailor_Who_Fell_From_Grace_With_the_Sea.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I've always found this one strangely appealing, for some reason.

>>	Tuan Jim !Y6d4OyAkDM Wed Oct 5 00:57:17 2011 No.2119142 File: 109 KB, 340x515, 340x_custom_1277485087951_whitenoise-front-cover-510x772.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] there are a lot of different copies of this book, but this is the one I have, and I love this cover

Anonymous Wed Oct 5 00:58:17 2011 No.2119145

>>2119131

OP here, and I definitely agree. If a book has the cover of a trashy-housewife-romance, the chances are that the book will be a trashy-housewife-romance.

i do feel sad that i've never seen a cover that i like for The Sound and the Fury/any other Faulkner novel. I feel like a publisher needs to do that guy justice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 01:25:17 2011 No.2119195 File: 5 KB, 120x160, th_9780141185637.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 01:28:17 2011 No.2119198 >>2119145 ive got an oldish paperback edition with a graveyard wiht a sunset that's just about perfect

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 01:28:17 2011 No.2119201 Redwall nigga Oh, and Harry Potter jackets are fagwater

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 01:30:17 2011 No.2119204 File: 52 KB, 309x475, 762885.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2119145 This one is beautiful with the gold and reds.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 01:31:17 2011 No.2119208 File: 34 KB, 400x400, Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Penguin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Are'nt we all forgetting something... ?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 01:32:17 2011 No.2119212 File: 22 KB, 194x300, 2000-gb-penguin-modern-classics-london-194x300.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Better

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 01:34:17 2011 No.2119218 File: 42 KB, 433x640, 1997-pol-da-capo-warsaw.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2119212 I like this one

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 01:36:17 2011 No.2119221 File: 13 KB, 183x275, jellyfishy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2119212 i like this. it was a happy relationship just too quick a read.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 01:47:17 2011 No.2119235 File: 67 KB, 640x480, songofsusannah.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm quite partial to these editions of the Dark Tower series, each cover has a different combo of colours.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 02:14:17 2011 No.2119257 File: 16 KB, 316x477, pygmy-chuck.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2119137 >mishima Brofist

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 02:17:17 2011 No.2119260 File: 23 KB, 324x500, John-Gall-Lolita-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2119212 What could have been...

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 02:20:17 2011 No.2119265 File: 24 KB, 168x282, Story.fearandloathing.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 02:24:17 2011 No.2119271 File: 19 KB, 200x306, 200px-AmericanPsychoBook..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 02:37:17 2011 No.2119280 File: 23 KB, 325x500, 762894[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 02:39:17 2011 No.2119281 File: 605 KB, 1024x752, The Crystal World full cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 02:39:17 2011 No.2119282 File: 58 KB, 237x350, 6PxqjMt83f5anspxv1Y2vqvSo1_250[1].gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 02:40:17 2011 No.2119284 File: 69 KB, 406x614, FlowMyTearsThePolicemanSaid(1stEd)-743453.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 02:42:17 2011 No.2119287 File: 81 KB, 333x500, 415[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 03:35:17 2011 No.2119319 >>2119265 >>2119284 >>2119287 These

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 06:06:17 2011 No.2119471 File: 59 KB, 303x475, 11114730.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2119260 Haha, wow. I would love to see that on a shelf.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 08:20:17 2011 No.2119556 File: 17 KB, 250x388, tumblr_ll1j25eTFY1qbpo7n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] maybe I couldn't love this book more. and couldn't care less about the cover.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 09:01:17 2011 No.2119594 File: 223 KB, 600x927, Jedediah Berry - Manual of Detection.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The book wasn't great but I do like the cover.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 10:41:17 2011 No.2119718 File: 184 KB, 1600x1067, 1bret.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2119594 I read the hardcover of this that was like a greenish-leather. I'm still not sure whether I liked it or not.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 15:42:17 2011 No.2120335 File: 32 KB, 500x500, 204832684.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 15:51:17 2011 No.2120354 >>2119260 i guess i must be terminally retarded for not realizing that the mouth is supposed to look like a vag there's probably all kinds of symbolism and shit up in that

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 15:59:17 2011 No.2120373 File: 32 KB, 500x333, 544289075_d734211b2d.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2120354 Bro, half the things in this world look like vaginas, the other half like dicks. Don't feel bad about it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 16:06:17 2011 No.2120383 >>2120373 And a hole viewed from above looks like a vagina and then a penis when viewed from the side.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 16:14:17 2011 No.2120391 File: 146 KB, 741x1155, Hobbit_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I have the original but I think I will buy this edition, it's cool

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 16:15:17 2011 No.2120392 >>2120383 Transgendered folk explained

Anonymous Wed Oct 5 16:17:17 2011 No.2120396
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i wouldn't be caught dead at a coffee shop reading half the shit i read, mostly because of the covers, too fucking personal man. I have an e-reader now and the stuff i read now, fucking wow. thanks /lit/

Anonymous Wed Oct 5 16:18:17 2011 No.2120399
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>>2120392
The difference being I have never seen a video featuring a well hung hole hammering away at a gross slut while grunting like Christopher Lee doing deadlifts only to pull out and drip out a money shot that looks like she wiped her nose on said slut's tits.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 16:19:17 2011 No.2120401 File: 228 KB, 400x643, thursday2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Also this

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 5 16:19:17 2011 No.2120402 File: 14 KB, 237x233, 1312481449199.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2120399 >never seen that video You obviously aren't looking hard enough, honey.

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