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So /lit/ what are some of your favorite book covers?
This is one of my favorites.

>> No.6625295

bump

>> No.6625305

>>6625288
Agreed it's a good cover. Too bad the actual book is lackluster.

>> No.6625308

Hello reddit

>> No.6625316
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>>6625288
wow summer really has started.

>> No.6625321

>>6625305
I agree with you on that.

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>> No.6625352

Is it one of your favorite or have you just heard that it's widely liked

>> No.6625427

Requesting the cover of Gravity's Rainbow with the guy in the pig costume

>> No.6625673
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6625673

Sure I'll post some of my favs

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This one might be my favourite cover of all time.

>> No.6625723
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I don't know which Ulysses I like better, this one...

>> No.6625736
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Or this one.

>> No.6625738

>>6625697
Seconded, I had that until it got stolen from me.

>> No.6625739
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DUDE DICK LMAO

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As much as I like that one, I like the charm of this one.

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I might be biased just by loving the book so damn much, but I love this cover

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>> No.6625775
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This whole series of Tolkein printings had some goat covers

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I have yet to see a Tao Te Ching cover better than this one

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It's the only Borges cover I've seen that seems to give me sort of the same feeling as his writing.

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Ive since grown out of Palahniuk but I still think this is a sweet cover

>> No.6625977

>>6625745
his face is shaded in darkness because Gatsby's actually black

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>> No.6626072

>>6625977
is this an actual theory?

>> No.6626108

>>6626072
Naw. Silhouettes were an artsy thing back then. That cover is just being minimalist like that.

>> No.6626140

>>6626065
Why are all Wordsworth covers such unadulterated shit?

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>>6625673
the font for the title is awful though.

>> No.6626172

>>6625723
I like this one

>> No.6626201

>>6625747
How is this book?

>> No.6626210

>>6625427
I wish that one was real. I would buy it in a heartbeat.

>> No.6626253

>>6625332
Stay gold ponyboy

>> No.6626270

>>6625305
Aside from the fact that it's high school tier, how is it bad? Does /lit/ just hate anything that a 16 year old can comprehend?

>> No.6626299

>>6626270
Yes. I have no idea how /lit is so blissfully unaware of their transparent contrarianism. Earlier today some guy wrote off Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Dickens and received nothing but agreement. Painful.

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>>6625288
I don't even really like GG, but i will freely admit that this cover is possibly the best cover of any book ever.

It is absolutely enchanting. Its mysterious, its contemplative it seems sad, but not in any sort of immediately obvious way.

It is absolutely perfect.

The lights, the rich blue, the eyes the lips, the contumely condescending melancholy,
the hanging over - pervasive, otherworldly - quality.


GOAT of all time.

>> No.6626341

>>6625723
I love this one.

>> No.6626354

>>6626065
Holy shit, a friend of mine have a Wordsworth edition of Ulysses (the blue one) but it's not as ugly as this piece of crap.

>> No.6626533

>>6626316

>contumely

I don't think it means what you think it means.

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>>6625755

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>> No.6627350

>>6626072
From reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/1juix7/gatsby_is_black/

>> No.6627368

>>6625673
Took me like three tries to read that font.

>> No.6628642

>>6626299
That infuriated me too. Fucking idiots.

>> No.6628645

>>6625288
Same

>> No.6628646

>>6625673
Incredible

>> No.6628906

I think F Scott Fitzgerald > DFW

I don't see why this is controversial, and why I'm called a prole for thinking it.

>> No.6628944

>>6626299
>>6626270

/lit/ feels the need to impress some self serving being within themselves...I mean, they are anonymous on here and I highly doubt any of them have any real friends.

So they take on /lit/'s hivemind because they are too lazy to kill themselves.

>> No.6628952

>>6628906
F. Scott > mostly anyone except Joyce as far as the 20th century is concerned.

For some reason /lit/ always rambles on about loving prose but the only criticism they hold for Fitzgerald is his plots, when he is the greatest prose master of the 20th century.

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I have this version of Gatsby. It's pretty cool

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>>6629009

this is mine.

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I like the top left one.

>> No.6629052

>any gatsby cover with a woman/women in it
no thanks jeff

>> No.6629102

>>6629040
bottom right is perfect