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17447247 No.17447247 [Reply] [Original]

>Beats his niece because she isn't going to school

is there a character more based than Jason. Try and tell me one thing he did wrong.

>> No.17447645

>>17447247
Why does no-one produce an edition of TSATF with a decent cover? It can't be that hard.

A quintessentially 'deep south' house+garden is fine, but get the mood right, and don't have two random figures like this.

I am constantly amazed how good the covers are for bad books and how bad the covers for good books. Why is that?

>> No.17447651
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17447651

>>17447645
Are you somehow forgetting one of the best covers ever?

>> No.17447657

>>17447645
Good book practically sells itself because people that already read it will be talking about it. Nice cover will strike one's interest, so by the time you realize the contents are shit it's already paid for.

>> No.17447659
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>>17447645
This one is pretty good

>> No.17447670

>>17447651
I was tempted to post this as an example of a "good and bad" cover. It's at least making some effort to convey the emotional fervour of the work, but it's too idiosyncratic. The book isn't *only* about this feeling, and it's very much rooted in a particular time and place, which this picture doesn't acknowledge.

>> No.17447679

>>17447657
Faulkner still filtering pseuds after 100 years

>> No.17447685

>>17447679
Never read Faulkner, I came in here out of curiosity and mentioned some basic marketing.

>> No.17447699

>>17447679
What are you talking about? That post isn't saying anything about Faulkner being good or bad.

>> No.17447716

>>17447659
Yes, this is OK. But I think it's just emotionally non-committal. Once you've read the book you can say "Oh yes, that fits", but it would fit a lot of other very different books too. It's a bit like having a Rorschach image for a cover.

>> No.17447763

>>17447657
Maybe, but if you're running a publishing house it surely can't hurt to have a good cover on a good book.

I suspect one reason is that bad books are clichéd: their overall tone fits into one of about four categories. (Every single bad fantasy novel is exactly the same, for example.)

Good books, on the other hand, are more individual and nuanced. Their mood is harder to pin down. (TSATF is a great example. As far as I'm concerned the underlying mood is of something precious irrevocably lost. But that's buried deep under a lot of other stuff, and if you try to convey all this with the cover art you'll probably just misrepresent the book entirely.)

>> No.17447796

>>17447247
Trusting stock brokers in New York

>> No.17449168

>>17447247
To get this back on topic:
Jason did nothing wrong. OP is correct.