What is the worst book cover of all time? Hard mode: No Wordsworth

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>>9640377

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wtf i thought modern library was supposed to be good

>>9640402
Holy fucking shit that's frightfully demonic

>>9640534
These aren't real:

>>9640402
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>>9640550
Fuck off, the Lermontov one is on amazon

>>9640552
Wow that cover is so dogshit I thought it was fake. My apologies.

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>>9640377

>>9640568
Unironically learn how to read.

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>>9640550
the brothers karamazov one is real too

>>9640550
The second one is real.

>>9640591
wtF??? you mother fucking bastard


kill yourself you fucking brown skinned indian. I hate you. I need you to know so. I havent always but as of today I hate you.

>>9640591
>>9640598
Between that revelation and that Don Quixote cover, I'm killing myself now.

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what were they thinking?

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>>9640982
lol

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This is such a gay fucking cover, and I have seen it defended on /lit/ multiple times.

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>tfw the American version has a great cover but this shite in the only version available in Britain

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>>9641089
id be interested to see how people defend that

>>9641089

I personally don't mind it. Sort of juvenile, but it's a nice piece and it suits the theme of the story.

>>9641100
I'm fine with these covers but I don't know why they haven't done a version of that decent GR vintage cover for each of his books

>>9641074
these are all made by someone who had Wikipedia tier knowledge of the book, and then approved by someone who had Wikipedia tier knowledge of the book

>>9641236
it just looks so cartoony and juvenile when Portrait is the definition of austere, elegant prose (by the latter half at least)

>>9641236
>it's a nice piece
for an undergrad graphic design student maybe

>>9640508

That's cool af.

>>9640564
>posts in a thread about shitty covers
>why are there so many shitty covers, they must be fake

>>9640377
what if its actually
-the jealous farmer after the murder and not werther?
-or the nutcase who cant find flowers?
-capturing the unironic sentimentality of rousseaunism?
the cover designer did nothing wrong

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>>9641074
>that picture of Dorian Grey

Comedy gold

>>9640982
I actually appreciate how insincere this cover is. I think that Voltaire would have liked it.

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i hope nobody tries to defend this

>>9641317
>introduced by marshall berman
wew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matvei_Berman

>>9640589
I'm playing on normal mode, faggot.

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>>9641074
Last two scare the shit out of me. Dracula is decenent, though.

>>9641089
That cringy homage to that Capar David paiting...

>>9641295
Painting is actually good. It's akin to Soviet era propaganda, and it fits the poem. Lame fonts and too much white space is bad, but that's often collections fault.

>>9641236
it's just a Reddit-tier knockoff of the painting "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog"

>>9641317
>How can we make communism look hip and trendy to kids?
I wonder who could be behind this.

>>9641295
That's Blake you trogolodyte

>>9641074
I kinda like the Wuthering Heights cover, I think because it reminds me of a Blythe doll

>>9641274
Cool but not really professional looking and kinda distasteful. Almost like im about to read some edgy manga some 15year old has written. All im saying is it's kinda deviant art tier.
>/ic/ has changed my ways of viewing art

>>9641295
Dude, you're joking right?

>>9641074
These remind me of Disney movie posters.

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>Now a major motion picture!

>>9640508
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>>9641503
"We need to capture the r/books market"

>>9641089
The cartoonish font and cartoonish figure standing on the cliff ruins it.

If it was a normal bookcover font, and if the figure was removed, the colors in it and whole scene would look quite nice and alluring.

>>9641512

Yeah I can't really disagree with you. I like the thing but it doesn't fit the novel for sure.

>>9641524
But the point of the figure is to make a reference to that one painting (can't remember any names). Not justifying it tho

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>>9641532
"The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" - Caspar David Freidrich

>>9641555
Yup...was about to post it

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>>9641520
This one felt strangely inappropriate.

>>9640982
I lile this

>>9641317
there's no way that's real

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>>9641376
How many layers of irony are we operating on here?

>>9641590
You can still buy it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143106260

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What the hell is this

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>>9641603
Get 'em while they're hot!

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Was kind of annoyed when I received this edition

>>9640568
>WE WUZ STRANDED N SHIEEEEEEET

>>9641669
that is pretty awful compared to most other editions of Steppenwolf, but not terrible.

>>9641608

Someone liked the description of the motel sign apparently. Also, Oedipa is more attractive than that and (even though she may have been described otherwise) a brunette, in my mind.

>>9641532
It's mainly about the part where Dedalus is walking on the beach at sunset decides to become an artist.

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every time

>>9641317
Hey, edgy adolescents are the targeted audience of the book

>>9641512
But that kid looks hot

>>9641603
t. Bourgeois capitalist

>>9640982
>>9641295
People need to stop posting Oxford World's Classics. They use existing paintings, often lesser known classics by otherwise famous masters. They're trying to be challenging and playful, casting a unique perspective on the work, while being authentic to the period/themes. In other words, they're being lit, not /lit/. They're creating and fighting the assumptions of "classics", not lazily meming. Respect it.

It's not in any way equivalent to the other covers which are original shitty art from the 2010s to make the works accessible to the Tumblr generation. Those should not be lumped in with what OWC are doing.

>>9641619
This is awesome and actually makes me want to read LRH. Am I a scientist /lit/?

>>9641687
I always imagined Oedipa as black. I mean, her name's Oedipa and she's with a guy named Mucho.

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>>9641520
It's even more insulting when the movie is absolute blood stool

>>9640377
Wow. I find the modern library classic designs to be great but they chose a very idiotic image for this one.

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>>9641274
Idk man, I'm just saying if I had to pick between that book cover I posted and one like this pic related, I wouldn't even think twice. Like this >>9641512 guy said, that cover does not make me feel like I'm going to read a book with actual merit.

>>9641669
Yeah I'd honestly rather have my furry hardcover than a retro cover with clips from the film. Like honestly, if those stills weren't there I think it'd be a great cover.

>>9642254
i have that version unfortunately

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>>9642414
Jesus Christ, I think the one thing this thread has shown is that the person who works at Pengiun who has been doing the classics artwork is a fucking idiot.

>>9641231
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>>9641089

I mean for fucks sake.

>>9641089
It's not so bad, it actually fits with Tove Jansson's other artwork pretty well
>Actually read the title
Oh, oh shit

>>9641619
This cover accurately depicts the events of the book, although the guy in the fedora is supposed to be ugly.

>>9642492
Probably, unironically, a young progressive hired to liven up the classic image with a 'modern, inviting new look'. Modern, inviting and new all in italics.

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Daily reminder that this exists

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>>9641503
This one especially pisses me off every time I see it in bookstores. It looks straight up disneyfied, like it's going to be the cover of some lighthearted yet edgy graphic novel

Also, my captcha for this post

>>9641074
these look cute desu

>>9641352
>That cringy homage to that Capar David paiting...
I'm not an art history major, I'm a READER. I don't give a fuck about paintings, sculptures or museums unless it's the life-like wax statue of William fuckin' Wordsworth at Westminster. Oh and newsflash faggot, nobody gives a shit about Iron Maiden's /lit/ lyrics either more than they give a shit about Adrian Smith's R I F F S. Pretentious faggots like you is why we have half-naked shotas on roughly half of all metafiction releases. Another thing that gets my panties in a twist is that disgusting air of smugness that clouds you. "hurr if you read more books that is correlated to your knowledge of paintings hurr." Fuck off with that weak shit cunt, only slutty French women give two shits about art and even then they just nod their nod and act interested as you ramble on about three-point perspective while their mouths water at the thought of cheese-encrusted chodes

Fuck off and die you piece of shit

>>9642623
>implying that Moz isnt a national treasure

Baka desu

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this shit

>>9641503
>that cross with the suppedaneum
christ didn't die for this

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>>9641703
cara de verga :v

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How his this not been posted yet

>>9641227
Why would they use that style to draw figures? You would think they would choose a style more fitting for the period

>>9640377
this is the best /lit/ humor thread I've seen in ages. Thank you various anons I'll contribute if I find something

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>>9640377
I actually own this edition. At least the text is completely intact.

>>9641317
Holy fuck that cover suits the book perfectly. Absolute shit.

>>9641588
You just don't put a lovecraft monster on the cover that is sacrilege.

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>>9641608
Better than the italian editions.

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>>9643770
And the list goes on

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>>9642947
True, except for those several pages long paragraphs going into detail about her pantys which happened to be visible 22 times in the book.

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>>9640377
This..

I also especially hate those fucking Pynchon covers that are printed currently, with the thousands of little images that are just the same thing reprinted over and over that doesn't even mesh together. Trash.

>>9641558
Harry Mulisch his report on Eichmann was better anyway desu (Case 40/61)

>>9643743

This one isn't nearly as bad as the other Penguin Deluxe editions so far

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nobody here would defend this, right?
http://www.rockpaperbooks.com/

>>9643779
Those were a nice touch. I mean, how else will they get the pedophiles and /a/ crowd to read it?

>>9643851
Fair enough but it still looks way too much like a comic/graphic novel.

>>9642842
>be 17 edge lord
>read Dante's Inferno before playing the game
>become less edgy

>>9642777
Lmao, ur dum as fuck

>>9643770
A fucking trumpet

>>9643773
A livello di design questa è fuoco puro, rappresenta perfettamente l'eclettica estetica post-sesantottina.

>>9640551
Most of his covers in the Anglosphere are trash desu

>>9643925
I've always considered that fucking trumpet a phallic symbol

>>9643770
ahem

BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP

>>9642947
Niqqa that is kawaii af

>>9641503
Looks like Dr. Seuss.

>>9640568
Shit cover, good book, famalam

>>9640568
I don't remember a parrot. I think this cover isn't entirely accurate

>>9642343
Yeah, the stills completely ruin it for me

>>9642588
Is that real and where can I buy it?

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I can never tell if this is a joke or not

>>9641619
Is that a scoped double barrel?

>>9643779
that was actually restoring the complete original manuscript as intended by Lewis Carroll

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>>9642947
Cute Alice

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>>9642947
there's also this

>>9641089
its a good painting but bad bookcover

>>9642947
Are you implying this isn't better than the old artwork?

Give me one (1) reason why I shouldn't link every single book cover in this thread in one post and give it my own personal rating.

>>9646216
The fear of failure

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>>9646318
(cont.)
I hope you know that you asked for this. You begged for this on your knees and you will take it and love it.
>>9643782
Boring.

That concludes my epic book review! I'll see you guys back on /r/books, my reddit screenname is /u/Fwuck_Dwumpf, make sure to upvote, comment and subscribe!

>>9646318
holy fuck dont reply to every post u fucken mong

>>9646318
your opinions are terrible and you should leave this board.

>"crappy nu-male reddit font"
>"weird"
>likes anime
>actually responded to every picture giving shitty opinions
>thinks that Iliad cover is passable

>>9641700
I actually laughed out loud

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>>9643887
Holy fuck did J.J. Abrams design that book cover?

>>9646318
How embarrassing

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>>9641520
>>9641520
I unironically refused to buy I, Robot at the bookstore because the only copy had Will Smith on it

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>>9646318
>lol
>nu anything
>reddit
>This is the single shittiest cover in the entire thread, it is a fucking abomination and anyone who likes it needs to be killed
>Christ
>edgy
>....
>cringe
>god bless
>tumblr

>>9641555
One of my history books used this as a cover and my shit professor used a whole period to talk about the visual metaphor

>>9646318
your opinions are neither insightful, nor are they humorous whomst've told you that this was an acceptable post?

>>9646867
>using whomst've

>>9647088
>not using whomst've
absoulutivist'vly plebe

>>9642947
w2c?

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>>9640377
http://liartownusa.tumblr.com/

>>9647216
http://liartownusa.tumblr.com/post/154010923540/spanielson-classics-of-literature-collection

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>>9640402
looks like a bad internet advertisement

>>9640602
that looks nothing like raskautistic in the book

>>9640602
>No Wordsworth classics

>>9643935
È bella. Inoltre a me le americane stile dov'è waldo piaciono

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When you're an engineering student and you want to sneak read in class

>>9644258
He kept a bird in a cage as well as other animals and spoke to them as companions, especially the bird IIRC. It has been 5 years since I read it though.

>>9646767

I hate it when they reissue a book with images from the movie version. I refuse to buy any of those.

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Everything about this cover. Note the little child flailing in the top left of the picture.

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>>9641074
At least the Crime and Punishment one has both a great translation and a pretty good cover. Best of this series by a long shot.

>>9641503
This is the best cover of that series though.

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>>9647527
Here is the other cover for Oliver Ready's translation for argument's sake.

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>this thread

>>9643951
The different fonts piss me off but apart from that it suits the book well, especially the maroon

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how about vidya covers

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>>9647635
those were original ones

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>>9640568
>mfw

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>>9643887

>>9647505
Maybe, I mostly remember him having a bunch of goats

>>9642254
>Anonymous 06/15/17(Thu)20:58:01 No.9642254▶>>9642484
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>>>9641520
>It's even more insulting when the movie is absolute blood stool
well if the book is trash the movie will be too desu

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>>9641555
lel

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It was a success anon. I hope you're proud of me.

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>>9648724

>>9647524
looks terrible

>>9641317
Dr. Seuss Communist Manifesto

>>9642947
Kawaii desu

>>9646767
Proud of you

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I want to know /lit/'s opinion on this one. Personally I love it, but I feel as though people might hate it.

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How does /lit/ like this one? I thought it was charming.

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>>9649100
I bought that one, because the only other version they had was pic related.

>>9649012
Love it, totally inspired by Franz von Byros

>>9641678
KEK

>>9649012

Perfectly fine.

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I didn't mind it until I read the book but now I think it misses the mark entirely. Pretty good translation though.

>>9641074
The Dorian Gray one is fine

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>>9649367

Here is my copy. Gold leaflet paper, like a Bible.

>>9641317
what the FUCK

>>9648724
I see nothing wrong with this.

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Someone gifted me this edition, I am mildly upset

>Let's just put some old fucker on the cover, he sure looks like he lives in Dublin!
They even put a smaller version of the old man on the spine

>>9649521
I really like that one.

>>9649367
>Pretty good translation though.
how would you know?

>>9649918
Because I tried a few other translations and that one was the most engaging and felt as though it was in keeping with Tolstoy's intent.

>>9643824

Why do you like his account better, or are you just memeing?

I finally got round to reading Arendt recently and it seems to me no-one takes her message seriously. She was basically saying; "Guys there are a bunch of people in allied society who would have acted exactly the same as Eichmann did, it's only because of an accident of fate your granddad was storming Normandy and not stuffing Jews in an oven". But everyone seems to use her writing (and the banality of evil quote) to say "Lol, Eichmann was such a square (and an inhuman monster too), I sure am glad nothing like that could ever happen again!"

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>>9640377
Spanish cover of lord of the flies

>>9641512
It could be a decent cover for Battle Royale if the colors weren't so ugly.

>>9643743
This would be great if it were recreated in a photo or in a not-overly-cartoonish style.

>>9649964
lol why is this book such a meme.
is it even good?

>>9649964
10/10

>>9649964
I rather enjoy this one tbqh.