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Anonymous Mon Sep 19 23:14:13 2022 No.21014729 [Reply] [Original]

Why does everyone shit on movie tie-in editions? They're cheap/easy to find and it has the exact same text as the regular edition.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 23:15:27 2022 No.21014734 >>21014729 Low mass market paper quality

Anonymous Mon Sep 19 23:42:45 2022 No.21014841

>>21014734
>Low mass market paper quality
Why is that a bad thing? You can throw it in your backpack/pocket/bend it/not have to worry about it getting stolen. Reading expensive books just feels like a chore to me since I'm always worried about damaging it so I can't get immersed in the story.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 23:44:43 2022 No.21014853 >>21014729 that is actually worth it because it's from the LOTR films

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 23:57:23 2022 No.21014902 I want my books to look good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 00:10:23 2022 No.21014945 >>21014729 They’re ugly as sin and take away from the imagination. Books that have little to no illustrations will always look the best.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 00:12:41 2022 No.21014951 >>21014841 That sounds like a skill issue. I read hardcover books at the beach or park or bar or wherever without worry because it's just a book

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 00:13:13 2022 No.21014954 File: 28 KB, 314x475, solaris.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21014729 Movie tie in books look awful.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 00:13:20 2022 No.21014955 >>21014841 They aren't talking about getting expensive books they're talking about getting normal paperbacks Film tie in editions are always terrible quality

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 00:19:08 2022 No.21014976 >>21014729 The covers are ugly as fuck for some reason. The only exception I ever recall seeing was a LotR edition with the Argonath poster as the cover.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 00:19:57 2022 No.21014983 Pic related is the first copy of LotR I ever owned. Before this I would just get them from the library at school. Idk, I think the cover is comfy and I still give it some sentimental value, but it's not my favorite cover ever either.

Anonymous Tue Sep 20 00:21:06 2022 No.21014989
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Pic related is the first copy of LotR I ever owned. Before this I would just get them from the library at school. Idk, I think the cover is comfy and I still give it some sentimental value, but it's not my favorite cover ever either.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 01:00:43 2022 No.21015163 >>21014734 Okay, and?

Anonymous Tue Sep 20 01:03:29 2022 No.21015173

>>21014729
they are bad for readers who haven’t seen the movies but buy these books. seeing Gandalf before the text can describe him burns that image of him on the cover into their minds before they can imagine it for themselves. LOTR is not the best example here but you get what I’m am implying

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 01:32:33 2022 No.21015328 >>21014989 I think I had it. It was giant, really thick

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 01:37:58 2022 No.21015356 >>21015173 I think even before the movies illustrated versions of Gandalf were pretty common choices for cover art for LotR and The Hobbit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 01:55:28 2022 No.21015443 >>21015356 An artists rendition is much different than a still of the actual actor portraying him in the film

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 02:08:27 2022 No.21015503 >>21014729 I have these editions. The paper quality is really bad and the spine pretty much disintegrated from reading it once.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 02:11:50 2022 No.21015525 >>21015503 >The paper quality is really bad and the spine pretty much disintegrated from reading it once. Really doubt you read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 02:20:26 2022 No.21015570 >>21015525 What? At all or that specific book? Why? I read it nearly two decades ago and still distinctly remember the paper being tissue-like and the spine dusting up my hands.

Anonymous Tue Sep 20 03:05:42 2022 No.21015720
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Generally I couldn’t care less, but this one really pissed me off. Hated seeing his stupid mug on a Faulkner classic everytime I went to the bookstore.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 03:08:38 2022 No.21015736 I love my LotR tie-in editions but they were gifts 20 years ago so they've got a lot of sentimental value. Doesn't hurt that the casting was on point so the covers don't look garish.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 03:27:08 2022 No.21015799 >>21014976 That’s the one I have and it looks fairly nice. Fellowship has the argonath, two towers has orthanc, and rotk has barda-dur. It isn’t photos form the movies though, it’s in a painted style.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 03:59:44 2022 No.21015882 >>21014729 They take away the reader's personal imagination to visualise and picture what they're reading on their own.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 20 04:09:28 2022 No.21015914 >>21015570 >paper being tissue-like Yeah, no shit, its paper.

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