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Anonymous Tue Nov 25 21:34:44 2014 No.5776597 [Reply] [Original]

>you can't judge a book by it's cover
Give me even one example where the book was great and had a horrible cover

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 25 21:36:15 2014 No.5776600 >no replies yeah that's what I fucking though

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 25 21:37:05 2014 No.5776602 File: 744 KB, 762x1167, El_ingenioso_hidalgo_don_Quijote_de_la_Mancha.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 25 21:37:09 2014 No.5776603 File: 31 KB, 230x368, 9781840224306_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5776597

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 25 21:37:18 2014 No.5776604 File: 68 KB, 326x500, blood_meridian.large.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 25 21:38:16 2014 No.5776606 >>5776603 every thread

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 25 21:38:36 2014 No.5776608 >>5776603 /thread

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 25 21:38:47 2014 No.5776609 the entire wordsworth classic series, which is 400 some books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 25 21:39:36 2014 No.5776611 File: 21 KB, 320x414, rundbg9.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5776597

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 25 21:41:09 2014 No.5776615 wow the OP is getting BTFO right now. he should probably kill himself

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 25 21:41:17 2014 No.5776616 >>5776611 I'd read it

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 25 21:42:18 2014 No.5776624 File: 169 KB, 820x1176, steve fuentes.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 25 22:23:49 2014 No.5776766 File: 12 KB, 300x300, airlinesonic.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not so much the book cover as so much the title. Just look at this horrific title... and it's such an amazing historical account of the software industry as well.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 25 22:24:50 2014 No.5776769 >>5776603 put this shit in a museum. this is a damn masterpiece

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 25 22:26:06 2014 No.5776774 >>5776766 That's a goddamn brilliant title. it mentions the two most important software developments

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 25 22:26:36 2014 No.5776777 >>5776602 >bad cover leave

Anonymous Tue Nov 25 22:31:00 2014 No.5776790

>>5776774
It's actually really fucking stupid because the book has very little to do with sonic the hedgehog (but substantially with airline reservations). It's just a fucking dumb title in general. When you see that, you're not going to think this is a good literature review for the software industry. This is a very academic work and it sounds like some fucking clickbait garbage.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 26 06:15:23 2014 No.5777982 File: 17 KB, 231x346, download.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The book itself was alright, it was a fairly standard intro textbook. But that damn cover.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 26 16:06:12 2014 No.5779609 Have you considered the fact that many books have multiple covers? Is the same book better or worse because of a different cover?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 26 16:13:25 2014 No.5779639 File: 81 KB, 350x563, dostojevskij-fjodor-brott-och-straff.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5776603 Here's the Swedish cover.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 26 16:25:41 2014 No.5779699 >>5779609 Yes and yes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 26 16:47:28 2014 No.5779792 >>5779639 I kind of like it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 26 16:50:32 2014 No.5779805 >>5779639 >>5776603 Wow, I honestly might not have read these if they had these covers

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 26 16:52:00 2014 No.5779808 >>5779639 lol 19th century clip art

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 26 17:01:01 2014 No.5779844 File: 14 KB, 200x323, stranger-albert-camus-paperback-cover-art.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Yep.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 01:30:53 2014 No.5781544 >>5779844 Hahaha what

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 01:33:51 2014 No.5781553 >>5776611 Lactation is probably the overall best fetish imo

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 01:41:26 2014 No.5781576 >>5779844 I actually own this version. Not sure how much worse you can get.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 01:42:23 2014 No.5781577 >reading masterpieces in English Into the trash you go, /lit/

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 01:48:33 2014 No.5781588 >>5781577 shits on the floor and stomps on it with a rubber boot Heh, better luck next time, kid...

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 01:49:45 2014 No.5781592 >>5776603 awful book

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 01:51:33 2014 No.5781597 File: 33 KB, 485x364, Ulysses 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5776600 >/lit/ >no replies in two minutes >hurrr durrr das wut i tought

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 01:54:12 2014 No.5781604 File: 79 KB, 280x367, How to make plebs mad, the novel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 02:05:02 2014 No.5781632 >>5781592 muh b8

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 02:06:13 2014 No.5781635 >>5781604 >great book ayy

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 02:08:57 2014 No.5781641 >>5781635 >b-b-but muh dogmati- I mean dialectical materialism

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 02:16:55 2014 No.5781663 >>5781604 How's age 14 treating you?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 02:20:08 2014 No.5781676 >>5781663 It's eating my asshole out

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 02:24:52 2014 No.5781695 >>5781676 is this a new meme with the thai sex slave?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 02:25:31 2014 No.5781698 >>5781695 It just may be, buddy

Anonymous Thu Nov 27 02:28:33 2014 No.5781708

>>5776597
Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke consistently has pretty terrible covers and it's a damn fine book.

There's an entry here for Infinite Jest whose cover the author didn't like ("but there's no meteorology in the book") but I'm sure someone will shat on that. Derp.

Some of the covers for V. by Pynchon aren't my favorite and many of the early Delillo novel covers aren't great but those novels (Rattner Star, Great Jones Street, Americana, etc.) are solid.

I'm sure there are more.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 27 02:44:06 2014 No.5781752 >>5779639 this cover is based as fuck. its just a collage of things that are in the book, its amazing

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