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Is there anywhere I can find a paperback edition of Knausgaard that doesn't look like this shit?

Also shitty covers general.

The old one was hideous, but this picture of the author shit is worse to me.

>> No.8784297
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8784297

>>8783796
Learn Norwegian faglord

>> No.8784324

>>8784297
Those are still shitty covers, though anything beats authors face on the cover

>> No.8784370
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>>8784324
this is the norwegian paperback, design by yngve

>> No.8784377
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8784377

>>8783796
learn to current year, gramps

>> No.8784378

>>8784297
is the title really a reference to Mein Kampf?

>> No.8784379

>>8784378
what do you think

>> No.8784382
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8784382

>>8784378

>> No.8784391

>>8784378
a little bitty :^)

>> No.8784394

>>8784379
>>8784382
>>8784391
he is a nazi? or is it ironic?

>> No.8784400

>>8784394
Consider suicide

>> No.8784410
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8784410

Still ugly, though. Why do publishers do this?, it's annoying.

>> No.8784422

>>8784394
it's meta-ironic, just read him desu senpai

>> No.8784448

>>8784410
Is this book really the most intensely masturbatory collection of words gathered in one place? Not trolling, but that's what it sounds like from the description.

>> No.8784453

>>8784410
just wait a couple of decades and pengnuin/nyrb will do a reissue with some basic af Munch painting, like every Hamsun book ever

>> No.8784478
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8784478

>>8784453

Stil better than these shitty editions, look at the Spanish ones.

>> No.8784480

>>8784448

Yes
Never read anything so self indulgent

>> No.8784502
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>>8784478
just read 'em laddie, they're fun

>> No.8784524

>>8784382
how can one man be so based?

>> No.8784528

>>8784480
Thanks for confirming. I mean, he is just some guy. He's not like a Nork political prisoner who escaped to the west, or Nelson Memedela or something.

Very audacious title, that.

>> No.8784541

>>8784382
>drinks coke in every fucking book. Never even mentions a Pepsi product
I smell shilling. Fucking karl ove

>> No.8784547

>>8784528
>wow i can't even this male is too white and to privileged to talk about his life

kys

>> No.8784570
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8784570

Blood Meridian got dealt a shitty hand

The first one looks Oprah/mom tier and the second one looks tacky as shit

>> No.8784584

>>8784570
atleast the right one looks nice in your shelf, but yeah shitty cover

>> No.8784585

>>8784547
I get that literacy might be new to you, and correctly inferring meaning from multiple sentences is a step beyond the level of word recognition that you seem to be at.

This guy titles his book My Struggle, and he is clearly not on a level of our beloved Fuhrer, or even a locally recognized symbol of struggle, whether white, Armenian, or a Zionist such as yourself.

Russell Brand titled his books appropriate to the level of depth the reader might genuinely expect. This guy, not so much.

>> No.8784642

>>8784585
>people who name books after other books must have gone through the same thing as the writer of the other book

Nice arbitrary shit you're making up there, family.

>> No.8785706

>>8783796
I like the spine design of those editions, but yah, the cover pictures are pretty bad (except for Book 4).

>> No.8785716

>>8784570
Honestly

just

give me matte tan background with title in There Will Be Blood style font, medium sized, centered

>> No.8785739

>>8784570
>dfw I bought the one on the right

Worst mistake in my life.

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>>8785739
the fucking font is horrid, I prefer the typewritten looking font that's in the older vintage editions of his books. The clean font of the new books is an actual injustice to the text.

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8786396

>>8784297

Danish covers best covers.

>> No.8786397

>>8784528

>He doesn't understand that all life is struggle in Scandinavia

We literally live every single day in defiant opposition to the universe. The sun doesn't rise for four months in the winter.

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>>8784570
honestly, who thought these covers were a good idea?

looks like disgusting genre fiction minus the stock photos

>> No.8786432

>>8786403
this may be the worst idea anybody has ever head, jesus

>> No.8786436
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All 3 of these are god awful.
Vintage does some shitty ass covers
Picador's went from GOAT to shit

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>>8786436
>vintage does some shitty ass covers

They're a real mixed bag. Some of them I like but some are awful or just plain boring.

>> No.8786485

is this book any good? I've had it for a while now on my readlist

>> No.8787933

>>8784480
https://youtu.be/ZQE7AWiFo9s

>> No.8787969

>>8786396
With emoji hearts on the front cover?

>> No.8788010

>>8786396
Oooh, yeah, I like those.

Clouds make good covers, who'da thought :^)

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8788095

Is Karl playing in a band? Is he the Kurt Cobain of our generation?

>> No.8788955

>>8786485
Wait for the film. He's working on a script right now.

>> No.8788979

>>8783796
Every time I see this cover I think it's the guy from Slayer for a second

>> No.8788990
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8788990

>>8784570
I searched blood meridian on google images for the cover on the bottom right but jesus all this cancer

>> No.8788999

>>8786445
b-but muh reddit abstract minimalist covers

>> No.8789007

>>8783796
That picture makes the book and the author look really pretentious.
>>8784478
Cuándo será que Anagrama dejará de usar portadas tan asquerosas?

>> No.8789051
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>>8786436
Those minimalistic DeLillo covers are nice.

>> No.8789083

>>8789051
Gotta disagree with you. Those look tacky as fuck.

That Underworld cover is horrendous. Looks it's playing the circle game with you.

>> No.8789095 [DELETED] 

Covers like this, from an era before graphic artists designing commercial art seemed to have any style, always remind me of the dread of being assigned a book in class that you just have a feeling will be awful. I think works like these were made out of necessity just because the book needed a cover, but what publisher could give a shit about how it looked?

>> No.8789100
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Covers like this, from an era before graphic artists designing commercial art seemed to have any style, always remind me of the dread of being assigned a book in class that you just have a feeling will be awful. I think works like these were made out of necessity just because the book needed a cover, but what publisher could give a shit about how it looked?

>> No.8789105

usually penguin classic covers are amazing except for the penguin classics symbol. I like the idea of a black bottom half and then a top part of classical art depicting the novel

>> No.8789109

>>8789083

You don't know what tacky means, please just fuck off

>> No.8789115

>>8789109
Um. Maybe you're having an off day, so I won't hold this against you anon, but you should think a little bit more before you post like this next time.

>> No.8790579

>>8789083
considering how Pafko At The Wall ends it validates even more why it would look like that

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8790798

>>8784570

Shame pic related is no longer avaliable

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>>8784382

>> No.8790810

>>8786436
Stoner one aint too bad

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8790830

>>8789100
You think the modern you is good though? The designers think theyre going for style and le minimalism is popular but in the end its also trash like >>8789051

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8791155

It was embarrassing to be seen reading this at work, but it was my library'a only copy.

>> No.8791177

>>8788955
ahhh too late, bought it :(

>> No.8791393

>>8787969

That's the review score.

>> No.8791531

>>8790830
I think the potential for better covers is out there, but the potential for publishers to commission boring, trendy, minimslistic covers is also there.

>> No.8792356

>>8788095
he's so based (but look at the empty space behind his books. It's really make you think)

>> No.8792405

>>8786436
What's wrong with the Delilo and Pynchon. The stoner one looks like a stock image desu

>> No.8792425

>>8792405
whats right with them?

>> No.8792464

>>8792425
I meant the covers of those books not the authors

>> No.8792480
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8792480

Just got this

>> No.8792484

>>8792480
Brave New World, btw.

>> No.8792522

>>8790830
This is actually good minimalism though

>> No.8792642

>>8792405
the pynchon is just where's waldo and the delillo doesn't go with the book at all

>> No.8792676

I'm at the part where he talks about his curved dick

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>>8792522
nah its bland. I prefer this

>> No.8792760

>>8792480
I admire it for being different, but the imagery of becoming red-pilled is never not cheesy.

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>>8783796
>Is there anywhere I can find a paperback edition of Knausgaard that doesn't look like this shit?


Whew, lads. If you think the cover looks like shit, wait until you open it.

>> No.8793960

>>8784378
Not really. In Norwegian "Min Kamp" in german "mein kampf" in english "my struggle". Its a perfectly normal thing to say.

>>8784382
Picture probably taken while he is doing research on Hitler and Germany for his last book. (which was very enjoyable btw)
.
>>8784324
fuck you those are good covers

>> No.8793981
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8793981

Is Knausgaard similar to Bjorneboe? I got in to him recently and really enjoyed his perspective.

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8793983

JUST

>> No.8793986
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Polish one. fucking stock pictures

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8793991

>>8793983
Fuck

>> No.8794399

>>8793981
not really

>> No.8794401

>>8793991
Honestly not inaccurate.

>> No.8794403

>>8793983
It fucked me up so much the time I saw this in a real, live, meatspace bookshop.

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8794497

>My heart is full of death and anime

>> No.8795445
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8795445

serbian and croatian edition of first book.

>> No.8795689

>>8795445
How is his name translatable? What does "gard" mean?

>> No.8795820

>>8795689
It's the same thing we do with Russian names - Дocтoeвcкiй becomes Dostoyevsky. Serbs write exactly as they speak.