10 HILARIOUSLY BAD BOOK COVER DESIGNS
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- Would you like to see 10 classic books whose designs let them down. In this world where anybody can upload a classic book to Amazon for free, and where large publishing houses do not have to pay any royalty fees, the book cover artwork can tend to lack effort.
In this video I'll show you 10 classic book covers which made me laugh out loud. At the end I have a go at producing some artwork myself along with the worrisomely inaccurate idea of a plot which spawned them.
Which one is your favourite? Let me know in the comments
PS this is an old video which I have re-uploaded as I have been ill and couldn't record a new video.
Enjoy
Just to say this is a repost from a few years ago because I've been ill with the flu all week and have been stuck in bed. Hope it cheers your day a little.
Get Well soon, Tristan xx
I hope you feel better soon.
Hope you feel better soon.
Aw, no! Take care.
Hands up, who clicked just to hear Tristan laugh? 🤣
He has the best laugh!
I love his laugh! He cracks me up🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
More, more, more!!! Absolutely hilarious and I love when you lose it😁😁😁😁
Me 😂
The best part was your laugh...😂 Lovely, laughed myself in stitches....
Thank you. It's good to giggle 😃
Omg I just kept laughing out loud. Slash the guitarist from Guns and Roses!! A Pair of Blue Eyes with....cats! Are you making them up! 🤣🤣🤣🤣Just brilliant. Thank you.
Hope you feel much better soon.
So pleased that you enjoyed them as much as I did 😀
This video is priceless.
“Lock Up Your Daughters !! Darcy’s in town…. “That is the best thing I have heard all day
This was very funny. But I think I had more fun just watching you laugh. Very creative covers Tristan. I especially loved your take on The Pilgrim's Progress.😄
Thank you, Anna. it's important to be silly and giggle isn't it. What is life without laughter.
Hi Tristan, sorry to hear you have been poorly. Hope you are feeling a bit better. Thanks for posting this, it’s hilarious and your laugh is infectious. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Hard to believe these are actual covers. 😂😂😂😂😂
What an infectious laugh. Thank you for keeping some of the bloopers in. Made my day.
THIS WAS HYSTERICAL!
Pleased you enjoyed it, Jane
Get well soon! This video is great, thank you!
Thank you so much.
Holy cow!!😂 Shouldn’t those folks who create book covers, particularly the CLASSICS, be required to read them first?! Lol! And YOUR covers are great!😂
Please do a part two! This was hilarious!
This video is a thing of beauty and it will be a joy forever in my faves folder! Do feel better soon, you silly man.
That was lots of fun. I like many of the covers you created and the stories behind them. 😆
Hope you are feeling better. I laughed till I cried, particularly at your cover for 'The Mill on the Floss'!
I laughed out loud at this video title😂😂
We need a new genre in literature, dedicated to insane covers. The 60s creatured a treasure trove of wild covers, and I often find some absolute beauties in second-hand book shops. Yes, sometimes a book can be bought for the cover alone - as demonstrated by Tristan. Excellent episode, thank you.
I thought yours were the funniest! Oliver Twist and Mill on the Floss had me laughing so hard I scared my cat! Hope your feeling better!
Thank you for such a hilarious video! Your laugh is infectious and I took great delight in your ‘summaries’ of these treasures.
This is great! You need to do a video like this once a year!! 👏👏👏👏
Turning the saying "never judge a book by its cover "on its head. Publishing houses are cutting corners to minimize on costs and unnecessary expenditures. Can you imagine renowned illustrators like Alan Lee and John Howe being commissioned to do book covers for the Classics. The bill won't be cheap🙃
Hope you get well soon! These covers are hilarious. Thanks!
Thank you, Karen. 😀
This gave me such a good laugh! My favorite was huckleberry Finn 😅
Epic laughter. Loved your enthusiasm
This is a good one!
This video has me rolling in laughter! These covers are so terrible, they are great!
I know, right? Do you think the cover designers were fired afterwards? 😂 To be fair, the Sheba Blake designs are deliberately bad. It's like their brand. But I didn't know when I first discovered them.
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 if they weren’t fired, they should’ve been! 🤣🤣
Wessex Tales is my favorite. Good job on Persuasion.😂
I laughed so hard I still have tears in my eyes. I was going to mention, though, that, for me, the worst book covers are the ones where the illustrator HAS read the book and puts a spolier clue in the picture. Old Dorothy Sayers mysteries come to mind, and I think a few Agatha Christies, too.
Still laughing about Darcy's in town! Hope you're feeling better soon.😊
This was so much fun, thank you! And I hope you feel better soon!!
This video is hilarious, sir! Well done!
This is such a good video. I laughed so much watching it. I loved your version of Oliver Twist the best!
That's it, I have to read that Thomas Hardy rock & roll book! Sounds fabulous! Who says classics are stuffy?
You, sir are simply brilliant! What an enjoyable video. 😂
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Thank you for sharing your clever humor with us.
What a wonderful way to spend a rainy afternoon here in Alabama.
Thank you.
Best wishes 🇺🇸🇺🇸
OMG your description of Othello! I laughed so hard!
Sorry to hear you’ve been under the weather! Thanks for the laughs. I guess the adage “You can’t make this stuff up” is true - lol! I was not surprised that you included a few from Wordsworth. With a few exceptions - 1984 being one of them - I’ve always felt that a lot of their covers resemble film posters for cheaply made B movies. The Iliad cover is no exception! I did like your work on Mill on the Floss :)
Those were great! I thought yours were the best, especially the Mill on the Floss. Thanks for a good laugh.
Haha! I would totally read any of these as retellings the way you describe them.
I actually do design covers for classic books. My style is more vintage, but I feel like I should take inspiration from these.
Love your covers! 😂
And hahahaha! Laughing so hard about your Iliad comments and the “sexy” 70s music you inserted!!!! Hilarious
Sorry you were ill, but I loved the repost.
One of the Kindle covers for The Maltese Falcon is atrocious on multiple levels and I’m not even an Atlanta Falcons fan.
Im I'm going to go and find it now.😀
😆😅😂🤣🤣🤣🤣......hilarious! Tristan, how long did it take you to film this video? Dental floss😂😂😂?!
Loved this. It was hilarious. I remember reading the version of Rapunzel as a child but it never occurred to me how unrepresentative the cover was.
This was so fun! I laughed out loud .Brilliant commentary!😂
Stephen King's dark blue on black dust cover. Can't remember the title.
I do like Kim's shoes though. I bet she makes some exceedingly good cakes too!
I can't lie, the fabulous shoes were the first thing I noticed.
3:22 Grey 😂
I would buy that version of Pride & Prejudice in a heartbeat! 😂 It’s from a series called “Pulp! The Classics” and many of them are hilarious - the one for “Hound of the Baskervilles” literally made me laugh out loud.
So funny. Thank you.
Unbelievable! This is hilarious, hard to believe these are real.
We hope you feel better soon 🫖may books 📚bring you comfort as you recuperate 😊
So that’s what Fabio looks like when his chest is covered.
Tristan get well soon ❤
We need to listen to you 😊
Did you forget what you recommended ? Can’t find it anywhere 🙏🏻
How did Slash end on the cover of Thomas Hardy?
Persuasion is my favourite.
Well, The Othello one isn't that bad (haven't read or seen the play,) I wonder what you make for the other Shakespeare plays?
Couldn't find the cat one. But I did find The Iliad! It really is real! Yegads, somebody actually got PAID for designing that. I'm in the wrong line of work.
I hope you recover soon, get well wishes to you.
🤣 I'm a "Kim" (not hardly) that's hilarious! Are you married, good sir?
Actually the Othello game (also called Reverso) was named after the Shakespeare book. But why they used a picture of the game as a cover is beyond me.
Hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Listen some of the covers are hilarious, but the one for The Wessex Tales is a direct stealing of a cover from a video game - Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock - I think they honestly just chopped off everything but Slash, slapped some new words on it and said ‘that’ll due’ 😬
A few years ago? Many of them look like A.I. generated book covers.
I recently bought a New Testament King James Version (Authorized for you) at Walmart. The cover also said "Easy to Read". For who?
😂😂😂
The publisher must not have read the book either or they would not have approved the design.
Oh, Lor'
WTF 😂😂😂
Whom?
😂😂😂