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
Re: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
Posted: Tue September 04, 2018 10:27 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
Posted: Tue September 04, 2018 10:56 pm
by B
I like it b/c it has boobs on it.
Re: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
Posted: Tue September 04, 2018 11:01 pm
by B
I went through my last few years on GoodReads and found no contenders.
Re: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
Posted: Tue September 04, 2018 11:06 pm
by run2death
I was always a big fan of the red carousel horse on the cover of The Catcher in the Rye.
Re: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
Posted: Tue September 04, 2018 11:07 pm
by The Argonaut
Sometimes simpler is better
Re: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
Posted: Tue September 04, 2018 11:08 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
Posted: Tue September 04, 2018 11:19 pm
by The Argonaut
Oh yeah? It's one of my personal favorites
Re: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
Posted: Wed September 05, 2018 12:07 am
by bart
Gatsby clearly wins
Re: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
Posted: Wed September 05, 2018 12:20 am
by bada
I grabbed this one the other day at a used book store based on the cover and blurb.
Re: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
Posted: Wed September 05, 2018 3:21 am
by 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.
Re: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
Posted: Thu September 06, 2018 5:11 pm
by hlniv
bada wrote:
I grabbed this one the other day at a used book store based on the cover and blurb.
This is definitely the winner.
Re: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
Posted: Thu September 06, 2018 5:13 pm
by hlniv
Fors was a mutant. In the wreckage of mankind's hopes, he faced the menace of the Star Men.
Re: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
Posted: Thu September 06, 2018 5:23 pm
by Strat
Re: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
Posted: Thu September 06, 2018 5:58 pm
by bada
hlniv wrote:Fors was a mutant. In the wreckage of mankind's hopes, he faced the menace of the Star Men.
Beautiful.
Re: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
Posted: Thu September 06, 2018 10:31 pm
by epilogue
The Argonaut wrote:Oh yeah? It's one of my personal favorites
Me too. Probably my second favorite book of all time, right behind Beloved.
