Book covers that are better than the book.

>>9642691
I haven't read 2666, but I know it's about murders and such. Can someone explain to me why the cover has all these satyrs and magicians?

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>>9642691

>>9642691
>>9642769
Are these books bad? I was going to order both after seeing them memed so hard

>>9642691
You either didn't read it or didn't get it.

>>9642792
I thought 2666 was amazing.
>>9642767
I imagine it as referential to what our minds project onto complete and abject vacuousness or just the bizarre nature of the whole thing.

>>9642767
>>9642902
Also how sinister and horrifying and yet in some way artistic/explicit/intentional.

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This book got so retarded near the end.

>>9642769
Great cover, but the book itself is even better

>>9642792
I loved Laurus. Unironically my favorite book

>>9642769
dont care for the cover but Laurus was GREAT

>>9642767
I'm not too sure, it might be because there is a part about a painter and his art. But there might be some deeper meaning, or it just looks fucking cool. And by the way the book is damn good, OP is either taking the piss or dumb.

>>9642902
>>9642913
>>9644043
I'm halfway through it and love it a lot, but nevertheless stopped for now because of some major life events, but I feel it's okay since the publishers almost printed it as a set of different books.

The next part is the overlong part about the murders. I can't wait, >:)

>>9644056
Bolaño had written it over a long period of time and was trying to fisnish it before he died, he knw he had little time, and he intended it to be published in parts so it would make money over time for his family, so you can definitely tackle it in parts. Enjoy it.

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>2666
it's not set in 2666
>lush medieval fantasy cover
it's not fantasy or sci-fi
>book cover
it's an audiobook

>>9644067
take it back you wannabe ruskie

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Surely this lurid, technicolour cover communicates the unorthodox journey of a foreigner through Japan's cultural underbelly? A confounding world of ultraconservatism on the one hand and mindblowing, open weirdness on the other?

No, it's just about this dumb Belgian dude who can't take hints and goes to Japan with his Jap girlfriend. Congrats to the cover artist. Wouldn't have bought it if not for the cover. And the fact that it was the clearance sale of a store going out of business. Provides some entertaining cultural insights, but nothing a chantard didn't already know.

>>9644067
>uses the right title

10/10


>>9644322
You had me looking to buy that book with the first paragraph.

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The Pale King
>Hur durr the IRS is boring

Underworld
>Muh fragmented Cold War New York

The Bible
>Muh Crucifixion

>>9644322
kanker

>>9642769
>>9642930
>>9644322
These covers look tacky as fuck.

>>9644461
Were you, perhaps, expecting classic leatherbound tomes in this thread?

>>9644317
Oh you've read it, have you?

>>9644493
yeah it was pretty good but I ordered the short condensed version of it in a smugglers bible at the Kodak hotel apartment.

>>9644056

>almost

they did release a 3 volume edition.

>i couldn't get past the crimes, waaaaaahhhh
Fucking plebs all over my board

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>>9644299
This is the original cover, with the original ending with time traveling and aliens, you must have not read it.

>>9644567
There's an abridged version? And you read it? You should probably get the whole thing and read that. I can't imagine which parts they'd cut out, it's all so interconnected.