Missed One For The Worst Book Covers Ever
As Tracie Egan Morrissey put it at Jezebel about this attempted chick-lit-ization, "If Sylvia Plath hadn't already killed herself, she probably would've if she saw the new cover of her only novel The Bell Jar."
Check out the horrifying "Anne Of Green Gables" cover in the gallery of photos below the post at the link.
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Dunno about literature, but over here in showbiz, preciousness is a sin. If the goal is to move product, and the creator declines to attend to marketing....
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at January 25, 2013 7:04 AM
I can't find a link.
Insufficient Poison at January 25, 2013 8:07 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/01/25/missed_one_for.html#comment-3579736">comment from Insufficient PoisonSorry, just included!
http://jezebel.com/5978457/the-bell-jar-gets-a-hideous-makeover/gallery/1
Amy Alkon
at January 25, 2013 9:11 AM
Lucy must be spinning in her grave(not the dog, who is still much alive.). What the heck happened to the publishing industry that the can not find a proper cover for such classic books. People must be beat for those travesties. At least forced to read the book and write a 100 page analysis on why their choice of cover was wrong.
John Paulson at January 25, 2013 9:36 AM
Personally, for me, no other book cover could be a bad as this one
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL346715M/Starship_troopers
lujlp at January 25, 2013 9:41 AM
LOL..the book is supposedly about a woman's "clinical depression" but my takeaway was, don't take your mother's sleeping pills by the handful every day and expect to live through it.
carol at January 25, 2013 1:23 PM
The Bell Jar starts out in New York with the protagonist leading the glamorous life, and feeling like shes not taking enpugh advantage of her oportunity.
Anne of Green Gables, however, is not about a blond pin-up.
NicoleK at January 26, 2013 5:40 AM
ANNE SHIRLEY HAS RED HAIR. RED. RED!!!!!
That having been said, I'd never heard of Herland before. Added it to the Amazon wish list. Thanks, Amy!
marion at January 26, 2013 6:49 AM
Anne Of Green Gables is out of copyright, so it's now available for free online.
I'm sure that's the explanation for the awfulness of the cover--it's from some cheesy Kindle edition.
I Googled Anne Of Green Gables Three In One Set and came up with this one, also a cheesy Kindle edition.
Not as wildly inappropriate, but still nothing to do with the book, especially as it shows rural England, rather than Prince Edward Island.
James Fulford at January 29, 2013 7:08 PM
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