Worst book covers thread

>>8210848
>Portrait of As A The Artist Young James Man Joyce
Nothing wrong there.

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>>8210848

Still better than anything recently I recall regarding Joyce's covers but still feels like they are trying to get the John Green/Perks of Being a Wallflower fanbase into reading his works or other indie type wannabes. I do like that edition of Ulysees just for all the historical information about it though and the letters.

The old Penguin one where it is just black with "ULYSSES" in white is probably the best they've ever done. Somehow makes the book feel more imposing.

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/thread

>>8210854
I want another one of those threads

>>8210887
what threads

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>>8210894
not him, but joke covers, I'm assuming.

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>>8210868

>>8210886
I have this copy

>>8210848
I like that the yes in Ulysses is BLACKED. Implying something about 'ol Molly?

>>8210903
come on this is super cool

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>>8210854
I prefer this cover.

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Wordsworth general?

I get that their focus is to make cheap publications of these books but I don't understand why they go out of their way to produce these covers.

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>>8211155
guess he just had enough

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>bad cover thread
>post shops

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>>8211167
I honestly think they want you to pirate the LNs.

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>>8211160
this cover disgusts me

>>8211178
Sorry

>>8211160
>>8211189

why do you care? I'm care about the words inside the book, not the pictures on its cover.

>>8211242
Oh look, the obligatory e-book shill.

>>8210848
>putting ulysses spoilers on the cover
portrait one's fine

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>>8210877
The recent penguin deluxe classics covers are great.

>>8211290
Looks like some Charles Dickens christmas shite

>>8211015
More like blazed

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>>8211295
It's a reference to The Dead, arguably the best story in the set.

Back cover is neat, too.

>>8211242
>>8211248
E-books are exactly why I care about covers. Why would I pay for an ugly physical book when I can download it for free? I still buy physical books, but now I'm much more selective about what I'll put on my shelf.

>>8211283
Ah yes, I love "Portrait of as a the Artist Young James" by Man Joyce.

>>8211147
I actually made that one. Also I tried to put it up on amazon with that cover last year but they blocked it. Oh well.

>>8211385
Well, kudos

>>8210848
It's telling that they never put out an edition of Finnegans Wake.

>>8211385
Bummer. I found the picture on goodreads, if that's any consolation.

>>8210903
this cover is cool as shit

>>8211189
this cover is bland, but not offensive

>>8210886
Saw this copy in Jacob's Ladder. Reading it in the Subway. Somehow makes Tim Robbins less cooler

Pretty much all Penguin Classics. They also have horrible translations. I try to never read Penguin Classics.

>>8212065
Only they have Gilgamesh and Mantiq-ut-Tair. ):

>>8212065
You took the meme too far

Earlier Penguins before they did the new solid black spine were always great

>>8210848
> James MAN Joyce

nice

>>8210903
Vaporwave aesthetic as fuck. It looks like some 90s school math text book.

>>8211160
> not Al Jonson on the cover

Pass

>>8211155
This is great for so many reasons.

>>8211242
I'm a bibliophile and a materialist. Also, checkem.

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bought recently

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>>8212965

>>8212965
lmao this isn't real

>>8210868
>no tortillas depicted

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>>8211108
>>8211602
>>8212756
faggots

>>8212995
Says the gay lord who posts a good book cover.

If you're so gay why don't you shove that book up your asshole or even better may I suggest Herman Melville's classic Moby's HUGE BLACK WANK

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>>8211344
Nigga, that ain't even the worst cover. Not by far.

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>>8212965

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>>8211302
>>8211290
That looks gay

>>8212065
What should I look for instead of penguin classics then?

>>8212965
I don't get it, seems fine

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>>8210848
I generally love NYRB but their covers feel like they try too hard and end up being bland

this just doesn't inspire me to read its contents

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always hated seeing this
also think it's the wrong time period
>>8213320
helen frankenthaler owns

>>8213120
absolutely amazing

>>8210880
I feel like that has it's own sort of aesthetic, whereas OP (for example) is just dogshit.

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>>8210848
Portrait of As A The Artist Young James Man Joyce?

>>8213551
Thank God I'm not the only one. I don't even think it's the wrong time period, the costume looks fairly Regency era-esque to me, but it's just such an irritating painting.

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>>8211189
I think this one is worse desu

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>>8210877
This is the copy I have. I hated it at first, but spent so much time with it that I grew to respect it. It's not an easy cover to like, which fits the book.

Video game tie-in edition of Dante's Inferno.

>>8211537
underrated post

>>8215238
this is fantastic. we're in postmodernity; I'm tired of covers matching their subject matter contextually. abstraction and thematics

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>>8212756

>Vaporwave aesthetic as fuck.

go home /mu/

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>>8215465
What did you say there, my friend?

>>8215877

haha. perfect reply.

okay you can stay.

>>8210848

this is actually one of my favorite cover series; wish he did one for finnegans wake though

>>8213515
>INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR

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Jucky guys, yours bad collections are poor.

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>>8216326

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I actually quite like this one in a naughty way.

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Bit offtopic, does anyone know where to get high quality scans of old scifi novels? I'm absolutely in love with that design.

>>8216326
ayyy I remember these pulp magazines, albeit the horror ones. John Sinclair, I think they were called? Shit was pretty good when I was a pre-teen.

>>8210854
whoa, is there more like this?

>>8210848
These are great, fuck you. The Ulysses cover not only references the "jilted Victorian" atmosphere, but has a cute reference to the book's most famous line.

>>8213120
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>>8216272
It's not in the public domain yet, Joyce's grandson Stephen is an asshole who hates FW, and not enough normies buy it to make a mass print worthwhile.

The last printing was from '99. I'm sure somebody will print it again in a few years.

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My friend owns this and I couldn't get over the fact it looks like an engineering manual

also there's no top margin in the actual book it was pretty gross

The Ulysses cover is tolerable because it has something to do with the book. It's the copy I own.

>>8212995
>>8213025
"A day or two after the trip scott brought his book over. it had a garish dust-jacket and i remember being embarrassed by the violence, bad taste and slippery look of it. it looked the book jacket for a book of bad science fiction. scott told me not to be put off by it, that it had to do with a billboard along a highway in long island that was important in the story. he said he had liked the jacket and now he didn't like it."
>A Moveable Feast- Ernest Hemingway.

>>8212761
>al jonson

>>8213025
trying too hard

>>8212965
pretty bad cover but the book looks beautiful

>>8213320
this might be the worst cover in the thread

>>8213551
>frankenthaler
absolute shit

>>8216354
carey mulligan is (almost) perfect

>>8215450
I agree with you, but this cover is just hurting my eyes. I would like it if the colors were toned down even a little. Looks like a Kidz Bop album.

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This for me takes the cake for the worst ever.

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>>8217102

I have this edition btw. Pic related is a decent Wordsworth cover for a change, which I also own.

>>8210848
>Portrait of as a the artist young james man joyce.

Yeah that one takes it.

>>8215149
Looks like a pair of fucking clown shoes senpai fml smdh lameaf keke

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Not sure if I can beat this one though>>8217102

>>8215278
lmao what the fuck, the publisher clearly hasn't fucking read the book

>>8216941
yes

>>8216978
only with short-ish hair

>>8219808

Or the publisher just doesn't care. They've got edgy teens to market to.

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>>8210848
Currently reading this edition of Ulysses now, actually.

>>8211189
not a bad cover actually

>>8210910
>the current time is 12p-UURGH

>>8213320
Their in the heart of the heart of the country cover is decent. A lot of the others do try way too hard though.

>>8213306
Plath would kill herself all over again.

>>8214759
Is that James McAvoy?

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>>8215197
>posting the inferior version

>>8215197
I own this copy

>>8216354
That movie was a fucking mess in terms of stylization, but it really was well cast. Tobey Maguire and Joel Edgerton in particular were perfect.

>>8216357
What's wrong with this?

Nothing.

>>8215197
I like it

>>8215197
that motherfucking hair

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BIO-BOOSTED ARMOR FRANZ KAFKA

>>8220440
District 9 as fuck.

>>8211290
Not so bad. The art style doesn't exactly fit the tone of Dubliners, but I think it's a decent effort to introduce Joyce to the tumblr generation.

>>8220440
Metamorphosis hentai where?

Sentai when?

>>8217102
that's a big salmon

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>>8210848

>>8215238

looks like leftist education got a hold of this one..

>>8218065
LOLwut

>>8211290
I like it, but I kinda agree with >>8211295
it ought to have a homeless guy or something on it too

>>8212995
>>8216840
That cover doesn't look particularly "violent" or reminiscent of science fiction, though, are you sure this is the dust-cover he was talking about?

>>8220780
Agreed. That one's great.

>>8220559
all I can think of whenever this one is posted is how many kids were bitterly disappointed by this

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I honestly want a cover like this for when I publish my Sonic the Crankhog fanfic.

>>8210903
>>8211189
>>8213320
>>8215149
>>8216357
>>8216650

all good

>>8212965
thats a great cover

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>>8220893
its actually what got me into reading literature

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Botchan has so many great covers but for some god damned reason my library only carried this one

>>8210859
>Young James Man Joyce
lel

>>8218065
Priceless. The bycicle can be one hell of a treasure I suppose.

>>8222029
This genuinely looks like gay fantasy erotica. The title now reads like an innuendo.

>>8221908
this is actually a 10/10 cover

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Arkto's publish some great translated works but butcher them with these cringey covers that scream "edgy and very cheap"

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>>8210880
This guy clearly had a vivid vision for that cover. You have to respect that

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>>8222532

>>8220351
mah nigga

>>8216373
If you know the name of the illustrator you can usually find some on personal websites or larger sizes of the covers.

>>8210872
That's an awesome cover, and I want it.

>>8210880
I can't even tell what is going on in the background back there, like a time machine with bull horns is chasing him through the city?

>>8213320
shit book btw

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>>8213120
jfc It feels like I just made this yesterday

>>8210903

I had confessions of a crap artist with a similar cover. what was going on with book covers in the 80s and 90s

>>8210903
Belongs in GOAT cover thread

>>8210905
underrated

>>8215197
It would have looked even more ridiculous if they had been true to Rasholnikov's wardrobe; he wore a huge fucking tophat in that scene.

>>8215877
>4 hours later
>absolutely a e s t h e t i c

worth it

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It's fitting.

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>>8215238
reminds me of this one

>>8223950
that actually looks pretty sweet.

>>8221908
it's as if that kid in everyone's class who always doodled anime characters but always got the proportions wrong (eyes too big, nose too big, face too wide) got commissioned to provide artwork for this

>>8220440
>>8220473

"franz fookin prawn kafka"
starring sharlto copley as Gregor

>>8222359
>>8222541
>tfw you look in the mirror of erised and see yourself taking the philosopher's stone back to the old country

>>8220559
Looks like a warhammer book

>>8215197
i came here for this one thanks

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does anybody have that fake Brothers Karamazov with the two Disney channel tier guys on it?

>>8225699
>fake

>>8225733
is it not?

>>8225776
https://www.amazon.fr/Brothers-Karamazov-Illustrated-Platinum-English-ebook/dp/B017YB4AJ4

>>8225786
holy hell