The most beautiful / iconic book covers

The most beautiful / iconic book covers
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I was underwhelmed by the book's content desu, but the cover is iconic and I wish I could another book for the feel depicted on it.

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I thought Egret was the antisemite

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*I wish I could find

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All other covers I've seen look like ass imo

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Isn’t that Nick Land as the cover art?

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I still prefer the Oxford one, but that one's pretty good too. What edition is it?

What? Never seen that one. That looks dope af

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No idea. Here's couple more

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Oh, that's certainly not the best one.

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degenerate art

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absolutely degenerate art

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sexy

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Based series, even the 4th wasn't bad

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Hellraiser meets Eyes Wide Shut

i really like the blue siddartha one, the red don quiote one and the man screaming with flame clockwork orange one

hah no

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Why do you guys always jizzom your pants after this one? It has nothing to do with 2666 thematically, just a well drawn picture that inspires I assume urban ennui and better fit as a cover for Murakami

Oh ayyy fellow island user :33

It's the hotel where the critics stayed in Santa Teresa

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What about this one? I think the Oxford one looks TOO young, like high school age. Also he doesn't look feminine enough.

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fucking sweet

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I like it because it caters to the different aspects of the book. some covers are really dramatic and portentous, and I imagine readers cracking open a novellas worth of pleasant comedy about literary types at the start. But you want the darker content to be reflected too. The party next to a barren waste theme just seems right.

I also like looking into the windows.

pshh

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damn

>publisher name bigger than author name
wut

Good except for that fucking stupid english black text in the middle.

It's where one of the protagonists in part 2 spends nights with a high ranking female policeman? Did you even read the fucking book?

Pleb

nice

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maybe it reminds you of an aztec temple?

Incoming: the best cover known to man.
Classic aesthetics are the best aesthetics. Debate me.

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Based

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Need I say more?

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Umm

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What do those have to do with what I linked?

> debate me
> people providing better covers disorients him

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there is no way this is real

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really love this one

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DOES ANYONE HAVE THE SYMPOSIUM ONE I CAN'T FIND IT ANYWHERE

pic related

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Beautiful

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nice

I like this pulpy feel

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All the cover arts by John Howe. I can't believe that publishers in the US and UK don't release editions with his art anymore. I think Latin America and Spain are the only region where you can walk into a bookstore an buy a new edition of TLOTR, The Hobbit or The Silmarillion with Howe's covers.

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Infuriatingly shit opinion. Devoid of creativity and aesthetics

mostly because of the movie poster it inspired which in turn became one of the most iconic and frequently ripped off images ever

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The novel looks much better

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well good news for you

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Pretty fuckin based.

Wow that's great

This

damn right

whats more kino than the library versions?

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based

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You are the GREATEST God FUCK that image is AMAZING

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all of the ones like this

also all of the similar but even more geometric & ascetic Camus covers

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Love this edition of Suttree. Perfectly encapsulates the feel of the novel 85% of the time

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these are nice

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that one's kind of ugly, too, desu. looks like a grade school textbook from the 2000s

how was *this* the best they could come up with? i'd assume it was YA fiction

His looks are often described as "boyish" in the book, so I imagine it's appropriate. The Vane brother says he "can't be older than 20".

I genuinely despise this cover, the 20th anniversary addition is 10x better and even the original printing’s cover captures the spirit of the book more.

easily one of the worst covers I've seen in years. the first edition was so much better (shadow in the doorway). this looks like something a dog with diarrhoea might make after eating a greasy kebab.

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Now I'm mad that I own the ugly versions of these books

These are amazing

First edition Ulysses
Modern Library's ISOLT
Jesse Ball's Census (Ecco publishing)
Borges' Collected Fictions by Penguin
and pic related

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All top notch, thank you for your service

It's simple but stylish.

Thats perfect

picrel

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Benjamin Constant's classic novel of love and power.

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I like more this one

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you won't be doing much hara-kiri with that wee knife I can tell ya

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Great one
I don't know which book that is but it looks alright, a bit dated
>the
That blue box just clashes with it, shame because like you said the picture itself is iconic
Poor, looks like some self-published thing
These look like those stupid "minimalist" bait posters on Yea Forums
All Asian people look alike
You're a fucking nigger and I'm not going to validate you with a response
What does that have to do with Anna Karenina?
Yeah all the ones from this series are great
Meme
Giraffe neck lookin nigga lmaooooooo
80s scifi shit
Classic
Pretty cool, I've been meaning to read these
Proper solid innit
Based
You're gay for enjoying a picture of a naked man
Dated
>Franz K Kafka
What does the middle K stand for???
Like a gay middle school Facebook meme "if u see panties u have a dirty mind xddd like and share"
A fucking kithcen knife?

>What does that have to do with Anna Karenina?
Have you read Anna Karenina? Trains feature extremely prominently.

This thread is about to be blessed with my superior taste. Multiple covers incoming.

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i like this frankenstein more

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love this one

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I'm not sure if I like this because it's actually a good cover or just iconic

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>Have you read Anna Karenina?
No
I think it should be a picture of the woman, so people have an idea of what they're reading.

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Guys, please help me out. I'm 80% sure there was a great cover of 2666 floating around here, with the cross and skull in the background, but I can't find it anywhere.

What's this Japanese publisher called? If I'm not mistaken, they have also made an equally great cover for Gravity's Rainbow.

Lmao, is this real? Schönenberg (guy on the cover) ended his friendship with Mann because he suspected that Adrian Leverkühn (the protagonist) was based on him

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The other one looks so much better imo

>tfw no Ghibli adaption of Orthodoxy

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Why do the Japs have such a superior taste in art?

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