Lets have one of these /lit/
I'll start with one that's great and always gets posted and talked about but no edition has.
>>7736824
that's 10/10 actually, damn
>>7736828
It is. So much that I'm genuinely curious about how much a good quality custom edition of the book with this cover could cost.
>>7736824
man. that's just fucking incredible.
i like this one, but yours is hard to beat.
>>7736824
>;(
>>7736976
I have this lmao
>>7736915
I really like this one.
>>7736915
>>7737096
That's Ilya Repin's "Demonstration on October 17, 1905."
Better than the B&N one.
not that tied to the story
but i love it
The Oxford Inherent Vice cover is patrician as fuck
>>7737104
Great jest, my friend
>>7736824
I'm reading this now.as pleb as it sounds, I feel like I should have found an abridged version
>>7736824
Pretty much all the NYRB Classics covers.
>>7739664
It feels that way, but dragging yourself through the novel is part of the experience. Stick with it.
>>7736915
Kid on the bottom would make for a good reaction image.
>>7739778
Am I a plebe for thinking that a lot of the Penguin Classics covers are super tasteful and also look pretty sharp?
>>7740358
Thank you anon for this picture.
>>7740487
they're all pretty bland, generic, risk-free oil paintings.
Taste is subjective, but unless you can name the particular painting depicted in the cover, you just like pretty pictures and are a pleb.
OP's example is a clever outlier. 99% of penguin classics feels like lonely tree on landscape. Remember they have a marketing department who tries to sell the book based on the cover. The general idea is, stupid college students who want to appear intellectual but don't actually know anything about art would probably buy a pretty oil painting cover.
Take picture related as example. Who might read NYT best sellers in the spy genre? Maybe pseudo-intellectual 30 somethings who want the cache of the noir style with a splash of colour to show they are not bland or drab.
Things are objectively pleb or patrician, but you might like a patrician thing because you're a pleb, and vice versa. To elevate your own status, you need to be informed about why you like it.
In your case, do you at least know what painting that is? If you never bothered to check, that's basically the definition of pleb. Because you're happy to remain ignorant and led by the nose by a group of idiots who graduated with Marketing and Business as their majors.
>>7740525
No fucking way
>>7740555
what about this?
>>7738890
Vintage has great covers in general.
>>7740564
>>7740572
Yes. Yes they are
>>7740555
Well, I looked it up back when I was reading it, but I can't remember who made it off the top of my head.
It's a pretty groovy picture. I also remember reading about the book as I read it, which helped significantly because
> lol deeper meaning
>>7740583
>penis artistically triggered
>>7740555
nobody buys penguin classics "because of the cover"
they buy them because they've already been memed into buying them or need them for class. Who does Pingu even have to compete with? Oxford I guess. Everything else is just pocketbooks or gaudy special editions. It's all probably owned by the same fags anyway.
I fucking love this one. It's exactly how I imagine Stoner. Some average looking dude kind of disengaged and plaintively staring at the floor. And way the title is set against the background is so perfect.
Also if you've ever held this edition, it's got that really premium, almost vinyl cover that's a nice chunky size.
I love this book. This cover is 10/10
>>7740599
I know not everyone likes these ones, but I adore the Vintage editions of In Search of Lost Time.
>>7740675
fuck
>>7740599
>>7740675
The most annoying part of them is the "Vintage [Surname]" on the covers. Fine if it's an iconic name, but when it's something like pic related it just looks stupid.
>>7740555
>good binding
>good intros
>often good translations
Whats your problem again? Sure the paintings on the cover dont always fit (Spinoza's Ethics annoyed me) but for the most part I enjoy them.
Plus le Carré is fantastic and if you think anyone actually reads spy novels to look "patrician" you need a reality check. Its basically Raymond Chandler with British people and Smiley is more righteous than hard boiled.
>>7740343
Vaporwave af
pretty much all of his books
>>7740651
you seem to lack general reading comprehension friend.
I gave the justification for the cover based on rudimentary analysis of what a marketing department might say to cover their asses regarding why they are so lazy and uninspired when it comes to covers.
That's a subtle distinction. It isn't really, but I guess if you're writing for teenage retards on 4chan who can't grasp the most basic concepts, everything is subtle.
>>7740720
your rudimentary analysis is based on your personal speculation. nice try, but the reason most people appreciate penguin book covers is because they are generally tastefully done.
Everyman Classic of this book is also good.
>>7740754
>Everyman
>>7740758
>hating Everyman
>>7736824
>That face
Top kek
>>7740758
>he doesn't like Everyman
>he doesn't have a shelf full of matching Everyman spines
>>7740720
I doubt penguin's marketing department chooses cover art for the "reasons" you stated. Normally I wouldn't correct dumb fags on 4chan but both your posts just reek of sophomoric insecurity and I couldn't help myself.
Kill yourself dude.
>>7740555
Fucking lol at you getting that triggered and cunty over such an innocuous post.
>>7740555
john le carre owns and those covers are cool
if you can't enjoy a great spy thriller as well as ulysses and mason & dixon fuck off from /lit/ tbqh
>>7736888
I want to ask this again. Anyone knows?
>>7740811
How does one even go about getting a custom book to begin with?
Is there a collected works of Shakespeare that isn't shit looking?
>>7740836
I recently got one for next to nothing. The cover's an inoffensive maroon colour with a big white box on the front that says "complete works of Shakespeare" with drawings of guys in various costumes arranged around it. It's the type of thing that could easily be horrible but it's executed okay.
>>7740836
Do you want to buy one or just asking out of curiosity?
>>7740853
Both, I look around my local used book stores and most of them are horrible/ $100 norton edition.
>>7740874
I got the Everyman edition from a used book store for under $2. Not particularly aesthetically pleasing, but good enough and dirt cheap.
I like my French depressives cyberpunk to be quite honest.
>>7740836
I have one that is enormous. I'll take a picture when I feel like it. It looks pretty nice
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>>7740782
Indeed. I hope everyone is being ironic.
>>7741034
Not cyberpunk at all you moron.
>>7736824
what the fuck are you guys going on about
it's sort of ugly and symbolically it's too obvious
>>7743222
I don't understand why they make covers like this. What's the problem with Wordsworth's people
>>7740664
word
>>7745267
Would the copyrighted work be the text, or the image?
Moby-Dick is on the public domain, isn't it? So he should be fine to have it on the site.
These old Penguin Modern Classics look nice in my opinion
>>7745295
Depends what else the text contains. Introductions, footnotes etc
The Mad Science collection
https://tablo.io/charlie-dorton/the-mad-science
P.S tablo and other services good for uploading books you want to share.
>>7745355
yeah that one's great
>>7746222
why don't you just get it printed to size on cardstock (like 90 cents) and just cut the original cover off and tape the new one on?
>>7743222
I went to the bookshop the other day. They literally had a whole wall of Wordsworth Classics, including this. People thought I was mad for laughing like I did when I saw it.
>>7746255
not a laughing matter, anon. Its a piece of art
Posted this before but it's still one of the best ones tbqh familiae; will follow this post up with another Dutch cover that's more original. Definitely look up alternatives of this cover though; there's pretty much not a single bad TDOH edition out there.
>>7736976
nice trickery m8, thought the book was colored like our flag for a minute
>>7746772
And here it is. Just look at it. It's hilarious yet strangely appealing.
Nothing especially my favorite, I'm just reading it now and am curious if anyone know the image. It is a rather good cover, though.
>>7736824
>>7746261
I like it.
>>7747617
Well, shit nigga. I just want to know what the painting is.
If it's not marbling, I'm not really interested t b h
