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.
Hideous Art Cover
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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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(except Frazetta was a better artist)
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Are these YA versions of the Austen novels? Abominable!
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No, I think the texts are original, actually.
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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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That’s incredible! Such great news. So many things happening on all fronts.
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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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Northanger Abbey with the skanky bleached blonde is really out there, too. 😆😆
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It looks like it’s trying to be a Game of Thrones/Austen crossover.
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“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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“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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Those are truly atrocious.
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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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