“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts”*…
“… Refuted thus”
Just because you CAN design your own book cover doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
“Actually, without reading the book, I don’t know if this is a bad cover; it might be a perfect representation of what to expect.”
More at Lousy Book Covers (and/or at their Tumblr).
* Charles Dickens
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As remind ourselves of Groucho Marx’s insight: “outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend; inside of a dog it’s too dark to read,” we might recall that this is a big date in the annals of English letters… It was on this date in 1842, that Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published Poems. While the future Poet Laureate had been writing for a decade, it was this two-volume release (which included “Ulysses” and Morte d’Arthur”) that made his name.
And on this date in 1925, Virginia Woolf published the story of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway– one of Time‘s “100 Best Novels since 1923” (2005).
