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YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS BAD BOOK COVERS THREAD
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YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS
BAD BOOK COVERS THREAD
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>>7544922
>see this shitty design
>immediately fall in love with it
>check out amazon and see that there's one left for ~$5
>pic related
Immediately going to return this bland cover
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>>7544900
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>>7544922
is this real?
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>>7544908
Very Dr. Seussy but not bad
Check it
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>>7544937
Mail it to me, bud
I've never read Lord Jim
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>>7545059
Too late Amazon already credited my account.
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>>7544908
that's a comic book kid
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>>7545103
It's not. I picked it up in the store and leafed through it.
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Huxley loved poo.
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>>7545396
Or South Park. Or Tron.
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>>7544908
former student
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>>7546478
>see this shitty design
>immediately fall in love with it
>check out amazon and see that there's one left for ~$5
>pic related

Immediately going to return this bland cover
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>>7546335
>illustrated platinum edition
how do you go from this
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>>7546674
to this
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>>7546678
TO THIS
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>>7546335
>>7546674
>>7546678
>>7546689
>>7546340

You know it's good when it's platinum
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>>7546678
This one makes me want to punch a wall.
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The people responsible for these needs to be shot.
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>>7547572
this cannot be real
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>>7547572
>people
>needs
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>>7547572
For the non mexicans, she's a news reporter called Lolita Ayala
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>>7546490
are you memeing me boy
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>>7547620
Thank god I didn't get that
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>>7546340

mother of god, it's real

>y'know Cossacks..Russia..whatever
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>>7544937
This cover looks way better
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>>7548711
I wanted a turd though. The cover is just bland. Also the notes are laughably bad. Like that's actually the funniest part about the novel is how fucking terrible the notes are. One of them is for the word cannibal and directs me to look in a completely different book.
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>>7547572
10/10
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>>7544937
>>7544922
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>>7546478
>>7546490
He did it again. He saw a meme thread in /lit/ about bad covers. So he posted pics of Wordsworth-editions of classics. Then he had a little giggle, infatuated with his own cleverness.

>>7547620
Talk about misleading cover.

>>7548705
Cossack genocide, best day of my life.
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>>7547572
>>7547620
lmao, you'd assume it's a fucking biography or some shit with a cover like that fuck
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>>7545396
i like this one
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>>7550739
Koreans don't understand europe though. It's not their fault.
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>>7547572
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>>7550739
hahaha holy shit

>>7549508
my god this is a bad post
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>conan doyle novel
>picture of what is clearly christie's poirot
oh, you
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>>7551603
no end to the joys of illustrated platinum ed
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>>7551603
>>7551612
EXCUSE ME
DO YOU USE GANOO SLASH LINUCKS?
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infinite hue
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war is hue
freedom is hue
ignorance is hue
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>>7551741
yo thats p dope
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>>7551732
nah, iOS, sorry kid
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>>7551741
Every time I see this in book stores I ask myself what the fuck. I had never heard of DFW before lit, why the fuck did we get such an extravagant edition, by cia das letras no less? Or is there an actual group of br people who like him?
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>>7551841
>>7551841
>mfw
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>>7551841
Well, his short stories were doing the runs around 2004 in argentina. you must have had something in the early 00's but you just didn't notice it.
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>>7544942
Why is Michael Jackson on the cover?
>>7547572
This one is great.
>>7551612
Is that a caricature of Barack Obama?
>>7551741
That's dope as fuck.
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>>7549235
The name's campy but it's fine
Flashy book covers can be OK if everything's high-resolution
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