ITT we post our favourite book covers

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>>9937248
How can other science-fiction writers compete?

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perfect facial structure

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>>9937366
aliyums

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Rare occasion when a picture of the movie adaptation actually looked good as the cover.

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This my favorite cover of this book (sorry that it's for ants)

>>9937248

I love this cover as well, but I don't feel like it best represents Viron. I got the feeling Viron was a pretty backwards place that lacked high culture and aesthetics - very nitty-gritty, base, and violent.

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>>9937248
I love all the detail in the picture.

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>>9939869

This is an excellent cover. Thanks, anon.

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>>9937366
>asian girl
>perfect facial structure
Excuse me?

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nothing personnel plebs

>>9939835
The palace sounded pretty nice, or at least looked nice in my head. The cover probably painted how I saw it. Also I just noticed that Mucor is on the cover for the first time.

>>9940117

I know the palace and Ermine's were supposed to be for the upper classes, but judging from the description of Viron and its inhabitants, I get the feeling it should be over-the-top in the sense of an American McMansion. Anyways, it's beautiful art, and yes Mucor is there. : )

I'm just now the first hundred pages into On Blue's Waters. Love these books!

>>9940174
I've also recently started Book of the Short Sun and am about 1/3 of the way through 'In Green's Jungles'. This is easily some of Wolfe's best works. Blue was nice but the whole way through it I felt like Wolfe was building up to the real story. Green isn't what I was expecting it to be but I'm enjoying the hell out of it. Lots of stories within stories again, which I love. Also Short Sun is very reminiscent of The Fifth Head of Cerberus, which is my favourite Wolfe story. So of course I'm having a great time.

>>9940195

Yes, his stories are so jam packed with details, and as you say, stories within stories, that a trudging period at the beginning seems impossible to avoid before things begin to fall into place. I'm glad to hear I have some great reading that awaits me!

>>9938971
Very good

>>9940625
Now show us your breasts

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>>9940348

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Vintage covers are hit or miss. Some are pretty nice.

>>9940174
>but judging from the description of Viron and its inhabitants, I get the feeling it should be over-the-top in the sense of an American McMansion.

I reckon we got that with Blood's house

>>9939913
Necronomicon?

>>9939869
Getting the urge to play SimTower.

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>>9937248

>>9940657
kawaii

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Most covers for this book are pretty great. Can't say the same for most NYRB classics

>>9939869
You might enjoy this

https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Biestys-Incredible-Cross-Sections-Richard/dp/0679814116

>>9942327
that's tight

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>>9942037
I would disagree.

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>>9942037
Another for reference.

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Recently, I like the Penguin covers for Nancy's books

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>>9942339
I also like the covers from this series, particularly this one

>>9942339

What stands out about this to you? It looks like different flavors of jelly beans.

>>9939906
Is there more?

>>9940348
that's a sticker. you can't to fool us

>>9940125
pretti gud
>>9940625
the older edition with the bird was much nicer
>>9942037
fuck not just the cover this book is also satisfyingly thicc for how short and thin it is

>>9942020
I think I want to buy this book

>>9943848
horrible

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>>9944826
>Finland

not even once

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I don't like the book much, but the cover is excellent.

>>9945000
>SON
>XON

The cover looks like shit, maybe there's some meaning to it I'm not comprehending but that wouldn't make it look any better

>>9945000
both the picture and the font are fucking terrible

>>9937248
>not smashing that book with a sledgehammer.

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>>9945997
wow it's a bunch of cuboids with inaccurate perspective

cool

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>>9946362
>unimpressed by cuboids

pleb

>>9943895
das purdy

>>9946728
the NYBR novels are almost always guaranteed a 10/10 cover

my favorite would be warlock

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the other cover for this isnt even close

>>9938978
this is cool as shit, is it any good though?
>>9946893
odd but i like it

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>>9946436
Have you seen this one?

>>9946436
Excellent

>>9947001
>>9946436
>disrespecting Moreau like this

>>9938981
my heart aches every time

>>9940348
> Signet classic
> having a distasteful cover

Nope. That's a photo made in jest, anon. Please do not believe it to be true.

>>9942351
I've seen a few crime books like this in WH Smiths and it makes me want to read more crime fiction. Very beautiful covers.

>>9945722
damn didnt know toby jones was in this one, will watch

>>9946893
man, imagine how fucked you would be if you read GR translated into Japanese

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come at me

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>>9949124
>come at me

*comes at u*

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>>9937248

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I like how the minimal design enhances the classic painting.

>>9937248
delicious cover

>>9940348
>wordsworthclassics.jpg

>>9947877
Never heard of this, love the cover, am finding the book now because of it

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>>9949437
Good choice. I like this one too.

>>9939827
Wow... I need to print that and frame it

>>9951843
Got a signed copy of this one.

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Mandatory

>>9946926
>this is cool as shit, is it any good though?
No. it's shit, honestly. cool pic tho

>>9949605
This is great!

>>9949437
Genuinely bought it solely for the cover. didn't realise I was getting a good book too.

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>>9951954
> literally called Michael More Dick

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>>9937248

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>>9949608
I had that painting on a copy of Kafka's the Castle once. Invisible Cities somehow doesn't seem right.

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The GOAT cover

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>>9937248

https://www.loa.org/books/556-the-ross-macdonald-collection-3-volume-boxed-set

>>9954734
is that the proto-1984?
I've been meaning to check it out, but now I know what cover to buy

>>9946728
and holy shit, this book sounds awesome by description
is it really like Borges' fiction? he is one of my favorites

>>9953238
The three volume set is nice, but I wish all three had covers as good as that.

>>9947877
Have you (or anyone else in this thread) read Fermor? I picked up "a time of gifts" because I'm rarely led astray by nyrb, but am still like a week from starting it. His output of travel lit is pretty bonkers.

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>>9938956
everytime i go into the bookstore i want to get this because the cover is so damn attractive.

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>>9956059
gormenghast is so aesthetic, just in general

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>>9939906
:^)

>>9939893
ugh no

any time ive ever seen people post or use wanderer above the sea of fog it was from fedoracore and/or libertarians

not only does the book use the painting but its like a trendy soft pastel rendition

>forward by karl knausgaard

fucking hell. is penguin publishing a meme series now?

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t. Pleb
but I find it funny

>>9937366
Flatfaced, no chin, bunny teeth, low cheeks, broad piggy snubnose, adenoid facies lips. Totally perfect. If you're a weeaboo.

>ripping a piece of art out of its context, cropping it, and slapping a title over it
Worshipping a cover is worshiping marketing instead of the contents of the book. No author writes thinking about how the cover will turn out.

>>9956059
just print out the cover then.

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>>9944826

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YOU KNOW WHY THEY CALL ME MR WORLDWIDE

>>9942278
Why the hell does Gene Wolfe get such amazing cover art?

>>9958082
He gets some shit art as well. Like the SF Masterworks ones. Also the majority of the 5th Head of Cerberus covers are utterly awful, the only good ones are the old first prints that you can't get any more except used

>>9937366
Good taste Anon

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>>9937366
>perfect facial structure

yeah no

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It's a translation of The Master and Margarita btw.

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>>9959763
wew

>>9956487

I just bought this version, instead of other and it was 7 euros more expensive

I know this is not a best book

>>9942820
This one I might buy.

>>9957623
1 good boy point has been added to your account

>>9959763
That book started out great but the ending was lame.

>>9958082
The Japanese cover art for BotNS is so good

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>>9944742
I found this copy in a thrift store the first time I read it and had to actually find a different copy later. Doesn't even have the subtitle on the front.

>>9961016
Well, it's still the best. If you don't want don't read the second part.
The first three seasons of Lost were perfect, and the ending was lame.
It's always like that with art plot. Brothers Karamazov also had a lame ending.

>>9961016
The epilogue was great. At that point it shows Ivan quite literally waiting for Godot and humanizes the entire thing. You win some you lose something

>>9947877
This book is beautiful, short, its prose is dense and sweet, highly recommend.

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never even read it but look at this shit

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I love Joe Abercrombie's book covers.

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This and their Gravity's Rainbow cover are two of my favorites

>>9940646
Finally something good.
>>9942339
Decent too.
>>9949437
Nice.
>>9953092
Based.
>>9953899
Mhmm.
>>9956099
Sweet.
>>9965549
Pretty gud.

Rest are lame. Also where the fuck are Les Mis and older Alice in Wonderland covers? WHY IS /LIT/ SO SHIT AT AESTHETICS?

>>9964217
lol

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I don't know why, it's just so visually appealing to me.

>>9968594
That's the second time that cover has been posted in this thread. I don't get the appeal, I really don't

>>9968811
Me neither, it really just looks like shit

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>>9938971

>>9968862
no u

>>9969078
I like it

>>9945997
>that one anon who keeps pushing the Ruda books posts again

Tbh though, I have heeded your shilling and will be buying it soon... Is it a difficult text?

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>>9937248

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>>9940627
Objectively wrong.

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coming through plebs