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I almost threw up when I saw the cover art for a new edition of Jane Austen’s novels:

This is Penguin, by the way. And no, it’s not AI-generated. Only human beings can be this stupid and aggressively untalented.

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  1. methylethyl Avatar
    methylethyl

    This is like the way they used to just take a random Frazetta painting and slap it on the front of any new SF release, without regard for whether it had anything to do with the subject of the book…

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    1. methylethyl Avatar
      methylethyl

      (except Frazetta was a better artist)

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  2. Avi Avatar
    Avi

    Are these YA versions of the Austen novels? Abominable!

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      No, I think the texts are original, actually.

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      1. methylethyl Avatar
        methylethyl

        I’d’ve assumed they were the abridged-for-the-illiterate version.

        But in good and completely off topic news:

        https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1885482776889352371

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        1. Clarissa Avatar
          Clarissa

          That’s incredible! Such great news. So many things happening on all fronts.

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  3. Ol Avatar
    Ol

    We used to make fun of hideous book covers, didn’t we? Those are terrible, especially the Mansfield Park one.

    Ol.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Northanger Abbey with the skanky bleached blonde is really out there, too. 😆😆

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      1. methylethyl Avatar
        methylethyl

        It looks like it’s trying to be a Game of Thrones/Austen crossover.

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      2. cliff arroyo Avatar
        cliff arroyo

        “skanky bleached blonde”

        Okay, now I want to rename all these books….

        Northskanker Abbey,

        Skanksfield Park,

        Skank and Skankability,

        Skanksuasion.

        ….ooof…. now I can breath again.

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  4. cliff arroyo Avatar
    cliff arroyo

    “new edition of Jane Austen’s novels”

    What I notice:

    Three of the four seem to play into race-play fantasies… white girl w/ brown boy (are we in for the BBC giving the books the Bridgerton treatment? or has that already happened?)

    The other has two girls…. and where is green-checker girl’s hand?

    The clothes are all aggressively ugly and all the covers suggest a color blind editor….

    My guess is they’re going for a manga vibe…. but… failing so, so hard.

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    bluebird of bitterness

    Those are truly atrocious.

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  6. random reader Avatar
    random reader

    It is said not to judge the book by its cover, but wow, this is bad. I would not want be caught carrying those around. If someone designed those to encourage people to read more, they are failing miserably. But perhaps they were going for an opposite outcome?

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