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>be me
>pre order new Penguin Random House release of Frankenstein book because the cover is beautiful (and I've never read the 1818 version)
>arrives
>fucking Netflix advertisement on cover
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I was expecting picrel
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>>24814108
A 16 year old girl wrote this, they told me, with no material help from her famous poet husband.

Alas, my toast is burning.
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>>24814108
Return it and pick up any number of hardcover editions used for less than a shitty paperback. Why not an illustrated edition at that? It’s time to leave this kind of book behind.
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>>24814125
I've already returned it, but I'm still fucking pissed.
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https://discord.gg/fu9eSvb3
Uhh join pls, there are literature discussions and instances of demoniac schizo rambling.
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>>24814120
She also wrote the last man, it makes more sense once you learn of her marriage troubles.
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>>24814125
>used
fuck no
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What's the difference between the texts?
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>>24814193
Faggot.
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>>24814108
Hello anon, I too share your pain, are you also perhaps, a beautiful female bookfu, and would like to spend days together reading passages back and forth?
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>>24814108
>cover is beautiful
You're a fag with shit taste.
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>>24814120
I began writing a reply assuming your post to be true only to discover that you deceived me
>Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying inBath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20.
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>>24814775
show me a better Frankenstein cover, jackass
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>>24814830
Okay what next?
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>>24814890
>folio shit
kill yourself
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>>24814108
>shortened front cover
>netflix/new hit movie tag
>sell first few books in a series in a certain style/layout and then stop for the end of the series
>text fills approx. 40% of the page
makes me incredibly mad
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>>24814963
>poor
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>>24814193
Woman moment.
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>>24814120
Women can write good books
read Children Of Men by Phyllis Dorothy White
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>>24814108
>because the cover is beautiful
I don't like it
>fucking Netflix advertisement on cover
I hope it's a sticker. That's a real pet peeve of mine
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I bought the Peter Pauper edition and I love it. The hard cover, the gilded pages, even the texture of the paper is great.
>>24814108
Is it a sticker or is it on there forever?
>>24814117
You could always print this out as a dust jacket. You could even erase the "introduction" and "1818 text" part.
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>>24814890
goddamn Folio Society is the biggest meme in publishing. They would be better off using AI art. It's better than the "professional illustrators" they hire.
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>>24815020
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>>24815016
I need to get a new copy to read. I generally try to read one of the classic monster stories every halloween.
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>>24815026
I don't think I understand the appeal of these. I've seen a lot of very good cheaper hardcover editions. Maybe I just don't have enough to really judge but what makes a book 100 dollar good? I think I'd be worried about wrecking it.
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>>24814975
>wastes his money on shitty books
shut the fuck up
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>>24814993
Let me guess. Your wife wasn't a virgin when you met her?
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>>24814610
kill yourself
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>>24815012
>>24815016
It's not a sticker :(
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>>24815026
yeah, and he're the shitty, shitty illustrations inside. Honestly. It would be better without illustrations if this is the shit they're going to put inside.
>>24815027
I recommend an Everman's Library of Poe's stories.
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>>24815051
You're telling me this is from a $100 copy of a public domain book?
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>>24815051
And here's Folio Society's current edition of Frankenstein. The illustrations are like something a high school girl would make. I just don't get it. Where do they find these artists? Who approves these illustrations?
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>>24815049
>It's not a sticker :(
Well then I'd get my money back.
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Why are publishing companies so gay?
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>>24815101
I don't even like it when the cover of the book is a screen shot from the movie.
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>>24815101
How long are they gonna keep the motion picture shit on there?
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>>24814993
This. Who without a vagina or proclivity for gay sex would recoil from a used book?
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>>24814108
This issue can't affect EPUBs
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>>24815740
I bought a like new copy of the complete works of HP Lovecraft recently and the Dunwich Horror has what looks to be a dried pool of blood that bled through like 20 pages.
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>>24815758
Perfect



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