Terrible Covers for Great Books

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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.

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I hate it when they make a movie of a classic novel and then publish a new edition of the novel with a celebrity actor's face on the cover.

Examples include The Great Gatsby, with Leonardo DiCaprio's face on the cover, and Revolutionary Road, with Leonardo DiCaprio's face on the cover.
 
gveranon said:
I hate it when they make a movie of a classic novel and then publish a new edition of the novel with a celebrity actor's face on the cover.

Examples include The Great Gatsby, with Leonardo DiCaprio's face on the cover, and Revolutionary Road, with Leonardo DiCaprio's face on the cover.
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This is precisely why I have yet to read Stanislaw Lem's Solaris.
 
Nirvana In Karma said:
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.

4B0935_FRT.jpg
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few so subtly note the obvious connections between the black cat and the tell-tale heart...
 
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Acutely decayed said:
Nirvana In Karma said:
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.

4B0935_FRT.jpg
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few so subtly note the obvious connections between the black cat and the tell-tale heart...
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And The Raven makes 2!
 
Seeing Fenris Technique's posting took me back many years.

The famous Barbara Remington cover art for LoTR.

I first encountered battered editions of those works /covers in my local public library, in 1968 I believe, and they were my introduction to the works of Tolkien and fantasy in general, which became a huge influence in my life.

I started on "The Two Towers," since that was all they had on their shelves at the time, and caught up later when I purchased all three. I read them obsessively until my new copies were as battered as the library copies.

But re. the covers themselves, I must have spent more than a hundred hours staring at them when pausing over the books. I still remember thinking to myself that they were "terrible covers for such great works."

Which did not stop me from staring at them.
 
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