Showing posts with label Breakfast At Tiffany's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Breakfast At Tiffany's. Show all posts

Thursday

Worst Book Cover Re-designs

I saw that Jana over at The Broke & The Bookish wrote a post on cover re-designs and I thought, wow what a perfect opportunity for a rant! Here my favourite, worst redesigns;


This one really makes me cringe. Everything from the glaringly obvious terrible sales pitch to the image are just wrong. One, a rose? really? There couldn't have been a less appropriate flower to use, and it's thriving and bold, so unlike the dire and desperate landscape of the novel. Poor show. (Also, a love that never dies? It did die, along with Heathcliff.)


Oh yes show a vain girl putting on her make up! Because this book was really all about how polished and pretty Plath was.


"The most romantic story ever written"....between a prostitute and a gay man.


If Mill's and Boon did the 1920's.

Some re-designs really do pull it off though...



This is probably my favourite re-design ever, well done Penguin! (it's 1984 if you can't see it!)



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