/lit/ - Literature

>>11073062
Always loved this cover

>>11073084
based

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>>11073017
why is kanji so aesthetic?

>>11073084
I had this printed to hang it in my house

>>11073072
Garbage

Why is japanese design so aesthetic?

>>11073171
post it so we can screencap and post it in the humor threads

unless youre.... chicken?

>>11073255
High average spatial iq

I'm tempted to read this but I bet it won't be as good as the cover.

>>11073511
looks shit desu

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>>11073514

obviously done by someone who had no more intimate acquaintance with the book than reading the title

not that i can blame him t b h

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>>11073529
I don't get this book
Caring less is the polar opposite of what I need, I don't care about anything and just sort of float along and I'm doing terrible

I guess telling some dude in a cubicle to care less and not make his happiness dependent on the corporation he works for because they don't care about him either might be useful

>>11073017

le aesthetic japanese cover

>>11073571
me in the back

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>>11073582
Terrible

>>11073255
fuckin beautiful

>>11073255
Holy fuck I wish I could get this as a poster print.

>>11073614
I agree

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>>11073062
too literal

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>>11073762
too literal

>>11073017
If it looked like this I wouldn't have wasted my time reading it.

>>11073529
>claims to not care
>cares enough to censor the word fuck

>>11073560
Looks like the cover for the YA rewrite. Fucking awful.

>>11073762
Great translation too

Too bad in the western only lefties have good/interesting book design

>>11073762
Amazing

>>11073062
>like wake up bro just open your eyes

>>11073241
That is good

>>11074734
What is this?

>>11073762

Alba is God Tier in covers.

lol this thread is really bad

>>11073565
best one

>>11075351
not as much as this one:
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>>11075120
9780811218504

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>>11073941
Criti
Life,
Hen
Lefe

>>11073786
autism

>>11073529

The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving A Fuck is a far superior book, as far as those kinds of ironically detached self-help books go

Always been partial to this one

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>>11073560
What did they actually mean by this?

>>11073930
I love this one, the one I have might not be as original but its also pretty good.

>>11073084
/thread

>>11073786
faggot

Old pelican covers are the best

>>11073762
Tolstoy would have hated monet though

>>11076715
this, not even ironically

>>11073084
I found this the other day
Everyone else probably already knows but it was a real revelation to me

>>11073072
Even the Wordsworth edition has a better cover than this trash.

>>11076961
holy shit

Guess I'll have to post my jap collection...

>>11076961
the absolute state of book cover illustration

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>>11073062
a bit on the nose but it's not bad

>>11073241
I love it, fucking nice

>>11073255
They're pretty good with minimalism and Japanese looks so beautiful as a language, look at some of their architecture, it's fucking gorgeous, dude

>>11073529
the subtle art of not giving a H*CK

>>11076222
my edition is penguin modern classic and it's literally black and white photo of a bench with a fucking puddle lmao

>>11076888
> running on the blade

It never fails.

>>11076961
they literally just bought the rights to a still image from a film and photoshopped some Edward scissorhand looking motherfucker onto it lmao

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>>11077002
dang nabbit these are beautiful

>>11077030
>they literally just bought the rights

>>11077009
looks like a poster for a feel-good beat takashi film about travelling around the Japanese countryside and recording shoegaze

>>11077035
you implying they just stole it? lmao that's funny too

>>11077045
they hired someone to illustrate the book cover, he presented them this design, they gave it the ok and it went into print

>>11077041
>the Japanese countryside and recording shoegaze
I could feel this aesthetic.

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>>11076940

I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish Wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

>>11073084
based. still need a print of this.

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>>11077008
only good ones ITT

>>11073017
fav in my collection

>>11077241
Yeah okay but why is the yes written in with a sharpie, and why is there a scribble below

>>11077279
The scribble is indicative of Joyce's furious stream of consciousness stylization.

>>11073519
Currently reading it at the moment, what do you think would have been better? A tall white fountain? A dead waxwing maybe? A butterfly?

>>11073241
I actually have Edith hamilton's mythology by that publisher
not nearly as good looking though

always loved these

>>11073560
Never understood these. Are they mimicking some sort of correction to a typo? or like a restructuring of some other texts? if so then why is James Joyce complete? Mandelsund has some pretty cool ones but this is garbage.

>>11073017
>friendly reminder judgments of 'aesthetics' do not mean judgments of the 'beautiful'

>>11077574
I remember seeing this scrolling through Goodreads. It's cool and all but what does Weil have to do with Antigone?

>>11077574
Is that Simone Weil on the cover?

>>11078964
this picture bothers me deeply. probably the fact that the vanishing point is in the very edge.
fuck

I dare you to say pic related isn't the best

>>11079430
Excuse me

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>>11076715
Read the book you twats. The last chapter and ending especially contain the most iconic passaged in modernist/feminist literature.
>tfw two men wrote the most complete pictures of a woman (Molly and AK)

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>>11078441

https://books.google.ca/books?id=7fo8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA277&lpg=PA277&dq=simone+weil+antigone&source=bl&ots=wgTY_Vl1US&sig=pPYOcHflx6M4OOEuuIkCl8ax7R0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsvo-HpePaAhXtuFkKHWcDAKQQ6AEIRjAE#v=onepage&q=simone%20weil%20antigone&f=false

Her's an example but there's a lot more written work comparing Weil to Antigone

>>11079617
>tfw its real

Chinese edition of Robert McCammon's "Boy's Life"

>>11073548
It's like one of those metal gear thingies

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>>11079714
reddit

>>11076961
Holy kek

>>11075120
Siddhartha by Hesse, the New Directions edition I think

>>11080744
Shinkawa is God

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>>11080776
Those are noice.

Folio Society is my favourite

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>>11073582
This cover has nothing to do with die Verwandlung, and nothing do with Kafka

>>11077041
I want to see this movie

>>11073255
that's not japanese

I love the Finnish cover for Crime and
Punishment for some reason
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I also like these
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lol

>>11073017
Too bad the name is not 2727. 2727 is such a beautiful number.

>>11073097
Katakana is more aesthetic in my opinion. I'm sure we can both agree hiragana is shit-tier

Did you take the RAW-pill yet?

>>11082622
I read Prometheus Rising
>dude im gonna be immortal
>*dies*

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>>11073062
fucking awful. are you people serious?

>>11082622
His covers are all so bad. Some printings of the Cosmic Trigger books look OK but that's it.

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>>11076961
And just when I thought nothing could make the cover funnier.

i like jon rafman.

>>11073546
But that's the opposite of what he says, he doesn't say care less about everything, he says care only about things that matter to you

>>11086837
The Hocus Pocus cover is a better fit for Slaughterhouse Five. The Slaughterhouse Five cover is a better fit for Sirens of Titan.

>>11073017
So simple, yet so effective. The book is so legendary that it doesn't even need it's name on it. Kinda like many bibles only have a cross on it or something.

>>11077008
This one is beautiful

>>11087290
i thought that was the quran
for good moment there

>>11077009
Looks like a PC-98 game

>>11076888
not a book, also he's not even running on the blade

move aside

>>11089825
Sucks that all the editions with nice cover art are out of print

>>11090617
Damn, I want to fuck this book

>>11073546

Not what the book is about.

pls

>>11090729
Aren’t there more Mishima books in this style? I think I remember seeing a set. Almost want to buy them even though I can’t read them.

>>11090864
They use the same cover for all four books of the tetralogy

>>11090947
Oh yeah that’s it, thanks

any book covers with this kind of 70's public transitish aesthetic. It's my favorite

>>11090963
whoops that was supposed to be a ?

>>11089092
how is this?

>>11073941
why is it on a block of ice cream?

>>11090617
wild. I downloaded this book years ago, and since then I've seen it with increasing frequency. I thought it was just a little known niche kind of thing.
this is the cover I use.

>>11073538
Made me giggle

>>11085504
this, in one part he himself states that not to go full psychopath and not give a fuck about everything, just give a fuck about what matters to you. a good example he gives is when his mom got fucked over by her friends and he got up and said fuck this mom lets fuck them up. so he did and didn’t give a fuck what happened to her moms friends since they back stabbed her, lawsuits were used in court and eventually won.

>>11073017
It's an urban landscape but get this: it's raining.

>>11073037
It's the title of the book but get this: it also has the title of the book in writing where you can see the entire words.

>>11073059
It's a painting of the artist as performed by a retarded child with a wide brush.

>>11073062
Yeah cool it's the cave, we get it.

>>11073070
It's a circle with a ship on it since Odysseus was on a ship.

>>11073072
It's a picture drawn by a teenage girl in the style of a Good Charlotte album but for a Joyce novel.

>>11073084
It's one of our board's comedians making a funny post.

>>11073511
This one's fine.

>>11073529
Don't cut yourself on that edge everyone.

>>11073565
Pretty decent.

>>11073621
Aesthetic.

>>11076565
Nope. Gay mass market cover that doesn't even have the real name of the novel on it.

>>11082195
I like this.

>>11082417
Interesting mention.

>>11084340
Quite nice. Black and right red always goes nicely together.

>>11089110
Never liked this one.

>>11092686
>>>11073070
>It's a circle with a ship on it since Odysseus was on a ship.
It's a circle because it's an odyssey, ie, a seemingly never-ending journey. It's a stand in for the whole planet. Also it's an O. Good job, retard. All of your opinions are bad-wrong.

>>11092722
>It's a circle because it's an odyssey, ie, a seemingly never-ending journey. It's a stand in for the whole planet.

That is very profound Anon, because the world is a big circle. The protagonist's journey is also a big circle. Make sure you take notes about this interaction we've had regarding the big cover picture being a circle so you can write about it for your community college English class.

>>11076919
oh hell the fuck yes

>>11092740
Don't get all pissy because you can't into the very basics of symbolism without someone calling you a retard online. Maybe if you were less of a retard, you wouldn't need me to explain this shit to you.

>>11092722
It's actually a circle because it's a journey that keeps repeating itself, both in the mind of the readers who read it through the ages and a journey that all humans make (monomyth)
I actually hate jungian babble though so I'm gonna say the big circle represents Penelope's enormous and neverending desire for her husband's cock

>>11092765
>the big circle represents Penelope's enormous and neverending desire for her husband's cock
that's a completely valid interpretation
I don't even think I'm shitposting, considering how much the greeks liked to fucking bone

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>>11092745
Who's saying anything about an odyssey repeating itself? The only other definition for the word (besides the poems) on OED says: "2. In extended use (frequently with lower-case initial): a long series of wanderings; a long adventurous journey."

so don't be a dick when you're wrong ;-3

>>11089825

fight me

>>11092822
>severian as a long haired, shirt-wearing final fantasy twink with a dollar store mardi gras mask
No thanks.

>>11092523
Lafcadio Hearn is a legit great writer who lived a weird life. Very interesting guy.
Glad to see him getting recognition.

>>11092523
Some of his books can be found here also
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cat/srchauth.htm?search_str=lafcadio+hearn

>>11092805
>Who's saying anything about an odyssey repeating itself?
this guy, you dumb motherfucker >>11092765

>all different series of book covers for an author exist
>Only one specific edition from each series is still in print
>Can't buy matching covers without significant effort

>>11082195
Just bought this. What am I in for?

>>11087290
Alhahu Snackbar

>>11092686
It's a shitpost but get this: Oh no wait it's just a bad post.

>>11077012
I see what you've done there

>>11073955
This is gorgeous

>>11073955
gorgeous

Most of the shit you are posting is like those /tv/ minimalistic poster memes except that you guys are not even being ironic. I thought /lit/ of all boards would have at least some taste on aesthetics but boy was I wrong

>>11073955
Simply beautiful

>>11078964
YES

>>11095964
post one you like or don't post at all, bitch

>>11073017
Legends from the Ancient North

>>11092822
While I like that art style they don't really capture the books

>>11073017
I'm surprised nobody has posted this underrated masterful piece of art yet.

>>11076961
>NOT FOR SALE OR DUPLICATION

>>11080689
this can't be real

>>11098012
the artist is a comic artist that draws shit like a guy cutting off his legs and shoving his own massive hose dick up his ass so he looks like the disabled symbol. No way somebody would fuck up that badly.

Very bleh book, but I love the cover

>>11077579
I prefer this one for V.

>>11099457
That was a pretty good gay erotica desu

>>11099486
Do you really like that text? I always hated the "IGN - 10/10" and other self congradulatory messages on covers, it ruins the art.

>>11100287
Well no, it would be better without the text