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27 KB Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)04:43 No.2130768  
Shit covers for great books
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)05:33 No.2130769
That's a great cover.
Better than the purple one with the lips.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)05:33 No.2130770
unsuitable cover but that's a really good photograph
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)05:33 No.2130774
test
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)05:34 No.2130777
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>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)05:42 No.2130786
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>>2130768
That cover is genius compared to the ones used by companies like Tutis, who publish public domain books with completely unsuitable covers.

Pic related.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)05:44 No.2130789
>>2130786
that can't be real.
>Great Classic Series
LOL
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)05:44 No.2130790
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>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)05:45 No.2130791
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>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)05:47 No.2130795
>>2130791
LLLLOOOOOLLLLL
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)05:48 No.2130797
>>2130789
They really exist - just search for 'tutis classics'. A world of awful covers awaits.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)05:50 No.2130799
>>2130786
SHERLOCK HOLMES IS TRANSPORTED TO THE FUTURE?!?!
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)05:55 No.2130802
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>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)05:57 No.2130803
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>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)05:58 No.2130804
>>2130803
These would actually get people to buy them.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)05:59 No.2130806
>>2130791
I MADE THIS YOURSELF
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)06:11 No.2130813
Sauce for the Tutis covers:

causticcovercritic.blog(REMOVE)spot(DOT)com/search/label/Tutis%20bashing
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)06:19 No.2130816
Holy shit. They're real.

http://www.tutisclassics.com/
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)06:23 No.2130819
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>>2130816
I'm tempted to buy one of these just to make sure they actually exist.

It seems too unreal, like the site is an elaborate prank.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)06:25 No.2130820
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>>2130816
Oh wow. I wonder if anyone actually buy any of the books on that site.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)06:49 No.2130827
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I never get tired of looking for new ways this cover is wrong, but as I've come to love it more and more, I mostly just focus on the gimp-mask thought police. I know what's in my room 101, and it's those guys, wearing just the mask, no lube. [spoiler[DO IT TO JULIA, NOT ME![/spoiler]
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)06:52 No.2130828
>>2130827
I like how nobody has sleeves.

Like someday they all just decided they weren't going to cover their arms anymore. A farewell to sleeves.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)06:54 No.2130830
>>2130828
I just spent the last twenty minutes in a You Laugh You Lose thread on /b/ and didn't even chuckle. I come back here and see your post and lose it. Fuck, man. That was funny.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)06:58 No.2130834
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>>2130786


Tutis seem to have dialled it back a little bit, or at least stopped letting the CEOs retarded 8 year old son choose the covers.

Shame really, because that Sherlock Holmes one is fucking genius. If only Holmes HAD been some slab of genetically altered muscle from a spacefaring civilisation of the future. It would have improved The Hound of the Baskervilles no end.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)07:05 No.2130836
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>>2130834
David Černý spoof. Now more Sadam!
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)07:11 No.2130842
>>2130828

Big Brother is Watching Your Biceps.

Shirts are sleeveless. Shirts have always been sleeveless.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)07:14 No.2130844
>>2130834

Actually, I may have spoken too soon because I just saw pic related and my brain almost imploded from the sheer mass of fuck that it suddenly contained.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)07:15 No.2130845
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>>2130844

see how fuck-filled is my brain? Fogort pictoor.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)07:19 No.2130848
>>2130845
Hahahaha. It's the covers like these that make me think it's a joke website.

Kitties!
>> Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ 10/11/11(Tue)09:42 No.2130983
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Was there not a pool scene?
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)09:54 No.2130989
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I'm not sure what that city is, but it's not Oz.

>Mummy? I'm very grateful for the book you bought me, but...
>Yes, dear?
>Mummy, this book is called the Emerald City of OZ, but the city isn't emerald and it looks a bit like St. Louis off the telly.
>I bought it from Tutis classics dear. And you know what they say: "don't judge a book by its cover"
>Fuck you mummy. I hate you. I can't wait until you die and I can have the insurance money.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)10:07 No.2130997
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>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)10:09 No.2130999
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>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)10:11 No.2131001
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I know OP said good books with bad covers, but I can only hope that the sheer shittiness of this cover makes up for the breach of rubric. If not, then I shall kill myself immediately.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)10:27 No.2131022
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Asimov's Foundation Trilogy.

I have another edition for this, that has the trilogy plus Foundation's Edge.

A translation of what is written on the back cover:

"The Galactic Empire, that has exerted its power on all known planets for centuries, is to disappear: it will leave place to 30.000 years of ignorance and violence. Hari Seldon, creator of the groundbreaking science "psychohistory", knows what sad demise awaits humanity. And in order to preserve civilization he gathers the best scientists and scholars on Terminus, a small planet on the edge of the Galaxy: it's the First Foundation, creator of a great empire. The institution is doomed to be destroyed by a terrible and mysterious mutant who enforces a horrible dictatorship. But among the ruins of what has been a beacon of knowledge, it is said to exist, hidden in a far corner of the Galaxy, a Second Foundation. Those who want to destroy it and the survivors of the First Foundation are looking for it desperately. Its destiny lays in the hands of a teenager, Arkady Darrel, who hides a terrible secret..."
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)10:30 No.2131026
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Neuromancer
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)10:34 No.2131042
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Brotherhood of the Grape
>> kosi 10/11/11(Tue)12:20 No.2131181
>>2130997

what the fuck happened here
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)12:21 No.2131182
>>2131181

70s
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)12:41 No.2131203
>>2130768
Does anyone know why these editions never come to America?

I always think they have some of the best covers. Pisses me off a bit.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)12:46 No.2131206
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THE FUCKING LION OF GODDAMN SAINT MARK

http://www.amazon.com/Lion-Saint-Mark-G-Henty/dp/8132045467/ref=sr_1_36?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=
1318351490&sr=1-36
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)12:49 No.2131208
>>2130999
I love the criticism that comes with these and I found this used for $1 and I was so close to not buying it. Utterly inappropriate.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)15:17 No.2131406
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i need to collect tutis classics
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)15:41 No.2131425
>>2130791
That... that actually isn't photoshopped? It's a real cover? I'm not sure whether I should laugh or commit suicide.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)15:57 No.2131448
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Because this book is totally about a suave gentleman rescuing a young woman who looks like Taylor Swift from her marriage with an evil-looking green man.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)16:02 No.2131453
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>>2131448
Then they tried again... dat ass
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)16:03 No.2131455
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>>2131453
Then they did a lot of acid
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)16:05 No.2131460
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They tried a lot of things, but interestingly enough reading the book was never one of them.

THE END.

I like their cover for Ada though
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)16:10 No.2131475
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>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)17:26 No.2131592
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>>2131448

Goddamn, I own this version. Got it for free though!

All my Nabokov covers are shit. Here's another I own. Just goes to prove that old saying...
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)17:44 No.2131614
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>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)19:59 No.2131837
Jesus christ, has no one thought to say it?

YOU SHOULDN'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER.
>> Truman 10/11/11(Tue)20:03 No.2131841
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>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)20:05 No.2131845
>>2131592

excuse me what exactly about this cover doesn't rule
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)20:08 No.2131849
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Piece of shit cover, Does not do it Justice.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)20:12 No.2131853
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>>2131592
I was blessed with coming across this cover of KQK first, and I think it's the best. Even though it has "gayest" written right across the top.

I have that copy of Bend Sinister too, though! It's not so much the image on the cover, but what it's made of that irritates me... it's like plastic so parts of the cover get brittle and break off in chunks. Shitsux.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)20:12 No.2131855
>>2131849

I actually think that cover is perfect.

A pointless, worthless piece of old ireland, surrounded and wallowing in its own words.

Perfect Ulysses cover. The only thing it's missing are the words "THIS BOOK IS A FUCKING CON".

You c/lit/s and your Ulysses. You'll learn eventually I guess. T'choh.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)20:13 No.2131856
>>2130828
I saw what you did... I like it.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)20:26 No.2131864
>>2130834

So is this really the sort of shit Penguin put out these days? We may as well all stop reading.

Classic means nothing now.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)20:29 No.2131867
>>2131849
That's the lighthouse from the beginning, I believe. I have a funny vision of how things went down that day but this is the one image I think remains consistent with most people.

I imagine it with respects to when Stephen walks on the beach in Chapter Three, that lighthouse is always in the corner of his eyes (if he opened them, that is). It's always just round the corner from Leopold Bloom's house, regardless of where it is situated, to me it's all very close together like a small seaside town near where I grew up. I never got how this is an "Irish" or "Dublinesque" text, save for the superficial place names and attention to detail. maybe that was his intention but it was not the effect in my view.
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>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)20:30 No.2131868
>>2131864
It's horrifying that you're not a troll. Its a bad photoshop among the many that we have threads and threads filled with.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)20:41 No.2131879
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>>2131868

Penguin are releasing Peter Benchley novels as "classics", and I'm the troll? Yeah, sure.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)20:50 No.2131886
>>2131879
>obvious pixellation and incorrect fonts

YUP, LOOKS LIKE A PROFESSIONALLY MADE 100% REAL COVER TO ME, CASE CLOSED.
>> Anonymous 10/11/11(Tue)22:05 No.2132005
Any Penguin cover where they put the fucking publishers name like a massive ad over everything FUCK YOU PENGUIN!
>> Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ 10/11/11(Tue)23:59 No.2132255
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>>2131042
>Brotherhood of the Grape
Is that their piss? HAHAHHAHAHA
>> Anonymous 10/12/11(Wed)01:12 No.2132403
somebody post more tutis classics
>> Anonymous 10/12/11(Wed)02:16 No.2132549
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>>2132403
Delivered.
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>>2130803
A cover so good Tutis used it twice.
>> Anonymous 10/12/11(Wed)14:37 No.2133302
>>2132587
dear lord
>> Anonymous 10/12/11(Wed)17:30 No.2133572
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The road looks fine to me.Such laziness is unacceptable.
>> Anonymous 10/12/11(Wed)17:36 No.2133577
>>2131867
Right. In the beginning of the novel, Stephen, Haines, and Buck Mulligan are living in this tower--it does make sense why this cover is chosen (I am taking a course on Ulysses now)
>> Anonymous 10/13/11(Thu)09:43 No.2135255
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>>2132550

Hmmmm that girl looks familiar.

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