Alright /lit/ let's have a classic fun thread, post the absolutely terrible book covers.
Dude I saw this in my high school library and almost didn't read it.
Found this cover though, it really emulates the emotions I gain from the book.
Now I have this hardcover copy with a thing to slide it in and rad cover art, I think it's signed too.
Uncle gave it to me, the man is a based reader.
>>8041818
I didn't know Ricky Gervais was in the Hobbit.
>>8041853
I think he looks exactly like Mark Addy
Obligatory
>>8041853
My sides.
Believe it or not, this was the book that introduced me to "serious" literature
>>8041879
EightiesPornstar/10
>>8041870
what the fuck, I had to look that up because I thought you were pullin' a fast one.
Anyways, I think this cover I have for the Stranger is god awful. Felt like a damn weirdo reading it in public.
>>8041892
I don't see where you're coming from with this.
Shit like that today must look normal, considering how fartsy art is getting.
>>8041892
It's dope as fuck. I would love to read that in public.
>>8041818
>Judging books by their covers
>>8041888
I will admit, it does underscore the homoeroticism of the book
>>8041892
What does this even have to do with the book? Is there a missing scene where Mersault joins a band?
>>8041902
>because that's what we're doing
>>8041902
Calm down lad, we're just poking fun at bad covers
>>8041892
Are these guys a Ghost tribute act?
>>8041902
r u a rtrd?
>>8041906
My first thought was it represents the jury in the trial. The hats carry some religious symbolism, reminds me of the priests in Jesus Christ Superstar.
That gay fucking Brothers K book cover. God it's fucking terrible
>>8041844
best cover
I got a real kekker here.
>>8041870
I know too many Marmeledovs in my life. :(
>>8041818
Fucking horrendous.
>Pablo died today...
>>8044988
Did the Silver Surfer bust a nut on that cover, or what?
>>8045099
Touch and Go
>>8041892
I have that version, kind of like it.
>>8044963
Couldn't believe this one was real for the longest time
>>8041818
>>8045270
Is a reference to the recently discovered book 25 of the Odyssey, in which Polyphemus has his revenge by bonking Odysseus over the head with a cricket bat.
>>8044963
>>8045102
That cover's OK, what are you on about?
>>8045320
hello skip
>>8041818
This... but I am suspicious it was done as an intentional in-joke.
And for sheer graphic ineptness, this one is hard to beat.
>>8045375
how's this?
>>8045387
No way that's real.
>>8045414
http://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Island-Robert-Louis-Stevenson/dp/8132051130/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361871133&sr=1-1&keywords=tutis+treasure+island
>>8045426
I don't fucking understand.
>>8045438
pssh...nothing personnel...kid
>>8045387
>yeah Paulie I'm calling from the printer's where's the cover image for Treasure Island?
>Treasure Island? I don't-
>It was due today Paulie where the fuck is it?
>no yeah Treasure Island got it right here boss I'm mailing it to you right now boss
>good. For a minute Paulie I thought we had a problem.
>N-no problem boss
>*hangs up*
>>8045446
something is up about this chinese castle but i can't quite put my finger on it
>>8045463
Neuschwanstein, the disney castle, if you're not being ironic.
>>8045387
Wat?
>>8045446
>>8045387
>>8041892
that's the best version though (regardless of cover)
>>8045631
this cover is about as accurate as Doyle's actual research so it gets a quality pass from me
>>8045639
Curious about that comment -- it's been over a decade since I read the book, but it seems to me, as I think back to it, to be up to date in most areas, given when it was written.
>>8045648
You're right, it's more or less on-point with a lot of modern works, save for some additions he couldn't have known about. Fun to look at the book as a kiddy diorama, though, featuring an allosaurus attack.
I actually own this one.
>>8045727
>>8045727
that some vaporwave shit right there
The only real reason OP doesn't like that Hobbit cover is because the hobbit is fat, but nothing about the cover is literally, or fundamentally, wrong.
>>8045894
>39.95 for a wordsworth book
what the fuck kind of currency is that
>>8045918
Danish kroner
>>8041818
Still better than the movie covers
>>8045928
Forgot pic
>>8045769
ha ha penis XD
>>8041870
Should have been a picture of dorian gray
>>8045023
oh dear
>>8045846
Bilbo looks like Lou Costello with a perm. Sting looks gay as shit. Gollum looks like Nosferatu.
>>8045341
I could fap to this
>>8045568
W E
>>8046073
Shut up you unoriginal faggot.
>>8046080
Please don't reply to me unless you're contributing to the thread
nigger
anyone else hate this cover?
>>8046054
You just confirmed I'm right because you cracked me up.
Imagine that fat Bilbo/Costello addressing his traveling companion loudly, impatiently: "HOB-BIIITT!!!" a la the old Warner Bros. cartoon spoofs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbit_and_Catstello
This is probably too specific for younger anons but if you'd seen the cartoons, you'd understand.
GOAT
>>8045086
"Hey you"
"Que?"
"Wanna be on a book cover?"
"Que?"
*snap*
>>8046339
based on my understanding it should be
"¿Como?", not "Que?". Still, a very excellent post.
>>8044963
top fucking yek
that's a joke, right?
>>8045591
>English translation
>best version
You disgust me.
>>8046339 killed me
>>8044988
That's a stock image that I first encountered on an iPhone lock screen aggregator clickbait page.
>>8045102
>"The year is L33T"
yeah, uh, no thanks.
>>8041870
laul I am currently reading this book and now I'm wondering what it would be like if Rodion had been a goofy, whimsical Irishman rather than a psychologically unhinged russian
>>8046351
stupid yankee, you know nothing
>>8044963
no fucking way
>>8045727
a e s t h e t i c
>>8045769
Anyone have more of these?
>>8046111
yeah if youre not going to have an image, then why not just make it minimalistic and classy instead of having stereotypical cowboy font text literally covering it
>>8045727
holy shit lol
visionary
>>8046362
It's not, that's the best part
LEWD
>>8041902
>Judging covers by their books
>>8041818
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XALj24n1F2k
>>8048858
No way. kek
>>8048947
>>8041818
That is awful. The cover on the book my dad gave me is this one.
>>8048979
Nice cover, looks like Tolkien's own art style. Note also the absolute geographical accuracy: it's morning and they're traveling east, and indeed the sun's position is exactly right for that.
Chapter 10 intro: "The day grew lighter and warmer as they floated along. After a while the river rounded a steep shoulder of land that came down upon their left. Under its rocky feet like an inland cliff the deepest stream had flowed lapping and bubbling."
>>8049026
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
>>8049026
Yeah It's a Tolkien painting. Dad gave me his box set of the Hobbit and The LotRs trilogy. All of them have Tolkien covers. This one and the Fangorn one from The Two Towers were always my favorites
I got one
If you can't guess it's Home Alone
.. the horror
>>8045023
>The picture of the picture of Dorian Gray
>>8041870
JUST
>>8045610
this is astonishingly awesome
>>8045023
Brendan fraser before and after
>>8046351
i was assigned to read this in college last sem and I haven't read since.
>>8048843
Hahaohwow.jpeg
>>8046018
I read this
3/10, bretty bade
>>8045270
>dr Zeuss
Kek
>>8045610
I genuinely like this cover
>>8046317
I would buy that just for novelty's sake
>>8045342
Samsa should never have been illustrated. The word "ungeziefer" is perfect. Also, why the fucking couch?
>>8041879
Chuck Norris!
>>8047732
>>8051060
At least it's accurate.
>>8051095
That's my second least favourite book by John "Max Resist" Coetzee.
>>8044963
https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Karamazov-Illustrated-Platinum-English-ebook/dp/B017YB4AJ4/279-1381845-6955545?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0
Holy fuck
>>8051179
Oh shit, i actually thought OP made that cover just to troll us. wtf
>>8048979
Nice, I have this edition of the books as well. The 70s ballantine books edition. It's got a little introduction by Tolkien as well. I don't like reading them because the margins are so thin.
>>8045300
Thousands of years of human civilization have all conspired to produce this atrocity
>>8045338
They should just stick to blank covers instead of defacing them with atrocities like these
>>8045300
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B017YB4AJO?fp=1&pc_redir=T1
>mfw it's real
>>8049551
Is that mister T
>>8051067
>>8051442
no what
>>8051403
just from the thumbnail it looked like feels guy
>>8051445
just... no
yet all of you forget that a book is worth for its content, not its cover
shame on you
>>8048947
https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Karamazov-Illustrated-Platinum-ebook/dp/B017YB4AJ4
on the other side it says, "Wilde about the boy!"
>>8051494
A real human bean
>>8047716
Can't be real.
>>8047716
Not an unaccurate cover tho
>>8052925
>What in the fuck, a naked alien babe?
afaik it's related to the plot, but it's not an alien
I didn't understand how terrible this one was until I read the book and got what was going on in the cover
>>8052978
It's a penis?
>>8054365
The Remains of the Day
By the author of
The Remains of the Day
>youdontsay.jpeg
>>8054339
That's the God Emperor Leto II, who isn't supposed to look like a penis, be armless, have a giant face or look high as fuck
>>8048843
pottery
>>8048952
wat
>>8054569
Is this an actual book or something?
>>8054611
I just searched it, it appears to be an original story being posted on someone's tumblr
>>8051179
Hahahahahaha, well done senpai
Can we top that?
>>8051416
This one's cute if you wanted to gift it to a child.
>>8054611
>>8054621
It was first posted on /lit/ actually afaik.
>>8045198
it's real?
captcha: CANTERBURY LIBRARY
>>8041853
I'd love to see a Ricky Gervais riddle scene
"What's in my uh pocket..."
"Your handses"
"Pfff nooo"
>>8045300
So these are just some gutenberg ebooks repackaged with botched-ass covers?
>>8054672
>"I figured you'd shrug coolly"
lol this is great
>>8049081
>Words
>worth
>Classic
Let it end.
>>8054672
>snubnose katana
>>8054745
> snub-nosed katana
>>8054672
>chief sensei
>>8041818
Hey faggot, read your own rules.
That is a pretty good image of Bilbo and how I mentally saw him. And Gollum looks just the right amount of ugly and creepy.
>>8051416
>Mom's gonna FREAK
>>8045270
Fuckin MINIONS
>>8048843
>Trilogy Chronicles
>>8051359
No, it's Senior T
>>8051095
Kek
>>8045453
under god damn rated
>>8054672
>tears of bravery
holy shit
>>8048952
I kinda like it. Makes you think it's pulp then you ohmygodwhynopleaseithurtstogoonliving.
>>8054745
Lmao, I saw that line in my skim reading and literally said "oh my god"
This is something.
>>8056431
It's like they've never read a book and only watch anime
>>8046351
It could be anything at least in colloquial spanish from Mexicans. Que is more appropriate though.
>>8056431
>But not before I kill you...r girlfriend!
>>8051416
this ranks among some of the best things I've seen on /lit/ during my brief stay here
>>8056431
"I didn't faint I had a flashback." Bryce defended himself quickly to show he was obviously telling the truth.
This is an example of the subtleties of the authors characters. Not even Carver had such nuance. It's almost transcendent in how it manages to simultaneously reveal a relationship of sibling animosity and also say so little. It is so artfully crafted that I might have missed the overwhelming theme that Rhyce is so desperate to be thought of as honest that even when Flashbird is about to kill his girlfriend (astounding plot honestly) he makes efforts to prove hes telling the truth.
Masterful.
>>8054672
>quivering cheeks
What would cause his butt to quiver /lit?
>>8056588
anticipation
>>8056588
Bravery
>>8056620
>Paris, the Prince's cousin
>literally the French flag
>>8048943
This looks watchable at least partially unironically
>>8045935
yikes
>>8045446
Hang on a fucking second, that castle is clearly from Japan.
>>8056431
>the rage that burned inside him like a raging fire
>>8056463
Well, they obviously watch American cop films too.
>>8044963
The gay Siamese brothers Karamazov
>>8046317
I fucking love the part when the cowardly lion kamikazes his fighter jet into the swarm of flying monkeys.
>>8041818
I love this thread
>>8057277
hugging your brother is gay :^)
>>8046317
well... wicked witch of the east died a victim of airstrike
![Lost_Princess_of_Oz[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/YwaLq4L.jpg "Lost_Princess_of_Oz[1].jpg")
>>8045727
I have this one and a few others. Why are they all so fucking ugly?
>no one posted The Inferno cover yet
>>8057429
PKD or KA Applegate?
You be the Judge
>>8045846
aint hobbits post to be fat anywho
>>8045935
((whats wrong with it))
>>8041892
Cover isn't really bad it just doesn't have anything to do with the book
I might pick it up based on that though
>>8051416
I can just smell that fresh plastic scent from this cover. I would buy this if it was cheap.
>>8056620
the monkey is my favorite emoji
>>8054789
oh golly
>>8057461
This is a disappointment on many levels. And a shit stain we wont forget.
>>8056615
lmao
>>8056431
>"Oh Rhyce I love you so" said his girlfriend.
>"I know" replied Rhyce smirkingly
>>8056431
How could he cock the hammer twice?
Or worse, did he decock the hammer so that the other vampire could see him cocking it again?
>>8057599
They're meant to be cheap, not beautiful.
>>8057987
They're not gonna get any less cheap by not making them ugly as sin. A bland black cover would both be cheaper and more aesthetic.
>>8058020
Fuck no, man. This way you get something that's visually appalling, yet memorable. There's no such thing as bad publicity.
>>8054672
>Rhyce shrugged coolly.
>"I figured you'd shrug coolly."
>>8041818
Bakker's "The White-Luck Warrior".
>>8056431
>His name was Rhyce Karēi - although he preferred it the other way
>Curry Rice
>>8058310
Can someone post the peach story? That's actually good from what I remember.
>>8058179
MIND. FUCKING. BLOWN
>>8056615
underrated post
Not sure if bad-bad or bad-good.
>>8058027
There is when the publicity will put people off reading the books because they are embarrassingly hideous and no one would dare read them in public.
>>8045894
Is that Egg Benedict on the second cover?
>>8057461
What the fuck? Is this literally the Divine Comedy re-released with images and a 'special introduction from the game's executive producer' to be more tied in to the game? I want to go back to my blissful ignorance 12 seconds ago
>>8058137
Reminds me of this album cover by deathmetal group ADE. At a quick glance it looks fine, but on second look it's absolutely terrible.
>>8058137
>These Teutonic knights from Medieval 2 Total War in the background
>>8045023
>in20years.com
>>8057722
>levels
Nice. Also, nice dub dubs.
>>8058337
Saved this one not long ago.
>>8058310
The Tumblr avatar is the same.
>>8048952
raskolnikov never looked more hot :3
>>8059835
Thanks. This is not how I remember it, though. Wasn't there another page that was actually well-written?
>>8054672
>>8056431
>>8044963
What is this world coming to?
>>8060000
waste of quads
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