I am so unbelievably sick of these ugly kitsch books. Stop putting stupid paintings on everything. Just make a simple cloth bound hardcover like every book that existed 100 years ago.
I'm so of how garbage everything new is. New authors write at an 8th grade level, not only do new books look cheap and tacky but reprints of classic books also look cheap.
Everything is shit, nothing is good anymore. We are in constant decline
It's for women. Women think in pictures and colors.
>classic painting
>kitsch
I hate moronic autists so much.
Its kitsch because it's on my book. That's not the place for it. I don't want to see the Mona Lisa slapped on 3 dollar paperback. I don't want it on the cover of any book at all. It just looks trashy
All books should look like this
Congratulations, your book is no longer 3 dollars
The point of these reprints is to make classics widely available while at the same time turning a meager profit on shit that is admittedly niche. Not to look good on le shelf
good designs
The manner in which the classic painting is cut and plastered on there is certainly kitsch
no
just painting, good.
just book, good.
painting on book bad
Paintings are already a work of their own. They have a message and language for their own, connecting the two does a disservice to both. Really book publishers should put the money in and get a cover made that will actually tell you about the story.
>get a cover made that will actually tell you about the story.
lmao
>Really book publishers should put the money in and get a cover made that will actually tell you about the story.
no no no
NO MORE PICTURES
>Just make a simple cloth bound hardcover like every book that existed 100 years ago.
These are books from more than 100 years ago.
OP BTFO
These are high end collectors editions though, right? Still very pretty. I'd happily own any of these. I'm just tired of going to the book store or going online and seeing nothing but tacky books with art that almost looks ai generated half the time. I don't see why that's such an unrelatable sentiment. It makes me feel blue
>It makes me feel blue
You write like a homosexual
Those are normal books from La Belle Époque.
My point is that the gaudiness OP is b***hing about isn't new.
Still mog penguin trash
in the grand scheme of things Belle Époque is quite new
>These are high end collectors editions though, right?
Shut the frick up. You were fricking wrong, homosexual. That's all it is.
We're not arguing you aggressive monkey, we're having a discussion. Why can't you just share ideas instead of trying to "win" ?
>These are high end collectors editions though, right
No
While the ultra poor had proto-paperbacks and chapbooks these kind of decorated books were pretty common in the latter years of the victorian era. these kind of books were a dime a dozen in the victorian era
while i agree with your points about penguin having shitty covers to imply that all books before the last 50 years were plain is just wrong. around the 1850s decorated book covers became increasingly popular
> to imply that all books before the last 50 years were plain is just wrong
Yeah you're right, I was being moronic and didn't really think it through. I think what I was feeling that made me say that was more that every book in the past looked good and was a book that I would like to have on my shelf. Now most books either make me want to buy me the special custom edition on etsy that doesn't look like shit or makes me just want to pirate them when I see it because it's too ugly to be on my shelf.
It's strange to me because you would think that book publishers would want to make a good looking book if what they're currently making is so ugly that I'll go out of my way to steal it just so I don't have to have it in my house. Either that or everyone likes this and I'm out of touch, which is depressing in a different way
re: Penguin Classics, there’s a certain level of brand loyalty to those books that Penguin & bookstores lean into. Not the most visually appealing book covers, but you can’t deny that they’re immediately recognizable from both the front and spine.
Agreed. Can't find any sellers that do completely solid colored leather bound books either, they all have some sloppy technicolor garbage all over it.
There's this publishing house in my country that likes to put classical paintings on the cover, but they have nothing to do with the books. They're good well-made books, but the choices they make are idiotic.
Pic is crime and Punishment, the painting is of tsar Ivan the Terrible killing his son.
bulgaria?
You don't think the painting captures the anguish of Raskonikov after murdering that old lady? Is there a better painting that does?
The style makes it look like a children's book.
This looks like someone prompted an AI to make Crime and Punishment in Dr. Seuss style.
no? the anguish doesnt come till later dumbass
Read what he wrote. Slowly.
anguish is hardly forefront of the emotions he feels, even at the end. YOU read what he wrote, slowly
You said it came later, and he said it came after. There is no contradiction, pedantic homosexual.
the painting shows anguish immediately after the murder. I suppose it would show how raskolnikov feels at the end, but its a shitty way of describing what actually happens. Black person.
>make romance movie
>put characters from totally different romance movie on the cover
>"isn't it close enough? doesn't it capture the feeling of love??"
moron
>Pic is Crime and Punishment, the painting is of tsar Ivan the Terrible killing his son.
lol
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>penguin classics
well there's your problem
imagine throwing a b***h tantrum like this and expecting to be taken seriously.
I'm taking him seriously and I will no longer be contributing my wageslave allowance to publishers using art on their covers. I will buy exclusively them that have no art on thrir covers and now associate artstrewn paperbacks with thoughtless women and twinkdeath pretransitioners.
persuasion check succesful on NPC
What a nasty, rude, offensive comment. Can you say anything constructuve or are you just the human equivalent of dogshit?
I find it pretty funny that so many publishers use the exact same images for completely different books. I've seen those goddamn portraits of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin and Franz Liszt too many times.
>Penguin Classics
Switch to Wordsworth Classics. They were founded by this guy, so you know they're based.
Wordsworth are great but op wouldn't like them cause they've got paintings for covers
anglo-only problem
>. We are in constant decline
It’s been like that since Europe lost WW2 and anglx saxonex trannies became the dominant cultural force in the world
There is nothing wrong with that cover.
The infantile mind demands the images to stimulate it. True minds require only words and nothing more, this is why such minds are excluded from scoiety
>he needs symbols on a paper to think
lmao try using your brain and tongue, moron
I don't mind the paintings. I like them more than the super gay designs some books have now. I mean look at this shit.
I wish we had a Gallimard Blanche style series for English classics. I'm sure American publishers would ruin it and make it some moronic expensive collectors edition though
Penguin did something similar and simple but not for many books. Either way hating paitings is rancid boomer autism.
That series were excerpts or small works, not full or substantive works.
I support OP and want the books like Galimmard and the black penguin
I had the feeling I'd seen the design of my Swedish translations of Bataille before, now I know where they got it from.
Odd to see this as I was just thinking yesterday about how much I love the paintings on the new penguin classics. W.B Yeats "When you are old" and William Woodsworth "Selected Poems" are two examples I recently purchased with paintings on the front that I think are absolutely beautiful compliments to the works within
A picture is worth a thousand words and, therefore, the cover is a verbose commentary.
>Everything is shit, nothing is good anymore. We are in constant decline.
Right, anon; and even you! Watch yourself fall down.
Why dont they just use the original cover or some variation of the original? It would make it easier tor everyone.
I didn't realize people like OP existed before I got on IQfy
OP you're a loser and you should go outside lol
Imagine complaining about Penguins or Oxfords, publishers that give you a wide variety of classic titles and writers at a dirt cheap price. They don’t even look bad (though I don’t like the new all white lettering Penguins). The spine is the most important aesthetic part of the book and what will be on display most anyway
I won't be purchasing any more Penguins or Oxfords now. It's been revealed to me that their publishing decisions are a corrupting influence on men.
>My taste is cheap and I'm fine with being sexually and aesthetically neutered by a Canadian nail polish magnate.