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Cliche book covers/things you hate

>Book filled with "wonder"
>Uses this cover
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>this page intentionally left blank
>even though its clearly written text on it
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>>7854232
who are those hot chicks in the photo?
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>>7854205
Glossy covers make me irrationally angry.
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This painting is used as the cover of Camus' The Fall in my country. Feels a bit off really after reading it.
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>Books that have naked people on the cover, particularly old style paintings or statues, in an attempt to look sophisticated and artistic
Just makes me feel embarrassed to buy it desu
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Most covers for Lolita are silly.

>inb4 someone posts the hideous wall/ceiling crotch-looking shot.
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faces looking over the book edge
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>>7854836
What is the audience for this? Can Jersey Shore fans even read?
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Wordsworth thread?
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>How [buzzword filled subtitle]
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>>7855338
Wordsworth transcends the concepts of love and hate, of beauty and ugliness. They are the only ones in the modern world who can truly represent the abstract sense of the human experience; that is human's emotions, sense of aesthetics, logic and so on.
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>>7854836
How will anyone be able to tell if 'snooki' has died, her eyes look full rigor mortis 24/7.
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>>7855227
Probably grandmas who bought it for their middle school grandchildren and it gets thrown in the trash two months later without being read.
That's my best guess at least.
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>>7854205
>cover is anything other than just the title and author with maybe a small design somewhere, large picture of the author's face is fine too

>>7854836
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tbe_FQnMD0
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>>7854205
I really like the painting
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>book filled with retarded Judaic bullshit
>cover is this
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>>7854635
Like they stock actual porn lit in the bookstore, its weird to even walk by it, but who doesn't like to think of their clerk is judging me anyway.
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>>7854836

has anyone read this book? how is it?
I feel so fucking god awful that even she can get something by her published but I probably never will.

What does she even write in the book? How is the prose?
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>>7856367
Dont get bummed out. Its very likely written by a Ghostwriter like most of the books from celebs
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>>7854205
Anything like this
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>>7856574
Even this?
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books that use the red background, yellow sun, black silhouette (usually a tree)
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>>7855454
>I only read what other people tell me to read

and I'm not talking about Snooki
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Eyes
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>authors name takes up three times as much space as the book's title
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>>7856762
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>>7856762
I get why they do that if it's someone like Tom Clancy though, the guy's name is very recognisable. Stephen King books are pretty similar from what I've seen.
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>giant blurb on the front cover
>blandest possible description of the book
>uses the word "unputdownable"
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>cutesy handwritten text
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>>7856671
>The cover will stop me from reading a book

You're the real pleb.
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