I like how the title is just painfully unexciting. An Opportunity for Revenge, brought to you by the author of such classics as Maybe He'll Get Run Over, I Wonder If It's Decaf, and A Choice of Sandwiches.
But he makes it all worth it through his choice of fonts and effects. The hallmark of a true expert !
I would bet a billion internet monies that Ned Lord is a sales engineer who has a strange relationship with his boss.
A friend came across a link which included several of these wondrous covers: And the touching coming out saga: I always wondered what it was called when I went on a date and now I know: third-sex shadow world!
I tried playing Third-sex Shadow World on my Xbox, but it was just another indie platformer. And I think that's Casey Casem there in the middle.
One of these days you assholes will learn not to hotlink images that are hosted on Angelfire, which I had no idea was still around:
I can't click like. I'm sorry. That Tale of the south cover... My jaw dropped and I look like a stunned fish right now. WOW.
Hard to say which part is the worst on that one. And "Gemini Moon" ? I am tempted to get it just to see if the freudian imagery relates to the content somehow. But then again I fear I'd be scarred for life, so perhaps better not. Edit: Nevermind. Here is the summary from Amazon.com
Oh my, "Gemini Moon" is actually not self-published, and the publisher is also not a vanity press. Which means that someone with a vested interest in publication success but perhaps not the authors feelings signed off on that cover.
Maybe this helps. "Ruining two memories for the price of one, now with a crappy cover included." But please note that it is copyrighted material. Doubly so, one for each destroyed classic.
On the big image I can see the line "Copyrighted material" on the top which just clinches it for me; that's some idiot putting the book on createspace himself, and 'protecting himself' by putting a message on it. Like idiots on youtube who quote copyright law as if it allows them to upload anything they want.
That's just something Amazon often does with their book cover images, as you aren't supposed to use them without their permission.
I own that copy of The Hobbit. Unless I am mistaken, it is also the version where they kindly corrected all the "misspellings" that Tolkien had littered throughout his books.
Misspellings? Like what ... did they change the name of the Dragon to "Smog"? Also, it looks like they hired Harry Hamlin, put him in a blond wig and told him to pose as Legolas.
It's something like "elves" to "elfs" and "dwarves" to "dwarfs" and "Middle-earth" to "Middle Earth" and stuff like that. The point being that they weren't misspelling, but some editor thought they were.
The frigging Anne of Green Gables stuff has been a classic Canada-is-pretty-provincial media fuss on the east coast, which is just tiresome given how obviously the story is "some dude on amazon stuck a cover on public domain text AND GOT THE HAIR COLOUR WRONG."
Of course they read the books! That why they made the girl on the cover a blonde! Anne always hated having red hair, so they though it'd be a nice touch to give her a color she'd like better. And why not put her in a plaid button up shirt and have her hair down because feminism! Yeah!
You know what the problem is with knitting dog hair sweaters? Getting caught in the rain. I'm sure most of you are familiar with the smell of wet dog...
I remember when I was a kid, our school library had the Lord of the Rings trilogy and those covers had kind of a landscape painting of different parts of Middle-earth so when you matched them up together they formed a really amazing panorama view of Middle-earth. Does anyone remember that set? It was kind of a similar idea to this but much more nicely done in my opinion. I did a Google image search but couldn't come up with anything.
