/lit/ - Literature

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>Giving a shit about the cover

Why? I enjoy reading McCarthy so much I don't really give a shit about the piece of cardboard that holds together his beige-prose-with-gore sandwich.

>>5106128
>not reading on an e-reader so you can avoid the shitty covers

I have all of those.

The covers are horrid but the spines are nice and I see the spine on my shelf more than the cover so I don't mind.

>>5106128
I hated the cover so incredibly much I went out of my way to find the 25th anniversary to replace it.

The 25th version also has better paper quality and print.

>>5106472
The print is like grey in the billboard one it hurts my eyes

>>5106561
The 25th anniversary has what I think is the perfect print. Sharp and crisp and black.

I wish all books were printed with that paper and print.

>>5106578
vintage makes the best paperbacks ever
god damn all of their books feel and look perfect

>>5106598
Not always. If you look at my photograph, you'll see a copy of Thomas Pynchon's V., which has abysmal print quality.

The Vintage version of For Whom The Bell Tolls also has low quality paper. It's mainly their anniversary editions that have the best paper and print. The anniversary edition of Gravity's Rainbow also has fantastic paper and print.

>>5106607
that sucks, i've always had great luck
even taipei was really well made

>>5106612
My go-to is Penguin books. If they don't have what I am looking for, I'll check Vintage, and if they also are out, I'll usually find a HarperPerennial version that is acceptable.

The most important thing for me is font and print quality. Then cover and then paper. Paper will get soft over time, but an ugly cover will always remain ugly.

>>5106830
top fucking kek

>>5106830

>>5106833
This is so fucking hilarious.

>>5106833
where did you find this?

>>5106830
More pls

>>5106844
covers were made by some dude named Jerry Puryear.

google his name with Cormac McCarthy.

>>5106858


>>5106872
lol

>>5106128

yeah it's fucking atrocious, you don't even want to be seen reading what looks to be a GoT type shit.

>>5106858

I would love to see the pictures of the bodies in the basement.

>>5106833
This is incredible

>>5106598

>vintage

My vintage Slaughterhouse Five is fucked, misprints errwhere, a couple of pages where literally sliced up near the top

>>5107119
Which cover do you have?

I have this Vintage SH5 which I have not yet read.

this one

I know this isn't McCarthy but this cover has always bothered me. What is it supposed to be?

i have this one and i'm very happy with it
i like the all lowercase title

>>5107202
A chick holding flowers against her knees. I have that copy of that book.

>>5107213
Yeah I have that copy too. It's one of my favorite editions of anything, I love the way the pages feel and the way the cover feels. I could just never figure out what body part that was supposed to be.
I think I may be retarded though, because now it seems exceptionally obvious that those are her knees.

>>5107169
goat

>>5107169
Isn't that just fanart? BM had some pretty good fan art.

>>5107213
Oh, that's her knees. Ok

My favorite is the 25th Anniversary cover.

>>5107243
Yeah, I was always stuck on the idea that those were her breasts, even though it didn't really seem to fit

my cover. not bad.

This first cover starting from the left is the initial Suttree I had. I looks nice, but it was missing about 40 fucking pages. The second cover is the one I own now, and it's fine. The one on the left is by far the nicest looking one, except it's apparently rare. The cheapest one I could found was around 100 bucks.

>>5107508
*on the right is by far the nicest

>>5107508
The cover on the left has annoyed me for a while. I may be misremembering, and if I am please correct me, but when does Suttree take place on a plain? Especially one as lush and golden as that. The things about Suttree that stuck me was the Knoxville grime and the various ne'er-do-wells that populated the story. I feel like the middle and right covers spell that out a little more. I mean, the one on the left is a nice picture, but it doesn't seem right for Suttree.

>>5107528
The only vague connection would be the storm in the distance, showing that Suttree will have to face the mess he's made someday.
Reading the first paragraph, I feel you're completely correct, it's unwashed and lived in, not the feel of an open crop field:
Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you.
Although, at the other end of the spectrum, the final paragraph contains this:
Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming corn and in the castellated press of cities. His work lies all wheres and his hounds tire not. I have seen them in a dream, slaverous and wild and their eyes crazed with ravening for souls in this world. Fly them.
>brooming corn
A slight reference, but it's there I suppose

>>5107508
dude what do you mean the one on the left missing 40 pages
i checked that out from the library
i should get another cover?

>>5107641
No, I've checked other copies in bookstores, and they are not missing any. I can not explain it, but my copy lacked a huge portion. It was something like page 128, a page turn, and then 212. Not torn out, just printed like that.

>>5107710
oh okay wow that sucks

>>5106128
The cover is a call back to the broadsheets and handbills of the era the book is set in. Advertising, both commercial and political, looked like that.

While that's the reasoning behind the cover's look, it was still a bad choice.

>>5106128
idk man if john banville said that about my book i'd be pretty happy with myself. but that's just me...
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