Friday, February 8. 2008

A Quick Jaunt to the Book Store

Spent an hour at Barnes & Noble today looking at books.  I took a few pics of amusing shelf locations and amusing books while looking at covers. 

I’m a sucker for a good cover, to the point that I’m contemplating making a coffee table book that’s nothing but fake book covers.  Or something.

Speaking of covers:  I really hate it when they moviefy book covers.  You know, when they put the poster of the movie they made out of the book onto the BOOK.  (“Oh! I love Brad Pitt… I bet I’ll like this book…”)  Upton Sinclair’s <i>Oil!</i> was proudly displayed with Daniel Day-Lewis’s mustachioed manliness on its cover, the poster for <i>21</i> emblazoned whichever one of Ben Mezrich’s books it was based upon. (I say this because I truthfully don’t know which it was… a quick glance at Amazon shows that he has at least three books all detailing his capers with the MIT whiz kids who busted Vegas.  <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Busting-Vegas-Brought-Casinos-Their/dp/B000Q6GXWM/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202505258&sr=8-2”>One</a>.  <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Down-House-Students-Millions/dp/B00015PPM2/ref=pd_bbs_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202505258&sr=8-3”>Two</a>.  <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Vegas-Ben-Mezrich/dp/0099490994/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202505258&sr=8-5”>Three</a>.)

I remember trying in vain to locate a copy of <i>Fight Club</i> without either Brad Pitt, Ed Norton, or Brad Pitt AND Ed Norton on the cover around the time the movie came out.  Ug.  I always like to joke “Oh, they made a book out of that movie?!” whenever I see one, but even that’s not doing it for me anymore. 

Please, publishers, keep movies off of your books. Thank you.

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2008-02-08 15:57
aerospace said:

i also hate movie cover books. i drove to 2 or 3 separate borders to find a copy of Solaris without george clooney’s droopy face on the cover.

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2008-02-08 16:29
marcus132 said:

"I always like to joke “Oh, they made a book out of that movie?!” whenever I see one, but even that’s not doing it for me anymore."

I’m guessing you wouldn’t like the highlights of my literary collection.

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2008-02-08 19:24
jer said:

Thanks for sharing. That’s another issue altogether… I’m not sure whether I’ve shared my experience trying to get the the graphic novel that the film The ROad to Perdition off of half.com, but lets just say that when all was said and done, it required 3 different shipments and ended up with me owning a dvd of the film, the novelization of the film, and then finally the graphic novel that the film was based upon.

Really? Do we really need a novelization of a film of a comic book??

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2008-02-08 19:35
jer said:

How many of those have glossy pages in the middle showing off stills from the films?

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