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Post by dem on Jun 4, 2016 10:32:47 GMT
Somehow, I doubt you get the same level of commitment to excellence these days.  Cover photography by Robert Golden. But ... #modernbookcoversaregenerallyrubbish |
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Post by valdemar on Aug 11, 2016 23:12:56 GMT
My cover for that would be a big blender jug full of red gloop, with parts of a shoe visible, and, underneath, in big type, the single word:
'GUESS'.
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Post by dem on Feb 8, 2021 17:07:47 GMT
Not had one of these for a while, so how about this, from the people who brought us Strange Stories from Devon. Peter Underwood - Mysterious Places (Bossiney, 1988) Blurb: In Mysterious Places Peter Underwood, President of the Ghost Club, visits locations that ‘seem to have been touched by a magic hand’. The haunted old prison at Bodmin in Cornwall and a farm near Winkleigh in Devon where a strange three-way agricultural suicide took place in 1975 are just two such settings. He also writes of eerie happenings on the edge of Exmoor and a strange discovery in the New Forest. Mr Underwood, who has been called Britain's no.1 ghost hunter, visits ghostly Leigh Woods in Avon and speculates on the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, and reflects: ‘We live in a very mysterious world . . .’ |
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Post by helrunar on Feb 8, 2021 22:12:26 GMT
Thanks for alerting me to another hilarious thread! Some of these are really groan-worthy (and a few are actually funny). That edition of Daughter of Fu Manchu--looks as if the contracted artist bailed and they were stuck with some toffee-nosed art-school drop out who want to "make a statement." Dreadful.
I actually think the Mysterious Places cover has an element of intrigue simply because of the energy exuded by the stones. Not at all eye-catching but doesn't rate as "boring" to this reader... granted, I am a weirdo, so...
cheers, H.
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Post by pulphack on Feb 9, 2021 9:22:25 GMT
Not here you ain't Steve. That's why we love you. You're in good company...
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Post by dem on Feb 9, 2021 10:43:48 GMT
I actually think the Mysterious Places cover has an element of intrigue simply because of the energy exuded by the stones. Not at all eye-catching but doesn't rate as "boring" to this reader... granted, I am a weirdo, so... To be honest, I did kind of wonder if Mysterious Places deserved inclusion on this thread. Probably a mistake to reproduce the back cover as, for me, it detracts from the magnificent dullness, though I appreciate 'boring' is in the eye of the beholder. I'd certainly take any of the covers on this thread over anything sh*tterst*ck or the like have to offer. |
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Post by bluetomb on Feb 11, 2021 2:48:55 GMT
I'm on the side of really liking that Daughters of Fu Manchu cover, though I've not read it and assume it is not a good representation. I'm not an art guy though, I just like stark white backdrops because I find them trippy and compositions with clear lines because they remind me of studying vase paintings for Classical Civilisation AS, and I think the figures are well done. It makes me think of the kind of quasi mystical 70's esoterica that I like a lot.
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 11, 2021 10:16:26 GMT
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Post by Dr Strange on Feb 11, 2021 13:46:57 GMT
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Post by peedeel on Feb 11, 2021 14:08:21 GMT
Much as I love what Wordsworth do, this is is less than inspired - 
I'm afraid my eysight's not as good as it once was - it took me awhile to identify (what I thought was dog poo) as a paw print! |
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Post by dem on Feb 23, 2024 12:36:52 GMT
Artwork has not been chosen yet as we've been very busy with new covers on our Classics (unfortunately Three Men In A Boat hasn't had the makeover treatment yet...) Emma Sorry, Emma, I just had to look it up ...  Becky Surridge |
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Post by andydecker on Feb 23, 2024 16:45:32 GMT
Here are two current German editions of Jerome. Frankly I was astonished that this is still available in different translations.
One is a cheap Ebook only edition. The other is over-priced. While both are somehow missing the point :-) I like the atmosphere. way better than the poor three lost Amish in a concrete channel. |
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Post by toff on Feb 23, 2024 20:14:41 GMT
Was Lie Down In Me, the book that began this thread back in 2008, ever made into a "major film" as the cover boasted that it would? I don't see anything by that title or any Andrew Jolly that seems to match the author. Was it an entirely empty claim, I wonder, or there was truth to it but it simply fell through? The book did get some decent reviews: archive.org/details/bookreviewdigest1971unse/page/700/mode/2up Including a portion of a review on the cover in the same font, with the same font size, as the title and author was really something. |
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