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3311053 No.3311053 [Reply] [Original]

Recommend me some books with some awesome covers please.

>> No.3311070

infinite jets

>> No.3311136

>>3311070
Infinite Jest's cover sucks.

What else you got?

>> No.3311147

I think the apple on the twilight books looks pretty nice.
Only good thing about the books though, besides being great to start some fire.

>> No.3311153

What kind of covers do you like? I like Penguin paperbacks.

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3311163

They aren't for everyone, but the Penguin Graphic Deluxe editions are pretty sweet.

Also, i find that Vintage makes great covers.

>> No.3311191

>>3311163
Yeah I like those.

>> No.3311201

The Broom of the System (Penguin Ink Series)

>> No.3311204

that edition of the stranger where everybody got a crazy hat

>> No.3311206

>>3311204
I never understood that cover.

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>>3311206
It's absurd.

>> No.3311246
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3311246

http://bookcoverarchive.com/

>> No.3311250

I get huge hard ons for some of the covers done by Routledge classics.

>> No.3311308

>>3311246
Fucking thank you.

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>>3311219

>diogenes
>owning computers
>connecting to the internet
>consuming fruity sodas
>requiring electronic lights rather than rising and setting with the sun

No sir, I don't like it.

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>> No.3311331

>>3311319
I would buy that.

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>> No.3311351

>>3311318
Why not? He made use of the cutting edge technology of his day as well.

>He used likewise to say, "that when in the course of his life he beheld pilots, and physicians, and philosophers, he thought man the wisest of all animals; but when again he beheld interpreters of dreams, and soothsayers. and those who listened to them, and men puffed up with glory or riches, then he thought that there was not a more foolish animal than man,"

He also wrote books. He wasn't against modern technology. He was against useless consumerism. The internet is one of the best ways to reach people today, just like the agora was then. If he were alive today he'd probably have a website. And while he wouldn't buy soda's, he'd probably accept when offered or steal when possible.

>“What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.”

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>> No.3311390

>>3311351

Well, okay, let's be honest, nobody knows what the fuck Diogenes would really do in any situation he wasn't actually in since 99% of what we know about him is through a not-particularly-coherent set of anecdotes. I was operating off the anecdotes that describe him as behaving with doglike disregard for societal norms, mostly because it amuses me to think of the response of a filthy, antihumanist old Greek to a magical box that spews forth advertising, pornography, and imageboards at the touch of a button.

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>>3311376

It seems to me that it is almost impossible to make a bad-looking edition of the New Sun. That edition is great, but mother of fuck look at these

>> No.3311410

>>3311391
>mother of fuck look at these
I'm looking, but all I'm seeing is gaudy covers typical of pulp sci-fi/fantasy

>> No.3311414

>>3311410
BoTNS is anything but pulp

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3311417

I've always like this cover. That's a weird way to choose your book though.

>> No.3311418

>>3311414
Your reading comprehension is anything but up-to-scratch

>> No.3311424

http://www.foliosociety.com/
here you go

>> No.3311433

>>3311424
Go to bed, Folio Society

>> No.3311567

>>3311433
no

make me

>> No.3311973

>>3311136
2depp4u

>> No.3311978

>2013
>Judging books by their cover

>> No.3312006

>>3311978
Aesthetics are a moral imperative.

>> No.3312007

>>3311978
>2012
>Still using 2013