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>Want The Recognitions
>Really like the Penguin edition with the abstract art on the cover
>Order that exact edition off Amazon
>comes in the mail
>I get this shit

Fucking horrendous

>> No.3731433

>Want to buy Language, Truth, and Logic by Ayer
>Edition published in America is by Dover
>Fuck that I want to the Penguin one
>Specifically order a used copy of the Penguin edition
>Get package in the mail
>It's the Dover edition

>> No.3731440

>>3731419
That cover is fine. Honestly abstract art covers on books are the absolute worst 90% of the time. I wish all publishers would just slap nice classical paintings on the cover instead of trying to be 'modern' or whatever the hell they're thinking.

>> No.3731454

>>3731440
what painting is it?

All I see is a zoomed-in ugly fucking caveman

>> No.3731459
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>>3731419
What, this one? This shit looks pretty awful to me. At first I thought you meant "abstract" in the sense that Pevear/Volokhonsky translations have an "abstract" book cover design. I find geometric figures and the like to be pretty pleasant to look at.

>>3731440
I don't know, I'm a fan of simple covers. Sometimes the classical paintings are nice, but most of the time I don't think so.

>> No.3731471

>>3731459
abstract art, I mean, so therefore the picture you are showing would be the one I am talking about

I just think it compliments the book a lot, from what I know about it. Better than this fucking piece of shit

>> No.3731472

>>3731419

>whenever you look at this cover you will picture a retard shitting himself and screaming "DDDUUURRR UHH OHHH I MADE OOPSIE"

>> No.3731485

>>3731419
That's the Portinari Altarpiece you cretin, have respect for real art.

>>3731454
That's Hugo van der Goes, the artist, portraying himself as one of the ugly, somewhat goofy shepherds who are stricken by the birth of Christ. It is particularly relevant because it serves as a sort of precursor to the ideas of "instant revelation" attainable by anyone as was seen a few years after its painting, in the Protestant Reformation. I don't know if that plays into the novel at all because I haven't read it but that's what it is.

a little better than abstract art, I think

>> No.3731506

>>3731472
how old are you?

>>3731485
Well thanks for that, I appreciate it more know, but I think it would be nice if the cover wasn't so zoomed in, especially on a face like that..

>> No.3731508

>>3731506
more now*

>> No.3731509

>>3731485
I guess also wikipedia says it's organized like a in three parts "like a triptych," which is pretty relevant because the Portinari Altarpiece is a triptych?

>> No.3731526

>>3731506
I agree that it doesn't really help someone who isn't an art historian, which is a pretty shitty way to design a novel cover. I definitely think it'd be a lot better if they showed more of the work, as you said, because even van der Goes didn't want you to just focus on this oaf.

I do like my Penguin Classics of Juvenal's satires, though, it has a fresco of some foppish Roman copping a generous feel of some naked chick's boob.

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3731531

lol i prefer this cover

>> No.3731576

>>3731471
B-but you haven't read it yet...
I like your cover better than the penguin one, which is what I read it in. The penguin one maybe is more evocative of the NYC segments of the book, that kind of busy urban drift, but that's really a fairly small portion of the book...the real heart of it is more to do with that look of horror at transfixed insight on the face of the man on your cover.

>> No.3731585

I laughed for a good 5 minutes. My God that's an ugly cover. I still can't stop laughing, oh my sides. My poor sides.

>> No.3731595
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I have this one. It's a nice edition.

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>>3731419
Same thing happened to me and I was happy.

That cover is closer to what the book is about.

Even though I would have used this picture that always came to my mind when he was talking about his mother.

>> No.3731612

>>3731419
>>3731419
That is abhorrent

steal a copy from the library and replace it with your one and proceed to read a truly tremendous novel

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Bad cover thread?

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>>3731618
Why not.

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>>3731618
How come penguin can pick REALLY good covers and then just comes out with shit like this

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This has to be one of the worst I've seen recently. The horror's all in the words but it spreads from them and pervades the entire cover...that glow around the letters, that alignment with the line of the window, the typeface itself... blegh.. it's sad because the typeface along the spine is great...if they'd just deleted the titling from the cover and used only the spine's everything would be fine.

>> No.3731669

>every norton critical edition cover

>> No.3731742
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tape aside, I'm not really sure what to think

>> No.3731758

>>3731742
I don't mind that one. At least the color scheme and font are consistent. The red font looks kinda glossy, which could change my opinion, if I could see the book in person

>> No.3731780

>>3731758
it looked fine when I bought it, it just didn't hold up to going back and forth to school I guess. I also took it hunting and fishing with me. That might have done it.

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Thank god it was only 25¢.

It literally is 2edgy4u

>> No.3731792
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>>3731788
Some of those Modern Library covers are just awful. Pic related.

>> No.3731796

>>3731788
What in God's name.

>> No.3731800

>>3731788
How is that real

>> No.3731804

>>3731792
It's funny because Mill is actually British.

>> No.3731812

>>3731804
I know. That's why it's so awful. Thankfully the Oxford World Classics volume of his writings exists. I couldn't bring myself to buy that shit with an American flag on it.

>> No.3731813
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>>3731792
I like this one

>> No.3731816

>>3731812
So this is how the Pollocks feel when Brits try to claim Joseph Conrad.

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>>3731788
Why do these covers exist

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>>3731813
The Nietzsche one is good too.

>>3731816
I'm actually American.

>> No.3731833

>>3731819
ahhhhahaaha

>> No.3731836
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3731836

I've always had a burning hatred for this nineties piece of shit cover of Ulysses. It's usually the only one at the bookstore, too, so I've just put off buying Ulysses.

>> No.3731841

>>3731832
Damn, that looks awesome

>>3731836
Fucking atrocious

>> No.3731850

>>3731819
Oh god, why.

It's so bad.

>> No.3731851

>>3731819
what in gods name

>> No.3731854

>>3731788
>>3731792
>>3731819
Jesus H. Fuck

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>>3731819
It's real. I had to see it for myself.

http://amzn.com/0812969901

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>>3731867
I hate the book, but by God.

>> No.3731875

>>3731867
Is that malcolm's brother?

>> No.3731877

>>3731867
Oh, God.

This shit is just silly.

>> No.3731879
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3731879

All of the modern library proust covers look like they googled "pillow" or "girl" and picked the most fruity or ugly one they could find

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hahaha

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3731896

an autobiography of their cover designer

>> No.3731897

>>3731888
Modern library confirmed for Worst Paperback Design ever

>> No.3731899

>>3731896
I actually like that one

I don't get what you said though

>> No.3731901

>>3731867
laughed hard
>dawson's moor

>> No.3731904

>>3731896
that's not too bad
can't go wrong with an old as balls oil painting

>> No.3731915

>>3731788
HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS ACTUALLY EXISTS

GOOGLE IT

HOW

>> No.3731918

>>3731854
>>3731819
>>3731800
>>3731796
>>3731792
>>3731915
it really is a fantastic cover
i might have to order it just for that

>> No.3731923

>>3731915
>HOW

They're obviously trying to trick vapid, media-obsessed twats into buying their books. I don't know how they hope to benefit by doing that, though. It's not like some tween is going to buy the book based on the cover and read past the first two pages.

>> No.3731926

>>3731918
You are one tricky trickster

>> No.3731929

>>3731926
hm?

>> No.3731931

>>3731419

I hate when I get something from amazon/abebooks and it's not what I ordered (especially when it's a hardcover missing the dust jacket). I have the edition that you got in the mail and like it more than the edition you wanted, but then again it really doesn't matter, what's important is the text. Having said that, I'm still hunting for the first edition hardcover copy. One day I'll get there.

More importantly, this is a fantastic novel, IMO one of the best in the past 60 years. You'll love Gaddis, and after this read JR (which might be the better novel, and is hilarious). I envy you for reading this for the first time.
Enjoy!

>> No.3731933

I honestly don't mind Modern Library paperbacks. They're generally really high quality, compared to most other paperbacks.

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>>3731419

>> No.3731937

>>3731899
calling the cover designer an idiot

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>>3731419
i've got that version and the version in my pic
i like them both
i think i like the first edition cover the best, though

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>>3731934
Since we're mocking them, just look at this turd of a cover. It looks like a goddamn Q-Bert game.

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>>3731947
lol

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>>3731957

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do i win

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>> No.3732073

>>3731957
top lel