more in the series: ua-cam.com/video/glucf9HE_uc/v-deo.html !! i made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement, and I don’t expect to be forgiven. So what I did in the video was simply unplanned and the statement you saw was raw, it was unfiltered. I should have never said those things. I should have put the mic down, and stopped saying what I was thinking through. There were a lot of things I should have done differently, but I didn't, and for that from the bottom of my heart, I am sorry for stating that Benjamin Franklin was a president instead of a founding father.
Lol find your video hilarious but literally came to post because I didn't see anyone commenting about it in the first 20 or so comments that showed up on my TV's youtube. Glad you recognise it was a mistake!
OH MY GOD!! i read this comment and went “lol, i’ll do the same then” right before the pride and prejudice one came up 😭 imagine my absolute SHOCK at 4:39 🤣 edit: minor spelling error
i feel like the graphic designer for that is just being silly and pranking people into reading classic stories while thinking they're opening a romance book 😂
The cover is absolutely hilarious, but it got me thinking that an AU in which Little Women is set in China during the Cultural Revolution could be quite intriguing, maybe with the March sisters becoming Red Guards. It would kind of fit, because of the themes of civil war and ideological radicalism present in the book.
I think Lolita is an amazing work, and a work hardly anyone would have the courage to write these days; Vladimir Nabokov often said he didn't want any girl's on the front cover of the book cuz he knew how they'd be portrayed, but as you can see, no one ever listened to him. It was never Nabokov 'sexualising' girls - it was the publishing industry itself!
It’s so upsetting how he didn’t want them to be on the cover BECAUSE he knew they would get sexualized, the publishing industry really is something else in regards to that. Hell not even just that, just making book covers in general hyper sexual for stories that either have nothing to do with sexual content or are directly opposed to those notions. And then there’s ones that just look like the “graphic design is my passion” meme
@@screamingbean7509 EXACTLY! Nabokov must be rolling in his grave with fury right now, seeing people refuse to read his book because it 'enables' the sexualisation of children like NO IT BLOODY DOESN'T????
Oddly enough I think that B&W Vintage cover is the only one that did "that" kind of cover right because it isn't a comforting image. It feels wrong just to look at it but the act of doing so makes you realize that the character is seeing something you're not. So you already start off the book knowing that shit is fucked up.
@@MMAACC2014 Also, the posture of the legs suggests scared and vulnerable which adds to the disquiet of the image. It strangely manages to subvert the expected objectification by the very act of doing so. I've always looked at that cover and imagined a frightened child, not a sex object.
I don't actually know if my favorite Lolita cover design made it to print, but it is a white background with a pink crused lollypop. It really strikes a chord with me because lollypops have become ubiquitous with the famous image of Lolita and also symbolize youth. The fact that it's crushed is heartbreaking
i think i know the cover you mean! that one's pretty good and you're right it takes that imagery and reverses it with the whole crushed innocence symbolism
Are they just trying to make these books embarrassing to read in public? Like, who's honestly going to sit on the train with a book that has a headless torso on the cover with big letters saying DICK?
Like Charlie Stross once said "I wonder if there's a secondary market for fake dust-jackets for the easily-embarrassed reader, bearing the correct name and title but a different illustration?"
I can't remember if I dreamed it up, or if I really saw it, but I remember a cover of Lolita of a flower being crushed in a very tense male hand. Which imo gives the appropriate message. Personally I like really simple covers the most, I have a fairly minimal taste when it comes to book covers. Classic paintings for classic lit can work, so long as it's at least from the same time. Like, if a cover of an Austen novel features a portrait of a woman from 1800-1820 that's fine with me. Or like, a fairly neutral landscape or whatever. If you can't find a specific image that fits the story, go generic I guess.
it's a real cover!! i saw it in a video essay discussing lolita's book covers :) my personal favourite is the one where the cover depicts humbert with the title "lolita" on him, because to me that really shows that lolita is an idea created by humbert, and not an actual representation of who dolores was
Isn’t that the one on the left in 11:13 and the video that both of you are referring to is probably also the video by man holding things mentioned in this video as well.
Marketing is marketing, but at some point the book designers do have an ethical responsibility. Not just in cases of Lolita where it's like, "what are you endorsing here vs the book's content" but like with all the other hypersexualized unrelated covers. It's not just marketing, it's *false* advertising; it's lying.
true! for other books i understand designers have to grapple with current marketing trends and whatnot but not push it to extremes. it's also not even helpful for the reader who expects one thing and gets another. it reminds me of clickbait
what's crazy about the 'age up' lolita covers is that H.H. actively despises adult women. he doesnt ever try to justify his abuse of dolores by saying she's really an adult, its that he believes she is a disturbing child. its just pure delusion on the part of the publishing industry and a total lack of care of the source material
to be honest, the lolita part struck a chord in me. i’ve had no desire to read it for years but learning the original intent for the cover and the way popular culture has been ethically irresponsible in portraying the contents of yhem cover, thus influencing the perception of people who merely look at covers and don’t read them… it just made me realize that the reason i was so averse to it was the subconscious influence of these depictions through the eyes of the predator that i thought the book was condoning his actions (in a sense)
I'm in full agreement. I was told to read it for class in college when I was still a minor and I remember being utterly disgusted because of the exploitative movies and the culture surrounding it. But looking back, I'm glad I read it whether it was the right time for me to do it or not. The original Lolita book design is so interesting in a modern sense because covers for us are meant to convey the story somehow and hook us but I have legitimately no idea what I'm supposed to get if I never heard of Lolita and saw it. I'd assume Lolita was the main protagonist and it was her story like a Jane Eyre type of drama. Something dry and cold. But knowing, I think it pretty much fits. Or a Pic of Humbert Humbert.
Lol I read Lolita when I was 19 bc I used to romanticize it (I had no idea Lolita was 12 before reading it). I was expecting a cute romance, and ended up crying for Lolita.
The cover of Lolita with Humbert on it is one of the best ones, in my opinion. It’s off putting, its disturbing, and its a strong juxtaposition of a childish nickname and soft colors to the image of ecstasy on an adult man’s face. Coupled with the book’s unfortunate reputation, it delivers a sobering level of shock to the viewer. It is incredibly upsetting that the public now shares a POV of Dolores with her abuser, so I think it is only fair to expect designers to take the novel’s publishing history into account. Make the cover unpleasant, make it harrowing. People expect a seductress? Hit them with a child molester
The Wordsworth Classics covers are so bad that they become good. You know their art department consists of exactly one person who lied on their resume struggling to design that crap. I love it
Nabokov was a victim of CSA himself, which is why the last thing he wanted was for lolita to be interpreted as a love story. These covers do exactly that to anyone who is unfamiliar with the story. It's disgusting
A good cover for Lolita with a girl on it would be something like a young girl, teen looking through the mirror, and there's a big man's hands behind her, putting a red lipstick on her, and the lipstick is smudged Red lipstick is a symbol of s-x, and he made her that for him, he put that label on her, she did nothing. I think that would give that disgusting, uneasy vibe that we're supposed to get from that story.
My favourite modern cover I've seen for Lolita was one with a shattered heart-shaped lollipop. I think it's simple, yet eye-catching and very symbolic.
And it wasn't the only! There were at least two more YA books as a series when the publisher put the fault into the title. Just for sales. (Though some people thought that other novels were a plagiarism and were slow to buy them because of that).
For the one with Mao and the little boy I guessed Oliver Twist (knowing how weird these book covers can get I assumed that because there was a young boy who looked slightly sad maybe they could get something there) and oh boy I was both so much closer than I should be and also miles off
This video is such a vibe I love it!! I'd love for you to review your favourite covers from the Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl book. A group of graphic designers design their own version of the book Lolita and it's so interesting to see the many variations of the book covers and what the story means to each of them.
Lol, I remember finding that Mistborn cover in the cover gallery and sending it to all my friends who read the book like "Red-headed half-naked Kelsier?"
Personally, I prefer the original cover for Lolita to all the versions I’ve seen AND to Nabokov’s vision. I find that the description of the cover he wanted might end up looking too uplifting when Lolita is anything but that. The green is peaceful and pure while also evoking envy and jealousy, feelings that are no stranger to Humbert’s character. It’s plain in a very dignified manner and it’s perfectly ambiguous enough for Lolita. Anyways thanks for coming to my TED talk, I hope I might one day replace my repulsive edition of Lolita with a mord… moral one.
Oh my god, I have that Wordsworth edition of Don Quixote. It's a 300 year old translation too, so it's virtually unreadable. The whole package is a complete mess.
girl you are funny. im literally obsessed. also i've watched the man carrying thing video too and love the way you approacch Lolita with the just sensitivity cause so many peopl justify and romanicise it
I’ve been reading Nabokov’s books, and when I was looking for a copy of Lolita, it was so hard to find one that wasn’t disgusting 🤮 the penguin modern classics one has a still life painting
I remember when I was reading A Streetcar Named Desire and I left the book face up on a table. One of my teachers jokingly asked me if I was reading anything inappropriate (the cover literally had shirtless Marlon Brando on it) and I freaked out 😂
Benjamin Franklin was not a US president , but he was a founding father of the nation, the guy who discovered electricity, a famous writer, inventor and a rock star for his era.
Moby Dick, Little Women both had me giving a laugh, but I legit snorted at the 'murican P and P. Who was smoking what crack? Edit: aww, all the poor pride and prejudices!! It did nothing to deserve that abuse! Oh God all those Lolitas!!! I need to wipe my mind.
2:16 is a great cover for a book talking about the fall of an empire. Look at the characters. Despite riding in front of one of the center of power of the roman empire, the woman is looking in the other direction and the man is looking at the woman. The coliseum is getting completely ignored. Their clothes, their appearance has nothing to do with the romans. What this cover is communicating is what is left of one of the biggest empire the mediterranean ever knew. A few stone buildings that modern people aren’t even looking at. « My name is Ozymandias, king of kings… » you know the rest. It’s an incisive cover that communicates the fall of a decadent empire in an absolutely brilliant way (you could even interpret a layer about how our modern society could fall in the same way).
2:36 just as a minor side note as a ‘Murican, Ben Franklin was never a US President, but everything I heard about the guy makes me think he would’ve been one of the better ones in our history.
The Holmes Cover killed me. (As a great fan of the books) Like they don't care at all about the books. I don't think Holmes's in book appearance would be considered attractive by most. It's a shame. It's a Sherlock Holmes book! How can you miss the buttons? It's all about the little details! The worst on those kind of covers, they not even care for the time period. And well it generally just looks lazy. The books are worthy of good covers!
Guessing the Ben Franklin book is actually historical fiction where he's an immortal vampire from the 1400's...? Holy crap, actually, that's... NO ONE STEAL THIS.
SCREAMING AT THE MISTBORN COVER PLEASE i did NOT expect that!! not the first one to take me out (that would be Moby Dick (The Whale)) but as a mistborn fan that. wow.
Graphic designers of book covers really be thinking “don’t judge a book on its cover” exempts weight on their duty. Like I might judge buying a copy of a book by it’s cover, like I hope to God there exists copies with better covers.
My jaw FELL when Little Women came up 😂 I choked on nothing and had a coughing fit on the bus, what on earth were they thinking 😂 Edit: THE SHARK AJHDDHJA
In my country there is a very low budget publishing house that print public domain books, from the classic greek to The Capital, folk tales, etc. All the covers are the same renascent painting with a white circle with low opacity over it and the title and the author wrote in Times New Roman. Peak editorial design.
Ok but that Crime and Punishment cover is so bad it's camp. Also, that Benjamin Franklin cover is even funnier because that Botticelli painting is speculated to be a SELF PORTRAIT. So the Ben Franklin book has just an entirely different guy on it.
flashbacks to being 14 when I was the unofficial wattpad cover designer for my friends churning out The Shadows Are Wrong nonsense like this every weekend
My firsr personal book cover peeve is the hot air balloons on copies of Around the World in 80 Days. Out of all the methods of transport, they never use a hot air balloon. My second personal book cover peeve is with the Phantom of the Opera and the half mask thing. He never wears one of those.
I can at least get the logic behind all of the "let's just put a hot shirtless guy on there" covers for The Picture of Dorian Grey. It makes sense _kind of._ Book about an outwardly hot guy who the (incredibly dense) prose can't seem to stop emphasizing the attractiveness of every few pages? Yeah sure, put a hot guy on the cover! Thing is that aside from how poorly designed that one cover was, there are _so many more interesting things_ to do with a potential cover for that book- especially if the budget's right to allow some experimentation!
My sister guessed the Moby Dick one right, on no other hint than, "You've heard of it." No idea how, except that few Western clasics feature prominent tattooed characters, and Ishmael does seem to think Queequeg is hot.
As someone who studied half of Of Mice And Men in school that is definitely NOT the right cover for that book. (reason I say half is because the teacher threatened us with detention if we skipped to or spoiled the end then never actually finished the book in favour of a THIRD year of studying Macbeth, jokes on her we all watched the end ourselves after class anyways, still have no idea what happened in the middle of that book though and probably never will cause I can't finish a book to save my life lmao)
Thanks to the Lolita book cover Analysis that I got over my hatred against this book. It was the kind of book that Always disgusted me just by the name of it . The lollipop, the seductive gaze of the "Woman" , it's outright criminal. I still wouldn't read the book but atleast I got some insight what it is supposed to be.
Hey just fyi, Benjamin Franklin wasn't a president. He was a Founding Father around that time, and his biggest impact on the world today is that he is the originator of the rags-to-riches myth (because he used to wash rags as a child and ended up being a successful white man). He also invented the lightning rod and bifocals, and his autobiography was one of the most popular books at that time (and influenced how people like Fredrick Douglass would later write their memoirs)
Iirc, he was also a fairly accomplished satirist (though I assume since he was a Founding Father people didn't really care if his books were good or not, which is unfortunate) and at one point tried to get the US's national bird to be the wild turkey. We could have been living in the timeline where instead of an eagle screech being used as a generic American noise, we get "America, fuck yeah!" preceded by _turkey gobbling._ I for one feel robbed.
Not to mention Ben Franklin wearing a raccoon hat like Davy Crockett whenever he visited France-- so everyone in France would think he was an exotic man xD He was known for being a playa
My favorite Lolita cover is actually fanmade iirc, but it’s has dolores (from the waist down) with humbert forcing her shoe into a high heel that’s clearly way too big for her
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more in the series: ua-cam.com/video/glucf9HE_uc/v-deo.html !!
i made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement, and I don’t expect to be forgiven. So what I did in the video was simply unplanned and the statement you saw was raw, it was unfiltered. I should have never said those things. I should have put the mic down, and stopped saying what I was thinking through. There were a lot of things I should have done differently, but I didn't, and for that from the bottom of my heart, I am sorry for stating that Benjamin Franklin was a president instead of a founding father.
On behalf of the Supreme Court of Booktube, we pardon this grievous mistake.
Extremely disappointing, Divya smdh.
I had the presidents and the years they served memorized for two years in middle school. Somehow I missed this.
Lol find your video hilarious but literally came to post because I didn't see anyone commenting about it in the first 20 or so comments that showed up on my TV's youtube. Glad you recognise it was a mistake!
There's no way people actually care
I just guessed pride and prejudice for all of them until I got one right
Lmao! Same. 😅
you have learnt the tricks of the trade
OH MY GOD!! i read this comment and went “lol, i’ll do the same then” right before the pride and prejudice one came up 😭 imagine my absolute SHOCK at 4:39 🤣
edit: minor spelling error
Weirdly same...
@@sleepy.timaeus.arts.I'm crying about that cover like how the missed that bad 😂😂😂
Lolita may be the worst case of bad book covers, it's almost criminal
I wonder if we as the jury can suggest summary execution?
Honestly, in some cases, with how they sexualize a literal 13 year old? *Actually* criminal.
That one picture of an older man looking down with a very slimy undertone to it is perfect I think
the abs covers with the one BIG word are legit HILARIOUS
who made these covers???
they have the exact same font so I feel like a designer or publisher was responsible for this
My brain started reading all 3 titles as 1 complete title and immediately regretted it, lol. 😅
i feel like the graphic designer for that is just being silly and pranking people into reading classic stories while thinking they're opening a romance book 😂
This video literally explains that the covers were designed intentionally from 8:13, did y’all even watch the video??
ngl that is kind of a genious publishing move
I choked from laughter with that Communist Little Women, I legit thought it was supposed to be Mao's red book or something
I thought it was Mao's Last Dancer bc it's very similar to one of the *actual* covers for it, but oml I died at the reveal
I just know the answer is gonna be far from what the cover is portraying so I guessed war and peace but I didn't expect it to be THAT far off lol
I thought it was some kind of translated work or literal history book, but wow.
I guessed it was a very very literal cover for Nineteen Eighty Four
The cover is absolutely hilarious, but it got me thinking that an AU in which Little Women is set in China during the Cultural Revolution could be quite intriguing, maybe with the March sisters becoming Red Guards. It would kind of fit, because of the themes of civil war and ideological radicalism present in the book.
I appreciate how sensitively and intelligently you approached the subject of Lolita and brought it to attention.
♡♡
Oh yeah like dude Lolita is about a pedo obsessing over a LITTLE GIRL
I think Lolita is an amazing work, and a work hardly anyone would have the courage to write these days; Vladimir Nabokov often said he didn't want any girl's on the front cover of the book cuz he knew how they'd be portrayed, but as you can see, no one ever listened to him. It was never Nabokov 'sexualising' girls - it was the publishing industry itself!
It’s so upsetting how he didn’t want them to be on the cover BECAUSE he knew they would get sexualized, the publishing industry really is something else in regards to that. Hell not even just that, just making book covers in general hyper sexual for stories that either have nothing to do with sexual content or are directly opposed to those notions. And then there’s ones that just look like the “graphic design is my passion” meme
@@screamingbean7509 EXACTLY! Nabokov must be rolling in his grave with fury right now, seeing people refuse to read his book because it 'enables' the sexualisation of children like NO IT BLOODY DOESN'T????
Oddly enough I think that B&W Vintage cover is the only one that did "that" kind of cover right because it isn't a comforting image. It feels wrong just to look at it but the act of doing so makes you realize that the character is seeing something you're not. So you already start off the book knowing that shit is fucked up.
@@Theomite exactly; you start off the book feeling queasy
@@MMAACC2014 Also, the posture of the legs suggests scared and vulnerable which adds to the disquiet of the image. It strangely manages to subvert the expected objectification by the very act of doing so. I've always looked at that cover and imagined a frightened child, not a sex object.
I don't actually know if my favorite Lolita cover design made it to print, but it is a white background with a pink crused lollypop. It really strikes a chord with me because lollypops have become ubiquitous with the famous image of Lolita and also symbolize youth. The fact that it's crushed is heartbreaking
i think i know the cover you mean! that one's pretty good and you're right it takes that imagery and reverses it with the whole crushed innocence symbolism
Are they just trying to make these books embarrassing to read in public? Like, who's honestly going to sit on the train with a book that has a headless torso on the cover with big letters saying DICK?
I would, but I like to do a little trolling
"hey what you reading?" "the story about the whale but also the quest for meaning, revenge and the human condition. You know, Moby Dick"
Like Charlie Stross once said "I wonder if there's a secondary market for fake dust-jackets for the easily-embarrassed reader, bearing the correct name and title but a different illustration?"
What's there to be embarrassed about tho? It's a classic novel about obsession, revenge and whaling...
The COVER obviously @@ijustdocomments6777
I can't remember if I dreamed it up, or if I really saw it, but I remember a cover of Lolita of a flower being crushed in a very tense male hand. Which imo gives the appropriate message.
Personally I like really simple covers the most, I have a fairly minimal taste when it comes to book covers. Classic paintings for classic lit can work, so long as it's at least from the same time. Like, if a cover of an Austen novel features a portrait of a woman from 1800-1820 that's fine with me. Or like, a fairly neutral landscape or whatever. If you can't find a specific image that fits the story, go generic I guess.
it's a real cover!! i saw it in a video essay discussing lolita's book covers :)
my personal favourite is the one where the cover depicts humbert with the title "lolita" on him, because to me that really shows that lolita is an idea created by humbert, and not an actual representation of who dolores was
Isn’t that the one on the left in 11:13 and the video that both of you are referring to is probably also the video by man holding things mentioned in this video as well.
I think the one with the pink wall corner works too. Girly but no girl, not explicit but has a claustrophobic/trapped vibe
@@m.i7211 oh i missed it while i was watching the video but yes, that's what i was talking about!!
@@LadyDragonbane It is quite suggestive without actually showing a human body. The Y shape is often shorthand for female anatomy.
Marketing is marketing, but at some point the book designers do have an ethical responsibility. Not just in cases of Lolita where it's like, "what are you endorsing here vs the book's content" but like with all the other hypersexualized unrelated covers. It's not just marketing, it's *false* advertising; it's lying.
true! for other books i understand designers have to grapple with current marketing trends and whatnot but not push it to extremes. it's also not even helpful for the reader who expects one thing and gets another. it reminds me of clickbait
The entire Sheba Blake graphic design team needs to be sacked
the covers would be p decent if they just invest in a quick google search
@@itsdivyagEXACTLYYYYY
I think all the Lolita covers that try to make Delores look sexy should have a infinite life sentence
what's crazy about the 'age up' lolita covers is that H.H. actively despises adult women. he doesnt ever try to justify his abuse of dolores by saying she's really an adult, its that he believes she is a disturbing child. its just pure delusion on the part of the publishing industry and a total lack of care of the source material
to be honest, the lolita part struck a chord in me. i’ve had no desire to read it for years but learning the original intent for the cover and the way popular culture has been ethically irresponsible in portraying the contents of yhem cover, thus influencing the perception of people who merely look at covers and don’t read them… it just made me realize that the reason i was so averse to it was the subconscious influence of these depictions through the eyes of the predator that i thought the book was condoning his actions (in a sense)
There's an amazing ~10m video essay analyzing different covers of Lolita, it's really interesting, highly recommend!
I'm in full agreement. I was told to read it for class in college when I was still a minor and I remember being utterly disgusted because of the exploitative movies and the culture surrounding it. But looking back, I'm glad I read it whether it was the right time for me to do it or not.
The original Lolita book design is so interesting in a modern sense because covers for us are meant to convey the story somehow and hook us but I have legitimately no idea what I'm supposed to get if I never heard of Lolita and saw it. I'd assume Lolita was the main protagonist and it was her story like a Jane Eyre type of drama. Something dry and cold. But knowing, I think it pretty much fits. Or a Pic of Humbert Humbert.
Lol I read Lolita when I was 19 bc I used to romanticize it (I had no idea Lolita was 12 before reading it). I was expecting a cute romance, and ended up crying for Lolita.
That Little Women reveal almost made me spit out my coffee 😂
Same especially since I’m reading that book right now, can’t wait to get to the China part 😂
Got chocked on my own spit when it revealed
The cover of Lolita with Humbert on it is one of the best ones, in my opinion. It’s off putting, its disturbing, and its a strong juxtaposition of a childish nickname and soft colors to the image of ecstasy on an adult man’s face. Coupled with the book’s unfortunate reputation, it delivers a sobering level of shock to the viewer. It is incredibly upsetting that the public now shares a POV of Dolores with her abuser, so I think it is only fair to expect designers to take the novel’s publishing history into account. Make the cover unpleasant, make it harrowing. People expect a seductress? Hit them with a child molester
the classics just kept getting worse and worse i'm literally traumatized
better and better*
The Wordsworth Classics covers are so bad that they become good. You know their art department consists of exactly one person who lied on their resume struggling to design that crap. I love it
one of the designers commented on my previous video in this series and rest assured they're going to rehaul a lot of these haha
@@itsdivyag the power you yield! And you're using it for good 🙏
Came for the laughs, stayed for the serious discussion of book cover ethics
Nabokov was a victim of CSA himself, which is why the last thing he wanted was for lolita to be interpreted as a love story. These covers do exactly that to anyone who is unfamiliar with the story. It's disgusting
A good cover for Lolita with a girl on it would be something like a young girl, teen looking through the mirror, and there's a big man's hands behind her, putting a red lipstick on her, and the lipstick is smudged
Red lipstick is a symbol of s-x, and he made her that for him, he put that label on her, she did nothing.
I think that would give that disgusting, uneasy vibe that we're supposed to get from that story.
Or have a clearly 12 Lolita eating a large oversized lollipop with a man's shadow replacing her own.
8:46 I can imagine how absolutely horrified Sherlock Holmes would be if he was real and saw companies marketing his cases with a cover like this.
My favourite modern cover I've seen for Lolita was one with a shattered heart-shaped lollipop. I think it's simple, yet eye-catching and very symbolic.
"We were liars" was also localized in Russian as "The fault in our lies" (that's what the cover says). THE AUDACITY.
And it wasn't the only! There were at least two more YA books as a series when the publisher put the fault into the title. Just for sales. (Though some people thought that other novels were a plagiarism and were slow to buy them because of that).
desperately need the ISBN for that sherlock cover bc that would be the campiest christmas present ever 😅
unfortunately i think it's either just an ad campaign or an e-book cover
The Lolita cover with the guy looking like a pervert is excellent, and the only good way to portray that story
it reminds me of the a little life cover a bit
@@itsdivyag Yeah kinda. I also watched the ManCarryngThing video you referenced, really good stuff. The Lolita covers always gave me the creeps
For the one with Mao and the little boy I guessed Oliver Twist (knowing how weird these book covers can get I assumed that because there was a young boy who looked slightly sad maybe they could get something there) and oh boy I was both so much closer than I should be and also miles off
This makes me feel better about my graphic design skills, like I may not be great but I’ve never made something as bad as these
I love how that one company just went with abs for every cover intentionally. What even is the business of designing new book covers anyway
Extraordinary Attorney Woo is honestly so iconic 💙
great series
This video is such a vibe I love it!! I'd love for you to review your favourite covers from the Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl book. A group of graphic designers design their own version of the book Lolita and it's so interesting to see the many variations of the book covers and what the story means to each of them.
ooo interesting idea! might be my way back into tiktok/shorts
Lol, I remember finding that Mistborn cover in the cover gallery and sending it to all my friends who read the book like "Red-headed half-naked Kelsier?"
Personally, I prefer the original cover for Lolita to all the versions I’ve seen AND to Nabokov’s vision. I find that the description of the cover he wanted might end up looking too uplifting when Lolita is anything but that. The green is peaceful and pure while also evoking envy and jealousy, feelings that are no stranger to Humbert’s character. It’s plain in a very dignified manner and it’s perfectly ambiguous enough for Lolita. Anyways thanks for coming to my TED talk, I hope I might one day replace my repulsive edition of Lolita with a mord… moral one.
Oh my god, I have that Wordsworth edition of Don Quixote. It's a 300 year old translation too, so it's virtually unreadable. The whole package is a complete mess.
girl you are funny. im literally obsessed. also i've watched the man carrying thing video too and love the way you approacch Lolita with the just sensitivity cause so many peopl justify and romanicise it
man carrying thing video is so awesome. also tysm for the sweet comment
@@itsdivyag ofc! best wishes x
I’ve been reading Nabokov’s books, and when I was looking for a copy of Lolita, it was so hard to find one that wasn’t disgusting 🤮 the penguin modern classics one has a still life painting
The Moby Shark and the one about Rome 😭
I remember when I was reading A Streetcar Named Desire and I left the book face up on a table. One of my teachers jokingly asked me if I was reading anything inappropriate (the cover literally had shirtless Marlon Brando on it) and I freaked out 😂
5:30 the faults in our liars is just incredible as a concept
bring back 2014 books
Benjamin Franklin was not a US president , but he was a founding father of the nation, the guy who discovered electricity, a famous writer, inventor and a rock star for his era.
Moby Dick, Little Women both had me giving a laugh, but I legit snorted at the 'murican P and P. Who was smoking what crack? Edit: aww, all the poor pride and prejudices!! It did nothing to deserve that abuse! Oh God all those Lolitas!!! I need to wipe my mind.
2:16 is a great cover for a book talking about the fall of an empire. Look at the characters. Despite riding in front of one of the center of power of the roman empire, the woman is looking in the other direction and the man is looking at the woman. The coliseum is getting completely ignored. Their clothes, their appearance has nothing to do with the romans. What this cover is communicating is what is left of one of the biggest empire the mediterranean ever knew. A few stone buildings that modern people aren’t even looking at. « My name is Ozymandias, king of kings… » you know the rest. It’s an incisive cover that communicates the fall of a decadent empire in an absolutely brilliant way (you could even interpret a layer about how our modern society could fall in the same way).
the first part to this video is iconic and I literally laughed so hard, but the sequel made me bawl with laughter you are so iconic and funny
“He’s a US president” GIRL NO HE WAS NOT
I'm sorry, but the moby DICK cover was genious 😂 with a whale tattoo? Are you kidding me? Incredible 👏👏👏
2:36 just as a minor side note as a ‘Murican, Ben Franklin was never a US President, but everything I heard about the guy makes me think he would’ve been one of the better ones in our history.
oopsies
3:06 Oh yes, 小女人 by mao zedong 😂😂😂
Seconding Richelle mead covers, my parents thought I was reading dollar store smut until I showed them the school library label on the spine.
The Holmes Cover killed me. (As a great fan of the books) Like they don't care at all about the books. I don't think Holmes's in book appearance would be considered attractive by most. It's a shame. It's a Sherlock Holmes book! How can you miss the buttons? It's all about the little details! The worst on those kind of covers, they not even care for the time period. And well it generally just looks lazy. The books are worthy of good covers!
As someone who knows nothing about most of these books, it definitively felt like an inside joke i didn’t get lol
Please make more of these videos I'm begging you 😭 they are so good
8:00 Ishmael's POV when he has to share a bed with Queequeg 😂
I came for this comment, and this comment alone!
(It's ok tho they get married)
that crime and punishment cover caused me physical pain.
Non ironically Oscar Wilde would LOVE a hot hunk on the cover of his books
Vladimir: I don't want any girls on the cover
Person making the Lolita cover: Y'all hear something?
Guessing the Ben Franklin book is actually historical fiction where he's an immortal vampire from the 1400's...? Holy crap, actually, that's... NO ONE STEAL THIS.
Little women is crazy😃gladly my edition of Lolita has normal cover without seductive girl
Little women, Moby dick and anne of green gables SENT ME
“Benjamin Franklin is a U.S. President” 1706 😭 mans wasnt important until 1754 in the albany plan of union and he never became president
6:04 as an italian i’m extremely confused what am i looking and if it will kill me in some weeks
SCREAMING AT THE MISTBORN COVER PLEASE i did NOT expect that!! not the first one to take me out (that would be Moby Dick (The Whale)) but as a mistborn fan that. wow.
when i tell you my jaw dropped at that cover being little women
2:45 they should've just used a picture of you with this wig on 🤦♀️
you're so right
OF MICE AND MEN??? THE ONE WHERE THE GUY FCKIN SHOOTS HIS FRIEND??? THEY LIVE ON A FARM HALF THE BOOK?!??!?? WHAT IS SEXY ABOUT THAT???
Ben wasn’t a president lol. I wish he was 😂
Graphic designers of book covers really be thinking “don’t judge a book on its cover” exempts weight on their duty. Like I might judge buying a copy of a book by it’s cover, like I hope to God there exists copies with better covers.
My jaw FELL when Little Women came up 😂 I choked on nothing and had a coughing fit on the bus, what on earth were they thinking 😂
Edit: THE SHARK AJHDDHJA
In my country there is a very low budget publishing house that print public domain books, from the classic greek to The Capital, folk tales, etc. All the covers are the same renascent painting with a white circle with low opacity over it and the title and the author wrote in Times New Roman. Peak editorial design.
Please go find the pink cover of Flowers in the Attic from the early 2000s. It is the most misleading cover I’ve ever seen 😂
Ooh! Lovely surprise! I was just thinking about book covers 😂
Take them back! I can’t unsee these 😂😂😂
love the duality of your comments
i just wanna say that the cover looked better with the classic cover
I had no idea that there was a world of book covers that promote false advertising.
The Wordsworth classic edition of Lolita would be a sight to behold
i don't even want to think about it
i feel like for the one with Moby Dick the designer wake up at 1am and remembered they had to make a book cover for 8 in the morning
I prefer illustrations over abs. It’s just embarrassing to have on bookshelves. Sometimes it doesn’t even fit the book.
Would you consider designing your own Lolita cover for us? I'd love to see it!
Ok but that Crime and Punishment cover is so bad it's camp.
Also, that Benjamin Franklin cover is even funnier because that Botticelli painting is speculated to be a SELF PORTRAIT. So the Ben Franklin book has just an entirely different guy on it.
the wild thing is some pics of benjamin's portrait is in public domain so what was the reason here
flashbacks to being 14 when I was the unofficial wattpad cover designer for my friends churning out The Shadows Are Wrong nonsense like this every weekend
The decline and fall of the Roman Empire had me laughing on the floor
no i was so shocked when i first saw it?!?!!?
lol benjamin franklin was never president 😭
My firsr personal book cover peeve is the hot air balloons on copies of Around the World in 80 Days. Out of all the methods of transport, they never use a hot air balloon.
My second personal book cover peeve is with the Phantom of the Opera and the half mask thing. He never wears one of those.
I can at least get the logic behind all of the "let's just put a hot shirtless guy on there" covers for The Picture of Dorian Grey. It makes sense _kind of._ Book about an outwardly hot guy who the (incredibly dense) prose can't seem to stop emphasizing the attractiveness of every few pages? Yeah sure, put a hot guy on the cover! Thing is that aside from how poorly designed that one cover was, there are _so many more interesting things_ to do with a potential cover for that book- especially if the budget's right to allow some experimentation!
GUYS I GUESSED THE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE ONE 💀 also loved the video aha ❤
why don't wordsworth just get rid of the pictures...It would probably be cheaper for them and better for our eyes
the Russian cover of "We Were liers" is translated to "Love Was at fault" I just had to check the author to make sure its the same book. it was...
as a russian, you are incorrect. It actually means "Deception is at fault".
My sister guessed the Moby Dick one right, on no other hint than, "You've heard of it." No idea how, except that few Western clasics feature prominent tattooed characters, and Ishmael does seem to think Queequeg is hot.
your sister should be a private investigator / detective
As someone who studied half of Of Mice And Men in school that is definitely NOT the right cover for that book.
(reason I say half is because the teacher threatened us with detention if we skipped to or spoiled the end then never actually finished the book in favour of a THIRD year of studying Macbeth, jokes on her we all watched the end ourselves after class anyways, still have no idea what happened in the middle of that book though and probably never will cause I can't finish a book to save my life lmao)
8:06 the massive letters saying ‘DICK’ and ‘MEN’ are so funny
with the american flag pride and prejudice one i literally said "ooh oooh asap rocky"
Ah yes. My favorite president.
Thanks to the Lolita book cover Analysis that I got over my hatred against this book. It was the kind of book that Always disgusted me just by the name of it . The lollipop, the seductive gaze of the "Woman" , it's outright criminal.
I still wouldn't read the book but atleast I got some insight what it is supposed to be.
Yeah. It's definitely made as a critique - the writer himself was a victim of CSA.
Hey just fyi, Benjamin Franklin wasn't a president. He was a Founding Father around that time, and his biggest impact on the world today is that he is the originator of the rags-to-riches myth (because he used to wash rags as a child and ended up being a successful white man). He also invented the lightning rod and bifocals, and his autobiography was one of the most popular books at that time (and influenced how people like Fredrick Douglass would later write their memoirs)
Iirc, he was also a fairly accomplished satirist (though I assume since he was a Founding Father people didn't really care if his books were good or not, which is unfortunate) and at one point tried to get the US's national bird to be the wild turkey. We could have been living in the timeline where instead of an eagle screech being used as a generic American noise, we get "America, fuck yeah!" preceded by _turkey gobbling._ I for one feel robbed.
oopsies also the rags-to-riches thing is so interesting
to be fair i do think turkey gobbling noises are strongly associated with America
Not to mention Ben Franklin wearing a raccoon hat like Davy Crockett whenever he visited France-- so everyone in France would think he was an exotic man xD
He was known for being a playa
Ben Franklin was never president though...
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Lore of Designer: how inappropriate do you want this design? Publisher: yes. Momentum 100
Just discovered this channel. Shits hilarious 🙏🙏
My favorite Lolita cover is actually fanmade iirc, but it’s has dolores (from the waist down) with humbert forcing her shoe into a high heel that’s clearly way too big for her
OH, and the one with a page full of “dolores haze” written down with humbert’s hand forcing her to write “lolita”
I mean there are no more American values than pride, and prejudice lmao
And having pride in prejudice. Amen and amen
That ain't the Of Mice And Men that I read in school...
The G stands for, oh my Gosh two uploads in one 30 day period
NOT THE 30 DAY PERIOD okay here at divya productions we will put more coal in our engines or whatever it is they do
But your mantaining a healthy work/school/life balance and avoiding a deep dark depression, right?
@@orionh5535 I am no longer in school so most of the year was just me battling my brain and just trying to do something ngl but we are getting better!