Thread 24814108

>be me
>pre order new Penguin Random House release of Frankenstein book because the cover is beautiful (and I've never read the 1818 version)
>arrives
>fucking Netflix advertisement on cover

I was expecting picrel

>>24814108 (OP)
A 16 year old girl wrote this, they told me, with no material help from her famous poet husband.

Alas, my toast is burning.

>>24814108 (OP)
Return it and pick up any number of hardcover editions used for less than a shitty paperback. Why not an illustrated edition at that? It’s time to leave this kind of book behind.

>>24814125
I've already returned it, but I'm still fucking pissed.

https://discord.gg/fu9eSvb3
Uhh join pls, there are literature discussions and instances of demoniac schizo rambling.

>>24814120
She also wrote the last man, it makes more sense once you learn of her marriage troubles.

>>24814125
>used
fuck no

What's the difference between the texts?

>>24814193
Faggot.

>>24814108 (OP)
Hello anon, I too share your pain, are you also perhaps, a beautiful female bookfu, and would like to spend days together reading passages back and forth?

>>24814108 (OP)
>cover is beautiful
You're a fag with shit taste.

>>24814120
I began writing a reply assuming your post to be true only to discover that you deceived me
>Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying inBath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20.

>>24814775
show me a better Frankenstein cover, jackass

>>24814830
Okay what next?

>>24814890
>folio shit
kill yourself

>>24814108 (OP)
>shortened front cover
>netflix/new hit movie tag
>sell first few books in a series in a certain style/layout and then stop for the end of the series
>text fills approx. 40% of the page
makes me incredibly mad

>>24814963
>poor

>>24814193
Woman moment.

>>24814120
Women can write good books
read Children Of Men by Phyllis Dorothy White

>>24814108 (OP)
>because the cover is beautiful
I don't like it
>fucking Netflix advertisement on cover
I hope it's a sticker. That's a real pet peeve of mine

I bought the Peter Pauper edition and I love it. The hard cover, the gilded pages, even the texture of the paper is great.
>>24814108 (OP)
Is it a sticker or is it on there forever?
>>24814117
You could always print this out as a dust jacket. You could even erase the "introduction" and "1818 text" part.

>>24814890
goddamn Folio Society is the biggest meme in publishing. They would be better off using AI art. It's better than the "professional illustrators" they hire.

>>24815016
I need to get a new copy to read. I generally try to read one of the classic monster stories every halloween.

>>24815026
I don't think I understand the appeal of these. I've seen a lot of very good cheaper hardcover editions. Maybe I just don't have enough to really judge but what makes a book 100 dollar good? I think I'd be worried about wrecking it.

>>24814975
>wastes his money on shitty books
shut the fuck up

>>24814993
Let me guess. Your wife wasn't a virgin when you met her?

>>24814610
kill yourself

>>24815012
>>24815016
It's not a sticker :(

>>24815026
yeah, and he're the shitty, shitty illustrations inside. Honestly. It would be better without illustrations if this is the shit they're going to put inside.
>>24815027
I recommend an Everman's Library of Poe's stories.

>>24815051
You're telling me this is from a $100 copy of a public domain book?

>>24815051
And here's Folio Society's current edition of Frankenstein. The illustrations are like something a high school girl would make. I just don't get it. Where do they find these artists? Who approves these illustrations?

>>24815049
>It's not a sticker :(
Well then I'd get my money back.

Why are publishing companies so gay?

>>24815101
I don't even like it when the cover of the book is a screen shot from the movie.

>>24815101
How long are they gonna keep the motion picture shit on there?

>>24814993
This. Who without a vagina or proclivity for gay sex would recoil from a used book?

>>24814108 (OP)
This issue can't affect EPUBs

>>24815740
I bought a like new copy of the complete works of HP Lovecraft recently and the Dunwich Horror has what looks to be a dried pool of blood that bled through like 20 pages.

>>24815758
Perfect

>>24815758
>as I beheld the contents of that queer book a new blasphemy unveiled
>not 100 pages in i saw the stain, that first appeared black yet through the flickering candlelight soon betrayed traces of red
>the unmistakable aspect of blood
>i could barely focus as further investigation showed the queer book had drawn that blood within itself like an abyss of horror with each new page revealed another blot
>unspeakable acts too strange to mention flooded my consciousness as i sought to answer why someone would have defiled the volume in such a way
>nameless cults and their blood rites over books held under lock and key in arkham
>oh would that my eyes had never settled on that unholy volume, nor my greed bound me to its purchase

>>24815710
It will probably be at least a few years. Especially with the next movie coming out. Movie covers are a plague.

>>24815758
Which site did you buy it on?

I've got this copy and it's all I really need tb h.

>>24816758
That paining has nothing to with Frankenstein.

Really nice design. Advertising on a book cover is such a self-help genre cheap shit to do.

>>24816758
Wtf.. is this real? Am I being trolled. Why is the Zarathustra cover being used for Frankenstein?

>>24818082
Educate yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog

>>24814108 (OP)
>Franken
>Stein
>is a golem
Checks out

>>24819088
kek

my emily dickinson collection came with an ad on the cover for a hulu show about her life with fucking wiz khalifa in it. this shit is a nightmare.

>>24820109
i recommend picrel

>>24820221
Emily getting dicked, son

>>24820547
Nah, wrong book. Emily Dick in Son is about a stunning and brave trans woman who adopts and grooms a young boy.

>>24814157
Qrd?

>>24815101
Look who runs the industry

>>24814157
Wow, you weren't kidding

>>24820565
it's the opposite of the übermensch

>>24820221
Lol, did they just give the girl some dude's feet because they dont understand ballgowns hide feet?

>>24814890
bit miserable innit

>>24818030
This design is really clever.

>>24822509
it's not a bllagown

>>24824020
*ballgown