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The Argonaut
 Post subject: Let's Judge Books By Their Covers
PostPosted: Tue September 04, 2018 10:25 pm 
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A thread about design and cool book covers. Here is a personal favorite of mine:

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The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
the marionettist caught in his puppets' strings

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I like it b/c it has boobs on it.

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I went through my last few years on GoodReads and found no contenders.

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I was always a big fan of the red carousel horse on the cover of The Catcher in the Rye.
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i really hate that book
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Oh yeah? It's one of my personal favorites

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Gatsby clearly wins
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I grabbed this one the other day at a used book store based on the cover and blurb.
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This is my favorite of all of my library "wtf is that cover, I have got to read it" books. It was the imagery of Rudolph - of course - but also the radioactive symbols falling with the snowflakes and the flames at the bottom that got me. And I have to say it did not disappoint with any of those things.
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bada wrote:
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I grabbed this one the other day at a used book store based on the cover and blurb.


This is definitely the winner.
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Fors was a mutant. In the wreckage of mankind's hopes, he faced the menace of the Star Men.
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hlniv wrote:
Fors was a mutant. In the wreckage of mankind's hopes, he faced the menace of the Star Men.



Beautiful.
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The Argonaut wrote:
Oh yeah? It's one of my personal favorites

Me too. Probably my second favorite book of all time, right behind Beloved.
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