>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
I was expecting picrel
>>24814108A 16 year old girl wrote this, they told me, with no material help from her famous poet husband.Alas, my toast is burning.
>>24814108Return 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.
>>24814125I've already returned it, but I'm still fucking pissed.
https://discord.gg/fu9eSvb3Uhh join pls, there are literature discussions and instances of demoniac schizo rambling.
>>24814120She also wrote the last man, it makes more sense once you learn of her marriage troubles.
>>24814125>usedfuck no
What's the difference between the texts?
>>24814193Faggot.
>>24814108Hello 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?
>>24814108>cover is beautifulYou're a fag with shit taste.
>>24814120I 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.
>>24814775show me a better Frankenstein cover, jackass
>>24814830Okay what next?
>>24814890>folio shitkill yourself
>>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 pagemakes me incredibly mad
>>24814963>poor
>>24814193Woman moment.
>>24814120Women can write good booksread Children Of Men by Phyllis Dorothy White
>>24814108>because the cover is beautifulI don't like it >fucking Netflix advertisement on coverI hope it's a sticker. That's a real pet peeve of mine
I bought the Peter Pauper edition and I love it. The hard cover, the gilded pages, even the texture of the paper is great. >>24814108Is it a sticker or is it on there forever? >>24814117You could always print this out as a dust jacket. You could even erase the "introduction" and "1818 text" part.
>>24814890goddamn 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.
>>24815020
>>24815016I need to get a new copy to read. I generally try to read one of the classic monster stories every halloween.
>>24815026I 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.
>>24814975>wastes his money on shitty booksshut the fuck up
>>24814993Let me guess. Your wife wasn't a virgin when you met her?
>>24814610kill yourself
>>24815012>>24815016It's not a sticker :(
>>24815026yeah, 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. >>24815027I recommend an Everman's Library of Poe's stories.
>>24815051You're telling me this is from a $100 copy of a public domain book?
>>24815051And 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?
>>24815049>It's not a sticker :(Well then I'd get my money back.
Why are publishing companies so gay?
>>24815101I don't even like it when the cover of the book is a screen shot from the movie.
>>24815101How long are they gonna keep the motion picture shit on there?
>>24814993This. Who without a vagina or proclivity for gay sex would recoil from a used book?
>>24814108This issue can't affect EPUBs
>>24815740I 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.
>>24815758Perfect