Let's Judge Books By Their Covers

[The Argonaut]

A thread about design and cool book covers. Here is a personal favorite of mine:


The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
the marionettist caught in his puppets' strings

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[B]

I like it b/c it has boobs on it.

[B]

I went through my last few years on GoodReads and found no contenders.

[run2death]

I was always a big fan of the red carousel horse on the cover of The Catcher in the Rye.

[The Argonaut]

Sometimes simpler is better

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[The Argonaut]

Oh yeah? It's one of my personal favorites

[bart]

Gatsby clearly wins

[bada]

I grabbed this one the other day at a used book store based on the cover and blurb.

[bune]

This is my favorite of all of my library "wtf is that cover, I have got to read it" books. It was the imagery of Rudolph - of course - but also the radioactive symbols falling with the snowflakes and the flames at the bottom that got me. And I have to say it did not disappoint with any of those things.

[hlniv]

I grabbed this one the other day at a used book store based on the cover and blurb.

This is definitely the winner.

[hlniv]

Fors was a mutant. In the wreckage of mankind's hopes, he faced the menace of the Star Men.

[Strat]

[bada]

Fors was a mutant. In the wreckage of mankind's hopes, he faced the menace of the Star Men.

Beautiful.

[epilogue]

Oh yeah? It's one of my personal favorites

Me too. Probably my second favorite book of all time, right behind Beloved.