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    Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time

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    Image of SeeingI SeeingI
    11/23/09

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
    #29 Orgy of the Dead - by Ed Wood - there's a movie, too, you know!
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    Image of Althestane Althestane
    11/21/09

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    These are the kinds of books that you find as a kid, forgotten and stuffed in between those larger hardback books on your parent's bookshelves. Immediate totems in your adolescence because of their yellowed age, apparent obscurity and weird or evocative (if trippy) covers.
    This is in fact how I first found Tolkein. (1965 Ballantine LOTR covers)
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    11/21/09

    @Althestane: Tolkien hated these with a passion!
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    11/21/09

    @Wookie1972: really??? Always thought they were really quite interesting, mirroring the progression of the books, giving hints at the key moments of each, but doing so in an almost ethereal dream-scape. They drew me in with this vague but intense visual representation of what might lie inside, almost like a twisted riddle that only reading the text would unravel. I think that's true for a LOT of the examples above, and cheesey/innapropriate or not, they do have this mysterious allure to pique your interest that a straight up illustration just can't accomplish.
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    11/22/09

    @Althestane: Actually, my folks had those exact same ones. But I read a quote from TOlkien to the effect of "what the hell are those things?" (although as an Englishman, he'd probably not be so crude)
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/21/09

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
    I kinda think including '70s European covers is cheating... AFAICT, they used the same ad copy for breakfast cereal and plungers.
    -Kle.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/21/09

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
    My copy of "Glory Road" looked nothing like that.
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    Image of spoogy spoogy
    11/21/09

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    Is it weird that I find the text "from the publishers of Mandingo" more alarming than "Starship Intercourse"?
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/21/09

    @spoogy: Only if you watch a lot of porn ... or so i have heard.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/20/09

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    Oh. Wow. Charlie this was astonishingly cheestastic. LOVE your captions on each of these travesties. The most remarkable thing about the whole post is that you didn't have to include a single Baen Books cover. The mind, it is boggled!!
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    Image of Vulcan Has No Moon Vulcan Has No Moon
    11/21/09


    @Grey_Area: Ask, and you shall receive.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/22/09

    @Vulcan Has No Moon: Yeah, you can see how armor like that would be very useful in combat.
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    Image of Vulcan Has No Moon Vulcan Has No Moon
    11/22/09

    @Grey_Area: Especially against a twenty-foot tall fire-breathing dragon. I would think asbestos knickers, a welding mask, and oven mitts would be trifle more practical myself, but then, I've never been a slave to fashion.

    p.s. This piece of....art is the work of Baen illustrator Clyde Caldwell. He has a website and it's truly, truly....amazing.
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    Image of Franklin Harris Franklin Harris
    11/20/09

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
    Clearly, the reason SF is losing shelf space to supernatural romance and other such drek is because SF books no longer have covers like this. We need more "inappropriate" SF book covers!
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    Image of Dresan Dresan
    11/20/09

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
    A few bullet points after seeing all of them:

    The Golden Voyager cover is nothing short of awesome.

    I did not know the existence of the word "beaver-pie".

    Nude in Orbit probably wrote itself.

    Does the Mona Lisa cover have an anime style girl with blue hair in the back of the pic?

    I need to read 'Odd John'.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/20/09

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    Not going to lie, I want to read the books on both lists.

    Also, Boobs on the Moon is going to be my next book title.
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    11/20/09

    @MargaretMoony: lol... I've already read books on both lists -- and in those covers, on a couple of them...
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/20/09

    @Chuck: Nice!

    #tips
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    11/20/09

    @MargaretMoony: I still have room for a copy of "Boobs on the Moon" in my collection tho :-)
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    11/20/09

    @MargaretMoony: I' ll read Boobs on the Moon , but i have to ask what you plan on following it up with ? maybe do it as a trilogy just so you can call it "Boobs on the Moon the first ingredient in the Space Lust Ménage à trois"
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/21/09

    @Jassen: Well, after Boobs on the Moon, there's going to be the sequel, Penises in Uranus. I don't know about the third book though...

    #tips
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/21/09

    @MargaretMoony: It came from behind my Milky Way ?
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/20/09

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    Who in the world would read something like "The Day the Universe Came"?

    What I mean is does anyone have it because I want to borrow it.
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    Image of SpammerOvTheGods SpammerOvTheGods
    11/20/09

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
    QUEEN KONG CAMEL TOE!

    #@!
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    Image of Vulcan Has No Moon Vulcan Has No Moon
    11/21/09

    @SpammerOvTheGods: I'm horrified to say this but I'm pretty sure that's Queen Kong vulva.
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    11/21/09

    @Vulcan Has No Moon: I look at that pic as someone in a suit. ;)

    #@!
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    11/20/09

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    Lol@ these covers. But... to me they are entirely appropriate. I may even purchase some of these titles.
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    Image of Shini: R.O.A.C.H. Shini: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/20/09

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    Number 2, most inappropriate: "Atomic sex and a deadly game of overlove as Peter Ward, C.I.A. superstud, swings into the torrid action."

    I laughed so hard.
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    11/20/09

    @Shini: R.O.A.C.H.: A Michael Scott adventure.
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    11/20/09

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    This seals it! I want in on the editor's side bets on the "most sexually stroked columns one can post in a week." Can I take the over? Or under if you prefer? I'm not picky ;)
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    Image of Belabras Belabras
    11/20/09

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    How is it that 'The Day the Universe Came' was never adopted for screen?
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    Image of Shini: R.O.A.C.H. Shini: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/20/09

    @Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!: What do you think Avatar is? Cameron changed it from bunnies to hairless cat girls, but the plot is about 95% percent there and not a single line of dialog is changed.
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    11/20/09

    @Shini: R.O.A.C.H.:

    I'd buy that for a dollar.
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