Thursday, March 31, 2011

new inheritors.

today i wanna start a new category called "great book covers and titles". very often, i see a book cover or read a title and already feel the need to buy the book without even having read the abstract. here are 4 books for starters.



5 comments:

  1. that last one is pretty amazing. i absolutely share your feelings towards book covers. but i often end up buying books without reading them for months or sometimes even years.

    i can't think of any outstanding book covers right now, but i'll let you know as soon as i do.

    maybe this one? ;)

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nXknRDZBs0E/STIGpOFUHoI/AAAAAAAACcI/4Z9FyIJEtaA/s1600-h/kafka.jpg

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  2. i know what you mean. i have to many books i bought at the fleamarket or an antique shop, and haven't had the time, yet, to actually read them. ;)

    btw. kafka is among them!

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  3. are you familar with foer's "tree of codes"?

    this is the cover:

    http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1425/5128379084_aa9799fd06.jpg

    and now comes the fun part. through cut-out pages, the whole novel tells a new story out of an old novel.

    http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_la6vkqPI4R1qz6f4bo1_500.jpg

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  4. i have to admit, i never really liked foer, but the idea seems brilliant! didn't know about the book, yet.

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  5. i just bought the first one as well. :)

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