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Related: About this forum50 Very Bad Book Covers for Literary Classics
Sometimes they're horribly literal:
sometimes a single word in a title has triggered a thought in someone clearly on a deadline but who has no idea what the book is about:
and sometimes they just appear to be a random image:
https://lithub.com/50-very-bad-book-covers-for-literary-classics/
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50 Very Bad Book Covers for Literary Classics (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2021
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Goonch
(3,607 posts)1. ;-{)
Ponietz
(2,969 posts)2. Outstanding! Big rec!
Karadeniz
(22,513 posts)3. No excuses for such ignorance... But fun to be shocked!
hermetic
(8,308 posts)4. Too funny
Raises some questions. Does every publisher reprint the classics, just because they can? Every five years? I mean, there was just so many of them.