What are some of the ugliest redesign covers for classic novels?

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>>9418049

>judging books by covers.

>>9418049
You should have named the thread 'Wordsworth Book Covers', can't go wrong.

>>9418049
Not ugly, just inappropriate.

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This one gets bonus points for having a foreword suggesting that Dante would have approved of the video game.

>>9418067
I've been looking for ages and still can't find Wally.

>>9418409
Imagine being a 14 year old, dressing in black, dyed hair over your eyes, hating everything, drawing art of demons and loving the Dantes Inferno video game. Then you pick up this book when your mom drags you to Barnes and Noble after grocery shopping. You're so excited, the classic journey through hell! All your grim dark feelings of adolescent hatred and pubescent anger validated by a respected, scary, literary classic. Then you get the fucking Divine Comedy lmao.

>paperfags have to deal with shitty cover art
getwiththetimes.epub

>>9419441
>he prefers reading his literature from thousands of tiny light bulbs
I bet you enjoy getting your anus probed as well

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>>9418049
Wordsworth classics literally just take whatever remotely relevant public domain painting or photo they can find and slap it on there

>>9418587
He's in the rocket

>>9418409
What's worse is that it's the Longfellow translation

>>9419557

Yeah but they're £1.99 including delivery here in the UK, so I love them.

>>9418049

>>9418049

So, this is the lowest common denominator right? For an antagonist? Trying to write in an antagonistic organization into my post-ironic short story about the life of an anonymous image board browser and those he finds himself among. Does it goes like this in terms of insults:

At first they strike at MCs beliefs:

>being ethical and righteous
>ignoring petty attempts at inviting anger
>actually adhering to an intended lifestyle
becomes
>"missing out" and "being stuck"
>doing this not because you choose to but because it is all you can do

This being evidently false, the MCs patently decide to do what they do, no one is forcing them.
When the antagonist realizes this, he must force other people to associate MCs with identity politics, easily applied labels and ironically entirely inauthentic (as the organization incentivizes people to regurgitate insults--they are bought and paid for) as it's being propped up by the pillar of funding.

Too /pol/ tier? I think its funny.

>>9418049
But I actually like this.

>>9420007

same here, I love Vintage covers

>>9418324
>not enjoying aesthetically pleasing covers

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>>9420320

Vintage International covers*

>>9418067
this looks like airport novel trash

>>9419557
> Candide and other works

AHAHAHAHAH HOLY SHIT MY SODES

>>9418049
Those orange penguin books have covers so offensively ugly that I'm not even going to find a picture of them. Whose brilliant idea was that? Every book cover should look exactly the same, in the most garish colour possible? It's even more depressing seeing an entire shelf of them.

>>9419137
The Heck part of the comedy is pretty entertaining even for plebs I imagine.

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>>9418409
holy fuck is this for real

>>9419557
true but they're so fucking cheap that you can get a shit ton of classics for peanuts so it's hard to dislike them for it

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This one is especially bad.

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THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN THIS
EVER

>>9421994
You're right, it's downright offensive to the tone of the book, it makes it look like a generic thriller
Is le roach too much to ask on the cover?

>>9422025
I think the turks took offense, hence the variation of the covers

>>9422012
>o fugg she bleedin all over the place

>>9418067

I still have no fucking idea why the choose this shit instead of spamming the Frank Miller one on every possible edition ever

>>9422012
nigga that is just great

>>9419137
> be edgy teen lord of the edge
> wear black, black hair long ponytail, the white kid who is treated nicely by all the black kids so i dont shoot up the school, whoosh just like naruto
> love edgy cool guy games for cool guys such as myself like mass effect dantes infernape and overwatch and halo and and and
> mom lets me go to hot topic we at barne and nobles but books are gay ew
> see dante's inferno want to buy ask mom can i has haha lol xd
> she says ye i read it at home
> next day i found god and now i'm a master of the aenid by virgil never leave home without my crucifix dress'd in bathrobe

>>9422012
desu suits the tone of the book well, raskolnikov literally is that guy lmao mega pussy

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>>9422012
Wordsworth is just completely terrible at covers

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What the hell were they thinking?

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>>9422012
WRONG

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>>9418049
>Lolita
I had the misfortune of reading this edition.

>>9419557
>The Karamazov Brothers
That's the first time I have seen it printed like that. Shouldn't it be The Brothers Karamazov?

>>9422431
"Brothers Karamazov" is slightly archaic today, like saying the Kings Richard (to mean all three). But it has a nicer ring to it.

Cf. The Brothers Grimm vs. the Grimm Brothers

>>9422431
Only because that's what it's been translated as before. I can't think of too many other example where we phrase it like that. The Brothers Grimm.

We don't say The Sisters Brontë.

>>9422402
humanity was a mistake

>>9420327
The plague camouflage with that carpet

>>9422607
>not Camusflage

It was right there, anon.

>>9422607
>carpet

>>9422402
The Illustrated Platinum Edition books are a sight to behold in general. I would like to probe the mind of someone who bought all of them.

>>9419656

>[So out of desperation they]...associate MCs with identity politics, easily applied labels and ironically entirely inauthentic (as the organization incentivizes people to regurgitate insults--they are bought and paid for) as it's being propped up by the pillar of funding.

But how can an antagonist generate any sort of support without proof? Where are the proofs? MCs could just brush that shit off considering it's not even true.

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>>9422286
>>9422012
>>9419557
wtf? I have a bunch of older wordsworth and they're pretty nice with classical paintings printed on the covers.

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>>9422652
holy fucking kek, these are so bad
how had i not heard of this? are these ironically bad? or are just they that shit?

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>>9422652
This isn't okay

>>9422402
no way this is real

>>9420330
still better than OWC desu

>>9419557
The Finnegans Wake cover ain't bad tho desu.

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>>9422402
I can't belive this is actually real

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Who the fuck designed these

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>>9423155

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>>9423203
implying these aren't the definitive versions

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>>9423227
seriously though, I had never wanted to read Alice in Wonderland until I saw Sison's illustrations

>>9423203
>>9423227
>>9423265
Actually kinda cute desu. Who publishes these? And Carroll himself had rorita-compurreksu so the style isn't that out of place.

>>9418067
I have Crying of Lot 49 with this exact same shit on the cover

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>>9422698
Yeah the old ones are good to go

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>>9422402

>>9422612
SERIOUSLY lol

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>>9422652
Jesus fucking Christ.

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At first I thought it was fake but I was sorely mistaken

>>9418067
The Where's Waldo cover editions often have blurry text.

Overall they're impressively bad editions; they manage to simultaneously punt on aesthetics and content

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>>9422652
It looks like the Black Lagoon manga or something. I kind of like it desu

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>>9422652
this one isn't too bad
I mean, at least it kind of conveys the general theme of the Iliad

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>uncle tom's cabin is a hut in Africa
ABSOLUTE MADMEN

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>Three different fonts
>Random blurb takes up a third of the cover
>The title itself is in two different fonts for no reason whatsoever

I maintain that whoever designed this cover should be dragged into the street and shot.

>>9422414
At least it doesn’t scream I am not a paedophile i am a pederast.

>>9426236
Wow. This cover would put me off reading the book. It's hard to look at

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>>9422012
Return to your seats, plebs.

>>9422698
Well, classical paintings are public domain too. All the new covers are lacking in is taste

>>9427089
You know we can tell that's glued on, right?

>>9427089
I...I don't believe you

>>9426236
Imagine the entire book written in that bottom font.

>>9426209
Kek
>>9426201
Except for the orcs, and how all the fighting stops when it gets dark

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>>9427317
>what do we do with the books about slavery?
>just, like put a black guy on the cover

>>9426209

It's not a hut in Africa it's an African in hut.

>>9427113
Fuck, you've truly spiked the guns of my brilliant gambit. Please return to fighting crime in 1800s England and leave me this tiny corner of the internet for my evil deeds.

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>>9419557
Death of Ivan Ilyich is the worst cover by far

>>9418049
i actually like that senpai, gives me a good late 80s early 90s vibe

>>9424898
So I've heard. Luckily the text in my version is fine, though.

>>9420330
Its fucking hilarious.

>>9420343
I don't mind those editions at all, they're pretty cheap, and they're good paperbacks

I agree though that they aren't very pleasant to see a whole shelf of though

>>9418409
>16 page full-color insert
tfw you will never have Dante's sublime poetry be cruelly interrupted by some obscene depiction of a meathead with a giant scythe slaughtering demons

>>9422328
I suspected this was just ridiculous enough to be real and modern library parodies are uncommon, and what the fuck it actually is

>>9426209
as if they weren't based enough already!

>>9422328
I own it cover is based what are you talking about?

>>9426234
me on the left

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not really terrible, but shit compared to the one with the upside down cartoon head

>>9418409
This makes me way angrier than it should.

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wew lad

>>9427086
it looks like how the book reads

>>9423203
>>9423227
>>9423265
>>9423315
ive been wanting this forever and finally bought it today

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Good cover coming through

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>>9428900
It makes you think

>>9419137
Atleast it justifies stalking the girl he likes.

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>>9422652
o shit

>>9429266
>it's an abstract kind of feel

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>let's make it so it looks like the Dan Brown book

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Whoops

>>9419557
>Count of Monte Cristo looks like an Anne Rice novel
>Odyssey is trashy fantasy
>Brothers Karamazov is a gay romance novel
>Sticker dude had mercy on Dr Jekyll

>>9428900
Lewd

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>>9418067

>tfw this is my edition

>>9419557

Fuck me, why even bother with a cover if it's going to be this half-assed.

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>>9427317
>>9427323

Holy shit that's totally what they did.

>>9428360
Agreed, it makes the novel look more pulpier and less misanthropic psycho-sexual.

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>>9426236
> tfw this is the only edition available to us in the UK
> the cover is similar for The Road, Suttree, Outer Dark and anything that isn't The Border Trilogy

I still bought it.

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>>9426201
> The Illiad by Homer
> greek classic
> cover has vikings

Who the fuck is this publisher

>>9419557
The Tempest cover is a pretty aesthetic though..

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my fav

>>9430002
Me too, I bought it years ago when I didn't know any better

>>9419557
I honestly don't mind the editions that are public domain paintings with a vague connection to the book.

It's when they photoshop stock images into period clothing for a non-existent budget made-for-TV promotional image that it gets embarassing.

>>9430319
i bought it because i couldn't find a cheaper one

>>9424701
That is hilarious.

>>9430291
I wish this was real. Wordsworth should have their own cover design contest

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>>9418049
Behold

>>9430674
lol

>>9422414
Is the annotated Lolita good? I don't care about the cover

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>>9423265
disney alice looks better imo

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>>9430806
dweeb

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Some of the dial press Vonnegut cover are pretty lame

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>>9418049

>>9432716
I like these. They're KV's illustrations, and the nice stand-out colors make their trim formfactor nice to look at on a shelf once you've read them. I have a tattoo of the snake from the Galapagos cover.

>>9419630
>>9421992
>tfw can't get cheap classics in America

>>9418409
This is fine, it's a bait-and-switch. The entire game was only a means of introducing kids to the Comedy.

>>9432772
this

god damn what a fucking travesty

>>9423180
wat

>>9433850
is that that nigga from Gossip Girl

>>9427317
This looks like some trashlit you could find for 0.99. don't they know old books need to look old?
>>9426171
kek

>>9424701
nah you are fucking with me. This looks like some M/M romance cover. it can't be real

>>9428867
>>9421977
>>9418409
This was a marketing plot by EA to let people know the game by getting mad about the cover u dinguses.
They also paid protestors to to protest against satanism in several places to promote the game. And look at it, it fucking worked, you are talking about it.

>>9418409 >>9422012 >>9422703 >>9422766
>>9426209 >>9428900 >>9429015
I would buy every single one of these simply because they're hilarious

>>9418067
This is the cheapest edition of Gravity's Rainbow around here, which is why I still haven't read the book. I know I'm being terribly shallow but I just can't fucking bring myself to order a cover like that.

I would also like to own a copy of Lolita but that one really needs a tasteful cover and so far I haven't found one for a reasonable price. So many of them are horrible.

>>9426236
This one is actually nice. Reading the cover is exactly like reading the book. They really knew what they were doing there.

>>9429524
FUCK

>>9430803
Yes it is

wordworth covers are tenth level trolls, because i honestly could not buy the master and margarita based on its cover because all i could think was "they went beyond full retard with the licensed MSPaint clip art collection this time", until finally i caved and found out the book cover is fucking perfect and whoever commissioned that one is too good at his job.

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>>9418324
Ayyy

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this little women image isn't awful, but it isn't big enough to fit the cover of the book. instead of picking a new image, they just stretched it. the pixelation is super visible if you zoom in a bit

>>9422402
w-what

>>9434644
That GR also has numerous typos, so definitely wouldn't recommend

>>9422402
everytime

>>9422402

I must know what the illustrations are like.

>>9435394
That's fucking weird man.

>>9433850
>>9433746
i really fucking hate the penguin deluxe series