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Old 10-09-2016   #71
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I worry about the person who approved this cover.
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I worry about the person who approved this cover.
This might be an ironic move on the publisher's part: there's no hero in our time, just wannabe hipster acting tough.

I don't think I've seen this one here yet. I can imagine someone picks this up in hope of some medieval erotica, and find...Edgar Allan Poe.

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Re: Terrible Covers for Great Books
Not very accurate but, to be honest I like that second cover
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It's a picture of Jane Fonda from the Poe omnibus film Spirits of the Dead.
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I did not read Tarzan and I do not know if it is any good, but it is indeed a classic.
Tarzan of the Apes and Tarzan the Terrible, for example, are masterpieces!
E. R. Burroughs's books should not be neglected as mere boys' adventure fiction. He had a great mind, was philosophical. A very fertile, generous artist. Always passionate, never lukewarm, giving everything of himself.
The first three Barsoom books contain many glorious moments.





Tarzan looks like an alcoholic, and the monkey on his back seems half deceased.
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It has become unfashionable to enjoy adventure writers such as him and Robert E. Howard. Adventure fiction must instead be lathered in noxious ironic distance to impress critics. Wacky, zany and oh-so-marketable eccentricity beats any kind of sincerity.

I am feeling miserable today. More wine is in order, perhaps.
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Posting covers of illiterate pulp and self-published novels is just picking low-hanging fruit, so I thought it would be interesting to make a thread dedicated to bad covers of "great" books.

This eldritch abomination is a slight collection of Poe stories and poems intended for secondary education students. The annotations are even more abysmal; will post if I can find some of them online as don't possess a copy.
Please tell me this is fake.
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I did not read Tarzan and I do not know if it is any good, but it is indeed a classic.
Tarzan of the Apes and Tarzan the Terrible, for example, are masterpieces!
E. R. Burroughs's books should not be neglected as mere boys' adventure fiction. He had a great mind, was philosophical. A very fertile, generous artist. Always passionate, never lukewarm, giving everything of himself.
The first three Barsoom books contain many glorious moments.



Tarzan looks like an alcoholic, and the monkey on his back seems half deceased.
"NO MISTER JIMBLES, THERE BE NO MILK HERE! CEASE, OR I'LL MAKE A MERKIN OF YOU LIKE I DID YOUR PAPA!"
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Re: Terrible Covers for Great Books
This one has a shine to it.

"Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are. In other words, how do you fill out an empty life? With women, books, or worldly ambitions? No matter what you do, the starting point is boredom, and the end self-destruction. The emblem of our fate: the sky teeming with worms. Baudelaire taught me that life is the ecstasy of worms in the sun, and happiness the dance of worms."
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