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    Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time

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    Image of Althestane Althestane
    11/21/09

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time

    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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    Image of Althestane Althestane
    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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    06:53 AM

    @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 Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/20/09

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
    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
    09:03 AM

    @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
    12:17 PM

    @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 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

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
    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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    Image of Chuck Chuck
    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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    Image of Chuck Chuck
    11/20/09

    @MargaretMoony: I still have room for a copy of "Boobs on the Moon" in my collection tho :-)
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    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

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
    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 cylon_conspiracy cylon_conspiracy
    11/20/09

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
    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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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/20/09

    @Shini: R.O.A.C.H.: A Michael Scott adventure.
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    11/20/09

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
    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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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    11/20/09

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

    I'd buy that for a dollar.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/20/09

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
    Kudos to Cyriaque Lamar for coming up with "The Chippendales new routine really raised some eyebrows." as the copy for Num 23 in Cheesiest Book Covers. Personally i would go to that review.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/20/09

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
    The cover for Conan the Conqueror is one of Frazetta's worst paintings. The fact that the example of Conan the Conqueror is a used bookstore (or even thrift store) copy with .10 written on it in Sharpie is priceless.
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    Image of dirtybacon dirtybacon
    11/20/09

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    "Those Sexy Saucer People"... that cover... my god it is brilliant and uncomfortable. I want to read it to see just exactly why the wonam is hiding her head in shame. (*hint*: anal)
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    11/20/09

    @dirtybacon: Bwahahahaha! Your hint was hilarious. At least it was to me, at the end of a very long work week. I really wasn't expecting that.
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    11/20/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: She wasn't expecting that either by the look of it.
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass Dr.Quatermass
    11/20/09

    @dirtybacon: Hi ho!
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    11/20/09

    In reply to Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
    These are the voyages of the Starship Intercourse, whose sexy mission is to seek out new worlds, bang alien babes and boldly fuck where no horndog has fucked before.

    James T. Kirk
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass Dr.Quatermass
    11/20/09

    @ManchuCandidate: Live long and proliferate.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/20/09

    @ManchuCandidate: now there is a man who actually had a weapon of mass distraction
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    Image of dirtybacon dirtybacon
    11/20/09

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    I didn't know Orgy of the Dead was a book!!
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