Many of you are already fans of Caustic Cover Critic. But this latest post about really bad e-book covers for public domain lit is hilarious and maddening. Here is just one to whet your appetite.
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Many of you are already fans of Caustic Cover Critic. But this latest post about really bad e-book covers for public domain lit is hilarious and maddening. Here is just one to whet your appetite.
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Oh my goodness. This could bring a whole lot of new readers to the classics…
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Good Lord. I am speechless! I think whoever picked that up would be quite disappointed with the content after seeing that cover!
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There are so many things wrong with that cover that I don't even know where to begin.
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D.H. Lawrence must be turning in his grave. LOL.
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I agree with Darlyn. I know publishers have really whittled down their staff, but someone with a bit of taste and knowledge really needs to be overseeing this. ___ The Devoted Classicist, http://tdclassicist.blogspot.com
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Oh how shame-making! and the cherries? I'm lost?
I wonder if that unemployed porn actress knows she's a book cover “star?”
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There is a lot of talk about Gudrun and her tights in Women in Love, although those stockings were not quite what I imagined her wearing!
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Lifetime: Photo aside, the bad design would keep me from picking it up.
Rachel: Totally disappointed. I found the book tedious and I wasn't even looking for sex.
Kerry: Not one redeeming thing about it.
Darlyn: I think he may have liked the picture.
John: Thankfully, this wasn't from a publishing house, it is someone taking the public domain text and slapping a cover on it to try and make some money from gullible e-readers.
Daniel: I think the cherries are alluding to her untouched nature. If you can believe that.
Niesa: I think your right.
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There are no words. This is appalling! Was the cover creator trying to revive the legal case against this book?
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That post is hilarious; what makes the Swann's Way cover really funny is that those are macaroons, not madeleines!
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Oh wow, that is one of the worst things I've ever seen. Off to read his post now…
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Yet another reason not to get an e-reader.
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