>The perfect book cover doesn't exi-
>>9889060
is that painting the perfect cover for every book or something?
>>9889060
>The perfect book cover doesn't exi-
Yeah, it's called simple clothbound with a gilded etched title
book cover illustrations are capigtalist propaganda
>>9889060
I posted this once in a book cover thread as a joke and anons thought I was being serious, so I defended it.
I later saw posts about "some fag defending this cover earlier." KEK.
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>>9889077
I bet these fuckin shits have quotation marks
>>9889077
any lowry painting would be more fitting
>>9889060
looks like something that'd be on the shelf of a female booktuber who only buys books to make her shelves look more colourful
>>9889077
>>9889099
>>9889111
chek'd
>>9889873
They don't.
>>9889889
>889
my condolences
What is the best Ulysses cover? This is mine
>>9889077
>We want the Dickens audience
Looks like the cover of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
>>9890738
Yeah that's mine too it's great, seriously I thought you owned my book there for a secound
>perfect book covers don't exi-
>>9890909
Fuck off, Nazi scum
am I the only one that thinks this looks great?
>>9891067
It is actually excellent. Even in this group photo you can tell exactly which one is joyce/stephen
>>9891074
Most of the Norton Critical I saw are great.
>>9890738
unironically the original
Not the perfect cover, but the best one I've ever seen for this particular book.
>>9890738
Thats the copy I own, from the 90s or whatever. I think its chill
Found this edition for just 10$. My personal favourite
>>9889060
Thats just a knock off of the most common cover ever
>>9891165
Nice one.
Used to like this one
>>9891143
Yeah - associate that shade of blue with the book - reminds me of cool Irish air and the Liffey
>>9891186
There's a booger on that cover.
>>9889060
>>9891241
Joyce chose it because of its association with Greek epics. Funny that now it has taken on an association with Ireland too, for you.
I raise you
>order Stoner from a used book seller
>it's some gay modern tumblr edition with one of those built in tassels
Should I just throw it away bros?
It's a shame the book itself is mostly indulgent dreck, but the cover is nice
Any edition of lolita
>>9889060
I quite like this.
>>9889099
>>9891180
I hate these.
>>9889099
Ding-ding-ding!
>>9891362
Immediately.
>>9889099
Nice try, Arthur Ransome!
>>9891143
Yes, I really like the typography and the hue.
>>9891839
Seconded.
>>9891401
Ahahaha nice
>>9889073
It's a pretty good painting. I don't like that particular cover, but I do always think about that painting when I think of Portrait.
>>9891856
That's a pretty relaxing picture. Wouldn't something horrible like one of those pics of a dead pile of Jews or something suit the book more?
>>9891186
thought it was gonna be zarathustra. this painting has probably been used for every single one of nietzsche's books
>>9891017
>you have to be a nazi to appreciate Hitler
But Kennedy and Kubrick!
>>9891360
AAAUUUUQUAAA LUUUUNNGGG
>>9890738
i dont have a copy but i like this one best
i love this art style
>>9892420
>>9892389
Sun streaking cold, an old man wandering lonely.
Taking time, the only way he knows.
Leg hurting bad as he bends to pick a dog end.
He goes down to a bog and warms his feet.
>>9891783
The current Murrican one is better.
>>9889060
Pic related for me, just because of how playful it looks. The Debolsillo covers of Borges and Bolaño are also pretty based.
>>9892558
>>9890738
i've got this translated one, hard cover. i think it looks good, nice shade of green with golden details
>>9889060
I like the fact that it's so obviously young adult literature reader bait.
I honestly have trouble reading certain books if I don't like the cover. Don't know why. It just makes me completely unmotivated to actually pick it up.
>>9891922
hey it's a nice painting.
>>9892879
Isnt that a good thing tho
>>9892922
Eh. I think you're missing a logical step.
For me, a bad cover indicates that the publisher/editors probably cared less than usual about making sure everything was typeset correctly/pleasingly. So, those books are usually just a bitch to look at -- the insides, that is.
>>9893094
if you think a colorful cover is gonna convince a john green reader to get through a james joyce novel you are mislead
imo it's not a bad thing in itself, but it's indicative of a larger 'bad thing' which is that the publishers seem to think classic literature can only be sold under the guise of young adult literature with a tumblr art cover
i think the japanese cover of gravity's rainbow looks pretty cool
>>9893135
But we really cant have nice things because readerships change no matter what. Publishers have to adjust to that change or else they'll just stop selling classic literature altogether since no buys them anyway outside of academic requirements.
>>9889060
Get fucked, that is some Friedrich-ripoff McDonald's shit and it doens't even have a moocow in the clouds (as near as I can tell at a first look).
>>9893143
burn in hell faggot
Rate
>>9890738
>>9892950
The artist actually has a ridiculous amount of paintings in the same vein as Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog
my fave
>>9893577
>cannot rebut a single point made in the post to which he angrily replied
You're a loser.
This or Shogun by James Clavell.
Am I a pleéb for loving this cover?
>>9890738
>>9892558
murakami's are always great
>>9893957
love this one, wish it was cheaper to get this edition.
>>9892420
I hate this art style
>>9893708
Barnes & Noble Christmas Special Edition/10
>>9891783
Was gonna post these. Really like the Vintage Mishima covers.
>>9894205
Someone buy this already to upload for us.
>>9894217
are you fuck you?
>>9892389
Sitting on a park bench (TA TA TANNN)
Eyeing little girls with bad intent (TA TA TA TA TA TA TANNNN)
OH AQUALUNG!
>>9891907
For us it is relaxing, because we live in big cities and work in offices full of people, our chaos is man made, and the countryside is a place to escape to. But to actually live out there, to survive by hunting and foraging, to outwit one's own hunters, to lie in muck every night with a woman and starving children and be disease-stricken, bug-ridden, is a very pure and senseless kind of pain and suffering couched in constant fear. It cannot even be called poverty, because it is the state of everything.
Perfect little girls doesn't exi-
>>9892858
that's beautiful but why a feather?
>>9894740
Sorry, I'm dumb. It's a quill.
>>9893855
Ul SS?