Thread 24818307

Is there anything worse than a movie cover for a book?

I care more about the material quality of the cover than whatever's printed on it

>>24818307 (OP)
I do agree that it's bad

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but timcham is soo cute

>>24818307 (OP)
Vidya cover

>>24818307 (OP)
I don’t really mind as long as I can get it used for a decent price. That being said I do tend to buy original printings/designs.

There’s an undeniable, mostly irrational, fear of being seen as an NPC for reading a movie cover as if you wanted to read to the book only because you saw the movie. I say mostly irrational because just like reading anything to impress anyone in public it’s a bit of a self-centered view to think that anyone actually cares enough about you to look at what you’re reading or that theyre discerning enough to care if you’re a pseud. Pure vanity really.

But again, i do try to avoid them when I can for this reason so I won’t speak as if I’m above such thinking completely.

>>24818307 (OP)
you're saying you'd rather have some 100year old doodle instead of this majestic poster

>>24818307 (OP)
Yes.

>>24819064
Those are some clogged ass pores on his forehead. Yuckies.

>>24818307 (OP)
a lot of its because bookish types see their corner of media as exclusive and not for the common folk so they get offended when their little corner of the arts becomes a public commodity. pottery. not defending slop consumers but it is what it is.

>>24819115
You should look so good after all those years in prison

>>24819489
I do look much better after my prison stint, thank you. Unlike monty python here I didn’t eat any dude ass in prison.

>>24819064
Where's Caveisel?

When instead of a sticker they print the words 'now a major motion picture' in a big circle smack in the middle of of a otherwise acceptable cover.

>>24819590
go to bed grandpa

>>24818307 (OP)
No there's nothing worse. In fact I am in possession of that very same copy of Dune, my gf had it when we moved in and I started reading it but stopped due to the cover. So I've been thinking I'll buy myself a nice copy with a real cover, was shopping in Waterstones yesterday for some other books I needed and thought I'll see what their copies of Dune are like, looked at it and it's got "NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE" printed right onto the cover. Needless to say I did not buy it. I will probably find an old 80s paperback on WOB or Abe or something.

>>24818307 (OP)
Made the mistake of reading Vineland before seeing One Battle after Another; I might have been able to enjoy the movie otherwise. Horrible adaptation-- essentially attempts to transfer 80's physical energy to the 20's (couldn't buy it) while ditching Pynchon's moral and political ambiguity for a rigid, too stupidly definite duality.
Most criticisms of Vineland here are way off the mark btw; it's one of P's better novels

>>24818307 (OP)
Yes, Corporate Memphis

>>24818307 (OP)
also when it's the regular cover but now has the 'now a Netflix show!' sticker or the movie on like in your image. I hate buying those copies

>>24819064
If they took everything and made it at least 2 seasons long on netflix it would be 10x better than the book no doubt

I always loved this cover and I'm so sad I lost my copy with it.

aye, it's awful, but the cover situation has been clogged in shit for many a year.
look at the cover of today's sci-fi novels and compare them to what was the norm 40 years ago.
the whole sci-fi genre is in the crapper, desu. all that is digestible is being printed independently.

>>24818307 (OP)
Could have just used this one instead.

Literally the second page:
>He was a tall man, thirty-six, born of English-German stock, his features undistinguished except for the long, determined mouth and the bright blue of his eyes, which moved now over the charred ruins of the houses on each side of his.

>>24818307 (OP)
5 year old kids dying of cancer I guess

>>24818307 (OP)
A regular cover but it has a NOW AN AMAZON SHOW logo on it and it's not a sticker.

Have you ever purchased a book from like ebay or amazon or wherever and the picture they used was some classic version but once you finally get it it's the movie cover. I hate that.

>>24818307 (OP)
Yes. A bad TV fanfic adaption

>>24823244
This is just offensive.

>>24822981
I'll disagree with you here

>>24820884
Only correct answer in this thread

>>24819064
I would rather have just the title or nothing at all. The spine alone can suffice for the title of a book and its author.

>>24820913
On some books it isn't even a sticker. It's printed on but still looks like a sticker. Why are customers punished so?

>>24822774
W-why are they looking at me?

>>24822931
He's also so quintessentially german. A drunk. His autistic daily labor of looking for turned humans and driving stakes through their chest in their sleep. His study of natural science. His conflict with his jewish neighbour.

>>24823304
Haha yeah whoops, that's exactly what I meant. a sticker would be incredible compared to that shit

>>24819064
Non-nromie IPs should never EVER cater to normies, normies just eat any slop that's given to them, like pearls before swines, they know not quality.

If they adapted an obscure book that was out of print I would genuinely appreciate having a new physical copy no matter hot shitty the cover. But they don’t adapt obscure out of print books, they only adapt books that have never been out of print.

>>24818307 (OP)
Lynch still mogs that french cunt

>>24818307 (OP)
Fake stickers that are part of the cover and don’t come off.
Literally would rather die

>>24818408
Knowing that Sapkowski resents the games makes it 100x funnier that the covers and art for the books have slowly morphed towards how the games depict things

>>24818307 (OP)
Cover made with AI

I suppose it helps that I like the movie but it still bugs me.

>>24824997
addendum: excluding the hobbit film of course. Good lord even just seeing a movie cover for that really showcases how wrong it was to split it into a trilogy.

>>24818307 (OP)
>Is there anything worse than a movie cover for a book?
An original cover that looks like this and fucking stares at you from your shelf.

>>24818307 (OP)
Yes

>>24824997
I had these movie covers when I first read LOTR and I think this is tasteful as far as movie covers go

>>24825656
Those are good covers though. Movie covers seem to think sticking the actors face all over it makes ppl want to buy

>>24825236
go see a doctor brother you're all swollen

>>24825656
Yeah that's not bad. It works as a movie cover but have it be more of a silhouette isn't so gauche. Kind of lazy to have all three be the same image with different colors but that's an altogether different issue.

>>24825665
Yeah, swollen with rage at how they done my boy dirty