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I think derp is right to be disillusioned with a lot of book cover designs, and that one isn't particularly egregious but it is going to date badly in my view. My easy and simple rules for book cover design (completely foolproof) are: 1. The cover should either have a suitable, good cover image with the title in its own clearly delineated section (this book cover cheats by having the words appear in a needlessly empty sky, the bastards. Also I don't like the drawing) OR 2. The cover should be abstract, and thus able to incorporate the title into the image AND 3. Don't try to do anything too fancy with fonts, or have handwritten anything. 4. Don't make the author name bigger than the title Is that so much to ask? Not, apparently, from english language publishers. The german books I own consistently do better design-wise.
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just make all prose fiction covers blue, and all prose nonfiction covers white.  poetry? what am I, made of colors? staple some printer paper into a chapbook or some poo poo
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Apr 17, 2020 01:56
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I go back and forth on deckled edges. 
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 This is the version I got on sale. At least this translation is good, according to what SBB told me.
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Apr 17, 2020 04:02
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It's a very good translation, that's the same one I read.
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Oh, Oliver ready alright
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Solitair posted:
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I prefer this one:
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Burning Rain posted:I prefer this one: lol step aside  disclaimer: i do not deny that this is a perfectly acceptable depiction of a modern-day pechorin
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Apr 17, 2020 12:30
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Yeah, it threw me for a loop, but I immediately fell in love when I read the book.
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People mocked me the last time I criticized those Modern Library covers, but they really are poo poo.     
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I kind of dig the weird cartoon covers because they are not exactly great representations of the book but they are interesting enough as illustrations
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Bandiet posted:People mocked me the last time I criticized those Modern Library covers, but they really are poo poo. Are all of these the same dude? In that case they’re good, otherwise ehhh
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Bandiet posted:People mocked me the last time I criticized those Modern Library covers, but they really are poo poo.  it’s like they’re not even trying with this one
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Apr 17, 2020 14:42
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how long until they do a version of grapes of wrath that is just a grape with an emoji angry face on it
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Mel Mudkiper posted:how long until they do a version of grapes of wrath that is just a grape with an emoji angry face on it firing up photoshop right now
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ulvir posted:
tbf thats a pretty good representation of werther
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I just noticed that the "t" in punishment is a Russian Orthodox cross.
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WatermelonGun posted:that rimbaud one got me good it looks like a youtube clickbait video where rimbaud complains about lag costing him his minecraft hardcore run
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Tree Goat posted:it looks like a youtube clickbait video where rimbaud complains about lag costing him his minecraft hardcore run rimbaud after verlaine teamkills him in cs:go
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CestMoi posted:rimbaud after verlaine teamkills him in cs:go Feu! feu sur moi! Là! ou je me rends–Lâches!–Je me tue! Je me jette aux pieds des chevaux! [demonetized]
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Did Gogol's The Portrait have any effect on Oscar Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Gray? Maybe it's just a superficial shared element, the creepy painting.
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Modern Library Classics always have some random stock photo for the cover, but they feel unbelievably nice to hold while reading, and the bronze spines with too much text crammed onto them kick rear end.
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Heath posted:
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Apr 18, 2020 07:25
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Hard recs to The Caterpillar by Edogawa Rampo which is anti-war literature by way of body horror in the same vein as Johnny Got His Gun but arguably a bit more visceral
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Knew about the movie, didn't know (or forgot) that it was a short story. Thanks for putting it back on my radar; will read at earliest convenience.
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Heath posted:The whole print run of Classics Deluxe editions is like that. They're called French folds, I've got a couple of other ones that have them. I think they're nice. Sham bam bamina! posted:Those Penguin Deluxe Classics are corny as all hell. This thread had a tangent a while back about the literal cartoon heart on Heart of Darkness. My copy of Gravity's Rainbow is the Classic Deluxe with Frank Miller's coverart. It is minimal and therefore tasteful, thankfully. I'm done with Part 1 of Gravity's Rainbow. I must say reading pages and pages with only a generally correct sense of what's going on has been bizarre. I think to digest the material better I'm going to read analysis of each Part before going on to the next.
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Gravity's Rainbow is a book about approximation, confusion, and journeys leading nowhere. If you try to scientifically understand its atomic elements you are becoming the villain of your own reading. With that said, enjoy it however you like.
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Well, I finished Mason & Dixon last week. In some ways I liked it more than GR, in that it had a lot of heart. Really got me a few times. Also I'm very leery of straight lines now. Among the many things the book does, it takes that kind of mind expanding chaotic kabbalistic realizing a million tings at once and catching horrible glimpses of how they mesh together, and instead of applying it to war and business and sex and bureaucracy to does it to geography and electricity and the very idea of layered meaning and information as energy itself. Great poo poo. Gonna do Against the Day next, but taking time between Pynchon doorstops to smash some other books. Reading The Magus by John Fowles, whcih I found a great old paperback of from the 70s. Would Fowles belong here? The Collector was, to my memory, extremely good and pretty literary. Not quite sure where this one is going just yet.
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i know it's dumb to read a book you're not really 'enjoying' especially a 900 page one but I've also finished part 1 of GR and since my reaction has largely been "uh huh. okay. uhhh... sure? what?" for the first 200 pages I'm not exactly champing at the bit to read the next 700 like it's not a "hard" book in the way that I thought it might be, where I'm struggling to figure out what's going on at any one moment (usually), i just keep asking myself why I should care.
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doug fuckey posted:i know it's dumb to read a book you're not really 'enjoying' especially a 900 page one but I've also finished part 1 of GR and since my reaction has largely been "uh huh. okay. uhhh... sure? what?" for the first 200 pages I'm not exactly champing at the bit to read the next 700 Part 2 is really where it picks up, though. Part 1, which still has a lot of great moments, is largely setting up all the pieces for the rest of the book.
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Apr 18, 2020 21:36
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Yeah you gotta read about Slothrop in the Zone
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after finishing to the lighthouse (which does get a lot easier in Time Passes) i moved on to ali smith's seasons quartet and those are good books and appropriately kafkaesque for anything set in contemporary britain - or at least Autumn is, haven't read the others yet
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Franchescanado posted:Part 2 is really where it picks up, though. Part 1, which still has a lot of great moments, is largely setting up all the pieces for the rest of the book. Ditto. Part 2 was a fun page-turner and even had a central character. I felt rewarded when the giant octopus attacked and my suspicions of it being staged turned out true, as that wasn't just some wacky moment Pynchon threw in but actually had a set up in Part 1. Obvious, perhaps, but what it meant is that there is causality, at least so far, in the book. To me that's important. Pynchon isn't just loving off all the time.
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This is the best Classics cover design I've ever seen.
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Thomas “Toilet Paper” Pynchon
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