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5037846 No.5037846 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any more pleasing book covers than the SF Masterworks series?

>> No.5037851

Some Folio Society covers are amazing.

>> No.5037863
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>>5037846

I like how they look on the shelf, pic related is not mine but it looks similar

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>>5037851
I have Reformation: Europe's House Divided as released by the Folio Society.

I had like £400 worth of university granted money for history books so I thought I'd treat myself.

It looks nice, but IDK.

Folio Society books are incredibly expensive most of the time.

I like SF Masterworks because they look nice and are usually around the £10 mark.

>> No.5037880

Never heard of this series, is this a Britfag thing?

I agree, they look nice all lined up like that. Or maybe I'm just OCD

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>>5037867
i like lips.

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>>5037880
SF Masterworks is run by Gollancz, who I believe only operate within the UK, though they've got a lot of recognition this year for their Sci Fi series.

They do this thing where they have completely brutalist covers which I think they look nice, though that's only my opinion.

>> No.5037947

>>5037887
The Handmaid Stale

Awful typography. The apostrophe just doesn't help there.

>> No.5038048
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5038048

Except for the re-releases of past covers which made them look sickly.

>> No.5038387
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5038387

You guys forgot the absolute best.

>> No.5038403

>>5038048
I actually don't mind these. I kinda like how bright and garish they are.

>> No.5038444
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>>5037846
I really love the cover of this book
>But the story is utter shit
>>its like finding the masturbation fantasy notebook of your creepy brother in law
>>>like, its full of shit that would never happen in a million years ever
And right when you're like so sure that it's going to start getting good, it doesn't

>I still love Andrew Vachss
I think this one was bad because it's his first book and he didn't know what he was doing, like a silly virgin fumbling in the dark trying to figure out how to unhook a bra but his other works are much better

Shella is probably my favorite book ever.

>> No.5038675
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5038675

SF Masterworks covers are the best.

>> No.5038714

>>5038387
and then the book was pretty meh

>and here's this planet which shows one aspect of mankind I don't like, look at them destryoing themselves
>and here's another planet showing one aspect I dislike, look at all these people dying

I guess it's like this since it's so old

>> No.5038859

>>5038675
i demand more

>> No.5039047

>>5038444
>Shella is probably my favorite book ever.

Shella is the only Vachss book I've read, but one scene really stuck with me - when the bully does his thing of selecting a boy (a different one each time) to buy a chocolate bar then melt it on the radiator, so he can use it for lube when sodomizing them. Then the narrator's solution when he gets selected to buy a chocolate bar.

>> No.5039073

>>5038675

I have that one. :3

>> No.5039083

>>5037896
thats how they did their books in the 40s/50s
penguin did the orange covers

both have brought them back for a classics imprint line

>> No.5039095
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5039095

The Discworld series, while it was still being done by Kirby.

>> No.5039205

>>5039095
i like the new artist too.

it's just 2 different cups of tea i guess

>> No.5039362

>>5039205
The new artist is okay. The covers are usually less imaginative though.

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I was 14 when I chose to read this book mainly because of its cover.

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>>5038048
gotta go with this

>> No.5042208

>>5042199
That's a terrible cover.

Most of these are really terrible covers.

Including the OP's copy of Dune. Y'all got NO aesthetic sense.

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>>5042208
fuck off

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>> No.5042295

>>5042221

>folio_society_for_poor_people.jpg

>> No.5042298

>>5042221
I have the odyssey and the Poe ones

>> No.5042321

>>5042298
Are they nice to read? Do they smell good?