Saturday, June 07, 2008

Bad book covers IV


Anatoly Karpov, My Best Games, Edition Olms, 2007.
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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousMon Jun 09, 12:48:00 am 2008

    i like this cover actually!
    pretty nice painting

    alexey

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  2. Tom ChiversMon Jun 09, 11:48:00 am 2008

    I wouldn't go as far as Alexey, but I don't think it's as bad as the others so far in the series. Or perhaps the bar has been lowered so far, I no longer have any ability to draw such distinctions...

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  3. Jonathan BMon Jun 09, 10:59:00 pm 2008

    If the book was called "Julian Clary's Best Games" the cover would be fine. But it isn't so it's not.

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  4. ejhTue Jun 10, 08:39:00 am 2008

    If I had the required skills I would perhaps have excised the wording from the cover and invited people to guess who it was.

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  5. AnonymousTue Jun 10, 09:38:00 pm 2008

    The worst covers by far are those
    for the Everyman Chess's "Mastering the..." series, which feature very phallic pawns. The one for Byron Jacob's "Mastering the Opening" is particularly disturbing.

    http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Opening-Everyman-Chess-Jacobs/dp/1857442237/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213130012&sr=8-1

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  6. ejhWed Jun 11, 08:01:00 am 2008

    Are they supposed to be butting one another, like goats?

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  7. BomTrownThu Jun 12, 09:20:00 pm 2008

    bad? that's a gooood cover.

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