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5681783 No.5681783 [Reply] [Original]

What's the most hideous front cover

>> No.5681789

>>5681783
>Bella & Edward's Favorite Book

Holy shit. I'm gonna write a trash YA book under a pseudonym and have the main characters' favorite novel be the one I published using my real name and rake in the dough.

>> No.5681821
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5681821

Wordsworth Classics in the house

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5681850

/thread

>> No.5681855
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>> No.5681858

>>5681850
every time

>> No.5681869

>>5681850
what's wrong with it

>> No.5681871

>>5681850
fuck

>> No.5681874

>>5681783
> Bella&Edwards favorite book

I don't even...
Is this legal? Why are they doing this against literature?

>> No.5681878
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5681878

does anybody have that cover of 'the picture of dorian gray' with a black person on it? i cannot find it -_-

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5681881

Do I win?

>> No.5681913

>>5681881
eww, longfellow blank verse translation
they deserve it though

>> No.5681941

>>5681783
Not so much badly designed as it is insulting, that being said it could get teenage grills interested in patrician work.

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>> No.5681953

>>5681881
>introduction from a game designer
W
o
w

>> No.5681958
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>> No.5681964
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>>5681821
>>5681850
>>5681878
>>5681958
I've caught the big C, lads

>> No.5681965

>>5681958
seriously who the fuck thought these would be good

>> No.5681986

>>5681965
its very cheap looking

i know very little about publishing but i assume it is a dying industry, yes?

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>>5681783
>bella & edward's favorite book

>> No.5682105

>>5681986
I don't think so. Just like physical music albums, people just have to get creative. Of course nobody will buy something cheap and ugly when they can virtually download it; but if it's visually attractive, then it'll serve for collecting purposes. When I really like an eBook I've read, I usually buy a good-looking physical copy, for example.

>> No.5682125
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5682125

It could be a front cover of literally any fucking thing.

>> No.5682133

>>5682125
thats nice though, uninspired, but nice

>> No.5682144

>>5681789
So which one will be the bestseller? The fake book that references the real book, or the real book no one will have read until it's referenced in the fake book?

>> No.5682216

>>5682125
i like that cover

>> No.5682267
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>>5681874

I don't get this mentality. A shoutout from some teenybopper YA novel would be fucking sick for a literary writer, there're mouths to feed. It does feel a little dirty but if I ever get published I'd definitely try to start a conspiracy wherein popular YA authors reference my book. In return, I'd give them blurbs so they can feel like the literary establishment appreciates them.

Pic related. It's weird because the 50th anniversary edition has by far the most gorgeous typography I've ever seen, and its cover is wonderful. All other covers suck. Honorable mention to all B&N Classics covers.

>> No.5682321

>>5682105
yeah plus they have the college students to rip off year after year I guess publishing cant be any worse off than most industries...

personally i borrow the books I read from friends of the library. thats just my thing i guess.

plus my dad has an extensive sci fi library that i borrow from.

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>> No.5682404

>>5681881
hahahahahahah i forgot about this, god we live in the worst century

>> No.5682449

>>5681850
>You like Huey Lewis and the News?

>> No.5682503
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>>5681964
some Wordsworth classics covers are pretty good like their Shakespeare covers

other less so

>>5682404
le rong generation, im only 12 lik if u agree

>> No.5682518

>>5682404

*tips hunters cap*

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>>5682449

>> No.5682696

>>5681881
i don't even

>> No.5682698

>>5682393
Bilbo looks like Ricky Gervais

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5682707

You arent even close OP

>> No.5682933

The disgusting Picador Cormac McCarthy covers.

They are an insult to his work.

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>>5682933

>> No.5683015

I remember in thread someone posted a picture of a weird, thriller looking edition of the New Testament he got on his dorm mail.

If someone has it, please post it. It was great.

>> No.5683026

>>5682707
wut

>> No.5683031

>>5682967
edgy
like the book

>> No.5683271

>>5682707
You cannot comprehend how much I'm laughing right now.

>> No.5683317
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5683317

Just look at this shit.

>> No.5684080

>>5682503
De Quincey is brilliant but that is a pathetic excuse for a cover, especially considering the range of visually extravagant opium dreams in the novel

>> No.5684099

>>5683317
its actually appropriate.

>> No.5684115

>>5682267
Well, all the Brontes are all dead. They don't really need money.

Also, I think the new Burroughs covers are okay. Kinda ugly as fuck, but so is the books' content

>> No.5684122

>>5682707
haha

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>>5682707
This can't be real.

>> No.5684138

>>5682933
I think they'd be cool as posters or something, which I'm sure is the inspiration. And they are the only uniform printing of his books

>> No.5684143

>>5682707
Why is Zimmerman on the cover of.. oh...

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>>5684132
it is.

>> No.5684180
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5684180

Here you go.

>> No.5684184

>>5681783
>Bella and Edward's favorite book

Emily Bronte would upchuck and chuck herself out of her window

>> No.5684186

>>5682707
lost it

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>>5684143

>> No.5684195
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5684195

third world books in da house

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>>5681783

>> No.5684269
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>>5684257
>Lord Wolverton

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>>5684257
Oh God I read the sum-up.

Oh God, why did I do this?

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>>5682707
holy fucking shit my sides

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>>5681783
>/k/ the book

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>>5684257

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>>5684257
>COMPLETE WITH SECRET PASSAGEWAYS

well fuck me I'm convinced

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Dostoevsky FOR THE MILLENNIALS!

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>>5684257
>tfw this book is actually good

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>> No.5684345

>>5682393
Wow.

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5684352

i bough this.
and regret nothing.

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5684371

my favorite

>> No.5684376

>>5684342
>In these two incredible months, my extensive diet of "juice" and exercise regiment of walking to the other side of this tree has caused my head to shrink, my pants to change, and my loafers to lighten

>> No.5684388

>>5684342
I just realized he's in a graveyard.

>> No.5684396

>>5684388
when he was overweight he was close to death
>dat symbolism

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>>5684371
i don't even

>> No.5685295
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5685295

>German book covers

>> No.5685347

>>5685295
Don't even get me fucking started.
I'm German and this shit is so bad.
We even managed to fuck up a John Fucking Green title.
"The Fault In Our Stars" may be a pretentious Shakespeare... whatever...
But "Fate is a mean traitor" is just fucking stupid.

>> No.5685388

>>5684257
aww~

>> No.5685405
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5685405

Guy from >>5685295

>>5685347
This.
Movie titles are even worse. Or those goddamn subtitles.
>Die Hard -> Stirb langsam
>Tangled -> Rapunzel - Neu verföhnt

Sometimes it's not even a translation:
>Horrible Bosses -> Kill the boss
>Begin again -> Can a song save your life? (wat)

Most of our book covers are bad too. Compare pic related to the american edition.

Also german btw.

>> No.5685411

>>5681821
reading this exact one right now.
What is the purpose of a guy with a chicken so poorly drawn I can do better?

>> No.5685430

>>5685405

titles are quite commonly changed during localization, it's common for any language, either for marketing reasons or because they use some allusion unknown for speakers of another language etc

for instance when they translated pelevin's 'chapaev and void' to english (and german) it went as 'buddha's little finger' or 'clay machine gun', probably because english speakers mostly have no idea who chapaev is and how he is connected with pet'ka, petr pustota (whose last name literally means void)

>> No.5685437

>>5685405

you don't know pain
http://www.buzzfeed.com/marietelling/26-hilarious-titles-of-hollywood-movies-in-france

>> No.5685443

>>5685430
I know the reasons for this and I wouldn't say, that it's bad to change the title at all.

I just don't like it, when the new title is so fucking hideous, or not even translated but just made worse.

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>>5685405
why is The Shadow in that painting?

>> No.5685451

>>5685445
pretty stylish man
i wonder how he made his cloak to wave that way, it should have been specially sewn for that

>> No.5685454

>>5681850

Why is Ed Miliband holding an axe.

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>>5682933
worst part is that the previous picador designs were great

>> No.5685659

>>5685405
Incidentally, I think that Stirb langsam (Die slowly) is a pretty neat translation. I'd prefer to have the original version of course, but this one is a pretty kickass one.

>> No.5685681

>>5685437
>The Hit Girls
meh.
>Very Bad Trip
Hhhe
>Sex Friends
>Sexy Dance
>Sexe intentions
>Sex Crimes
>Sexy Devil
>Sex Academy
French like sex, I take it?
Also, their titles are really dumb.

>Night and Day
Hold me

>> No.5685955

>>5682393
Fucking hell.

>> No.5685977

>>5685451
tibetan magic, nigger

>> No.5685985

>>5684257
>superb period detail
>wolves in 18th century Yorkshire
>'Historical fiction'
>Lord Wolverton
>The sublimated abyssal sexuality of a 75 year old Christian woman quite happy to write about her bestial rape fantasies

"Oh Lord Wolverton, what big teeth you've got."

>> No.5685989

>>5684388
That's dark as fuck.