Really dreadful book covers

[billtheburger]

I think this Chinese book has misprinted the romanised title of this book:

[marquis_de_sad]

I think they're referring to Jordan's cooking ability, you lacist.

_{Incidentally, the book has the seemingly serious title "Basketball Study Skills" and promises "correct rules and explanations of theories of technique" and to "practically demonstrate the rudiments of technique". It also says "}

Spoiler alert

FRYING GOD

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" in case you didn't notice.[/sub]

[billtheburger]

& that is the actual book cover.
I've not skillfully tampered it for a shitty joke.
I just found it at work and scanned the cover.

[billtheburger]

[Smeraldina Rima]

[Glebe]

How one Fighting Fantasy classic is represented in the Land of the Rising Sun:

[Famous Mortimer]

She looks like she walked in on her flatmate having sex.

[billtheburger]

I rediscovered that book in December and my first thought was "quick stick it in the dreadful book covers".
I scanned it.
Uploaded it to photobucket.
Searched for this thread.
Lo & behold, it was already here.

[billtheburger]

Lord of The Flies:


This represents a literal translation of the text "a great ape" - there are no gorillas (or apes, really) in Lord of the Flies.

[Custard]

Not a book, but this week's NME is quite the eyesore

[marquis_de_sad]

What is the name of that type of illustration? Hipster puke?

[Dannyhood91]

My new arch-nemesis

[Pit-Pat]

Christ yes, the man is obscene in his weird, glassy handsomeness.

Those Uncle Ben's adverts on Facebook that he fronts are so horribly unnatural - he looks like a man digitally engineered to be sexy and unthreatening.

[Serge]

Hell yes, I was unaware of the fucker until we started selling shitloads of them at work. I think I'm right in saying that the first 'Lean In 15' book is the bestselling book of the year so far. I might do a book called 'Fat In 5' with pictures of me eating a mixed grill on every page.

[Pit-Pat]

Hell yes, I was unaware of the fucker until we started selling shitloads of them at work. I think I'm right in saying that the first 'Lean In 15' book is the bestselling book of the year so far. I might do a book called 'Fat In 5' with pictures of me eating a mixed grill on every page.

Aren't you worried that the majesty of the occasion befits it occupying a finite moment in time?

I worry that capturing your mixed grill eating for posterity would reduce it somehow.

[Icehaven]

My new arch-nemesis

Mark Ruffalo's done himself up, possibly in preparation for that all-star Hollywood version of Jesus Christ Superstar the world's not been waiting for.

[Serge]

Aren't you worried that the majesty of the occasion befits it occupying a finite moment in time?

I worry that capturing your mixed grill eating for posterity would reduce it somehow.

I think if I mix it up with pictures of me eating fish & chips, pork pies and swiss rolls that that will help matters. With occasional shots of me being carried away from the table on a flatbed truck to go and sleep it off.

[Serge]

Something that we've remarked on at work a few times - why have so many thrillers got black and yellow covers these days?






If you stack them all together it makes for one hell of a bland display. 'The Girl On The Train' nearly goes this way, but does have a splash of red which nearly saves it. Though it does fall into the other trap for modern thriller writers - that of having the word 'Girl' in the title rather than 'Woman', given that the person being referred to is usually an adult.

[mothman]

I recall Private Eye having s recurring feature on recurring design tropes in current popular fiction. Shadowy distant figures walking to it from your POV was one.

[Serge]

Oh yeah, that's a very common one. I noticed that becoming a theme on a fairly recent rejacketing of all the Jo Nesbø books:





I don't mind them so much, I really disliked the ones before which would usually have a woman looking mildly worried on the cover, which reached their nadir with 'The Leopard', with a cover that makes it look like a Martina Cole novel and certainly makes me think that whoever designed it has never read the book:

[marquis_de_sad]

Disappointing to see that the shit Banksy style is still persisting: