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Shit covers for great books

>> No.2130770

unsuitable cover but that's a really good photograph

>> No.2130769

That's a great cover.
Better than the purple one with the lips.

>> No.2130774

test

>> No.2130777
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>> No.2130786
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>>2130768
That cover is genius compared to the ones used by companies like Tutis, who publish public domain books with completely unsuitable covers.

Pic related.

>> No.2130789

>>2130786
that can't be real.
>Great Classic Series
LOL

>> No.2130790
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>> No.2130795

>>2130791
LLLLOOOOOLLLLL

>> No.2130797

>>2130789
They really exist - just search for 'tutis classics'. A world of awful covers awaits.

>> No.2130799

>>2130786
SHERLOCK HOLMES IS TRANSPORTED TO THE FUTURE?!?!

>> No.2130802
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>> No.2130804

>>2130803
These would actually get people to buy them.

>> No.2130806

>>2130791
I MADE THIS YOURSELF

>> No.2130813

Sauce for the Tutis covers:

causticcovercritic.blog(REMOVE)spot(DOT)com/search/label/Tutis%20bashing

>> No.2130816

Holy shit. They're real.

http://www.tutisclassics.com/

>> No.2130819
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>>2130816
I'm tempted to buy one of these just to make sure they actually exist.

It seems too unreal, like the site is an elaborate prank.

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>>2130816
Oh wow. I wonder if anyone actually buy any of the books on that site.

>> No.2130827
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I never get tired of looking for new ways this cover is wrong, but as I've come to love it more and more, I mostly just focus on the gimp-mask thought police. I know what's in my room 101, and it's those guys, wearing just the mask, no lube. [spoiler[DO IT TO JULIA, NOT ME![/spoiler]

>> No.2130828

>>2130827
I like how nobody has sleeves.

Like someday they all just decided they weren't going to cover their arms anymore. A farewell to sleeves.

>> No.2130830

>>2130828
I just spent the last twenty minutes in a You Laugh You Lose thread on /b/ and didn't even chuckle. I come back here and see your post and lose it. Fuck, man. That was funny.

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>>2130786


Tutis seem to have dialled it back a little bit, or at least stopped letting the CEOs retarded 8 year old son choose the covers.

Shame really, because that Sherlock Holmes one is fucking genius. If only Holmes HAD been some slab of genetically altered muscle from a spacefaring civilisation of the future. It would have improved The Hound of the Baskervilles no end.

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>>2130834
David Černý spoof. Now more Sadam!

>> No.2130842

>>2130828

Big Brother is Watching Your Biceps.

Shirts are sleeveless. Shirts have always been sleeveless.

>> No.2130844

>>2130834

Actually, I may have spoken too soon because I just saw pic related and my brain almost imploded from the sheer mass of fuck that it suddenly contained.

>> No.2130845
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>>2130844

see how fuck-filled is my brain? Fogort pictoor.

>> No.2130848

>>2130845
Hahahaha. It's the covers like these that make me think it's a joke website.

Kitties!

>> No.2130983
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Was there not a pool scene?

>> No.2130989
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I'm not sure what that city is, but it's not Oz.

>Mummy? I'm very grateful for the book you bought me, but...
>Yes, dear?
>Mummy, this book is called the Emerald City of OZ, but the city isn't emerald and it looks a bit like St. Louis off the telly.
>I bought it from Tutis classics dear. And you know what they say: "don't judge a book by its cover"
>Fuck you mummy. I hate you. I can't wait until you die and I can have the insurance money.

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I know OP said good books with bad covers, but I can only hope that the sheer shittiness of this cover makes up for the breach of rubric. If not, then I shall kill myself immediately.

>> No.2131022
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Asimov's Foundation Trilogy.

I have another edition for this, that has the trilogy plus Foundation's Edge.

A translation of what is written on the back cover:

"The Galactic Empire, that has exerted its power on all known planets for centuries, is to disappear: it will leave place to 30.000 years of ignorance and violence. Hari Seldon, creator of the groundbreaking science "psychohistory", knows what sad demise awaits humanity. And in order to preserve civilization he gathers the best scientists and scholars on Terminus, a small planet on the edge of the Galaxy: it's the First Foundation, creator of a great empire. The institution is doomed to be destroyed by a terrible and mysterious mutant who enforces a horrible dictatorship. But among the ruins of what has been a beacon of knowledge, it is said to exist, hidden in a far corner of the Galaxy, a Second Foundation. Those who want to destroy it and the survivors of the First Foundation are looking for it desperately. Its destiny lays in the hands of a teenager, Arkady Darrel, who hides a terrible secret..."

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Neuromancer

>> No.2131042
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Brotherhood of the Grape

>> No.2131181

>>2130997

what the fuck happened here

>> No.2131182

>>2131181

70s

>> No.2131203

>>2130768
Does anyone know why these editions never come to America?

I always think they have some of the best covers. Pisses me off a bit.

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THE FUCKING LION OF GODDAMN SAINT MARK

http://www.amazon.com/Lion-Saint-Mark-G-Henty/dp/8132045467/ref=sr_1_36?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=
1318351490&sr=1-36

>> No.2131208

>>2130999
I love the criticism that comes with these and I found this used for $1 and I was so close to not buying it. Utterly inappropriate.

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i need to collect tutis classics

>> No.2131425

>>2130791
That... that actually isn't photoshopped? It's a real cover? I'm not sure whether I should laugh or commit suicide.

>> No.2131448
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Because this book is totally about a suave gentleman rescuing a young woman who looks like Taylor Swift from her marriage with an evil-looking green man.

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>>2131448
Then they tried again... dat ass

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>>2131453
Then they did a lot of acid

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They tried a lot of things, but interestingly enough reading the book was never one of them.

THE END.

I like their cover for Ada though

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>>2131448

Goddamn, I own this version. Got it for free though!

All my Nabokov covers are shit. Here's another I own. Just goes to prove that old saying...

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>> No.2131837

Jesus christ, has no one thought to say it?

YOU SHOULDN'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER.

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>> No.2131845

>>2131592

excuse me what exactly about this cover doesn't rule

>> No.2131849
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Piece of shit cover, Does not do it Justice.

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>>2131592
I was blessed with coming across this cover of KQK first, and I think it's the best. Even though it has "gayest" written right across the top.

I have that copy of Bend Sinister too, though! It's not so much the image on the cover, but what it's made of that irritates me... it's like plastic so parts of the cover get brittle and break off in chunks. Shitsux.

>> No.2131855

>>2131849

I actually think that cover is perfect.

A pointless, worthless piece of old ireland, surrounded and wallowing in its own words.

Perfect Ulysses cover. The only thing it's missing are the words "THIS BOOK IS A FUCKING CON".

You c/lit/s and your Ulysses. You'll learn eventually I guess. T'choh.

>> No.2131856

>>2130828
I saw what you did... I like it.

>> No.2131864

>>2130834

So is this really the sort of shit Penguin put out these days? We may as well all stop reading.

Classic means nothing now.

>> No.2131867

>>2131849
That's the lighthouse from the beginning, I believe. I have a funny vision of how things went down that day but this is the one image I think remains consistent with most people.

I imagine it with respects to when Stephen walks on the beach in Chapter Three, that lighthouse is always in the corner of his eyes (if he opened them, that is). It's always just round the corner from Leopold Bloom's house, regardless of where it is situated, to me it's all very close together like a small seaside town near where I grew up. I never got how this is an "Irish" or "Dublinesque" text, save for the superficial place names and attention to detail. maybe that was his intention but it was not the effect in my view.

>> No.2131868

>>2131864
It's horrifying that you're not a troll. Its a bad photoshop among the many that we have threads and threads filled with.

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>>2131868

Penguin are releasing Peter Benchley novels as "classics", and I'm the troll? Yeah, sure.

>> No.2131886

>>2131879
>obvious pixellation and incorrect fonts

YUP, LOOKS LIKE A PROFESSIONALLY MADE 100% REAL COVER TO ME, CASE CLOSED.

>> No.2132005

Any Penguin cover where they put the fucking publishers name like a massive ad over everything FUCK YOU PENGUIN!

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>>2131042
>Brotherhood of the Grape
Is that their piss? HAHAHHAHAHA

>> No.2132403

somebody post more tutis classics

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>>2132403
Delivered.

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>>2130803
A cover so good Tutis used it twice.

>> No.2133302

>>2132587
dear lord

>> No.2133572
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The road looks fine to me.Such laziness is unacceptable.

>> No.2133577

>>2131867
Right. In the beginning of the novel, Stephen, Haines, and Buck Mulligan are living in this tower--it does make sense why this cover is chosen (I am taking a course on Ulysses now)

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>>2132550

Hmmmm that girl looks familiar.