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ITT: worst book covers
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>>25581966
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I own a pretty awful looking copy of do androids dream. It's been a while since I read it, but I'm pretty sure the "lady" on the cover doesn't even appear in the story, so I'm not quite sure what they were thinking with this?
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>>25583135
Holy based
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>>25583135
looking like Rarity in some bizarre brony fanart
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>>25582016
Literally the best possible version
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>>25583135
Furfags have been ruining everything since the beginning of time
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>>25582016
So that's why the French worship him so much, buncha fags
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>>25583295
OP said worst covers, this one rocks
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Bright yellow covers suck, this one is also completely uninspired
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>>25583692
forgot pic
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>>25583303
Watch it, Chrissie, this one is fine.
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>>25583686
this is a joke edit, right?
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Bonus points for also having terrible art in the book, e.g. the minotaur being a horned centaur configuration.
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>>25584492
Why is this supposed to be bad ?
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>>25583295
I got like... 3 books from this Série Ouro shopping online and yeah, all covers are like this.
There is a reason why so many of those books end up in shopee...
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>>25583677
Based.
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latin america will do things to book covers you never thought possible
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>>25583677
Glad I found this one at a thrift store
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>>25585793
lol
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>>25581966
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>>25581966
>>25583295
>>25583298
>>25583303
>>25585793
Why are Spanish/latin book covers uniquely tacky and awful? It cannot be a coincidence that half the covers itt are in Spanish or Portuguese
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>>25584476
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>>25585882
Because these books are often published by the cheapest, shittiest, local companies who pay their cousin who's never read a book in their life to design the cover because they took a photoshop class in high school one time.
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yes, it's that Osamu Tezuka btw
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>>25585287
>Why is this supposed to be bad ?
Who the fuck is it supposed to be? White wings are not a common feature of Greco-Roman mythological figures and the helmet eliminates even more candidates.

Also, it's art-deco which is inspired by Egypt.

This is jelly-filled donuts-tier composition choices.
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>>25583677
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>>25585905
This, and also small publishers who mainly do textbooks for schools.
This one >>25585793 looks exactly like my primary school English workbook lol. Same fonts and overall design language.
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>>25585905
>>25586260
so you don't think latin people inherently have worse taste and sense of aesthetics than other peoples?
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>>25581966
The Penguin Classics edition of Jude the Obscure.
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>>25587710
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>>25583677
try sorrows of young werther by modern library classics, the cover is literally just a gay brazilian guy crying on close up shot
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>>25587693
I don't think it's racially or ethnically related, but I do think it's cultural.
Cheap is king in Latin America and there's a distinct lack of care for being detailed and "doing a good job" that permeates the whole region.
Imho there's a majority of people who don't really care about beauty and creating beautiful things. As long as said thing works and it's cheap, it's good enough.
I'm pretty sure there are people like that in every region but it seems to be more prevalent in 3rd world countries. You're more likely to see a doctor's office sign in Comic Sans in Asunción or Manila than in Copenhagen or Tokyo.
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>>25585882
>Why are Spanish/latin book covers uniquely sovlfvl
FTFY
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>>25587726
that's pretty bad
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My Botchan cover looks like this. Kind of based now that I think of it though
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>>25587693
>latin people inherently have worse taste and sense of aesthetics than other pe-ACK!
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Have some slop i made
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>>25588884
kys slopper retard
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>>25588656



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