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Posted 31 July 2010 - 02:58 PM
I also love the name. "Game of the Gods" sounds so inappropriate... But then the Russian name of The Prince of Nothing trilogy is something on the lines of The Armies of Darkness so...
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Posted 31 July 2010 - 03:08 PM
BEHOLD, exactly! - The german Cover for the 'five? darfs in their halls of stone" (second Half of HoC) is the worst yet... but the others are only slightly better. And the road goes ever on...
So I don't want to keep them back from you (first row: the two covers for HoC first and second half, second row: the two covers for MT first and second half):
So I don't want to keep them back from you (first row: the two covers for HoC first and second half, second row: the two covers for MT first and second half):
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Posted 31 July 2010 - 07:13 PM
I have to admit that I don't mind the title that much. Das Spiel der Götter refers to puppeteering gods and their games with mortals.
Das malazanische Buch der Gefallenen wouldn't sell that well, I guess haha.
That doesn't excuse five Santa Claus cosplayers on the cover, though.
Das malazanische Buch der Gefallenen wouldn't sell that well, I guess haha.
That doesn't excuse five Santa Claus cosplayers on the cover, though.
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Posted 31 July 2010 - 07:44 PM
what self respecting person would EVER buy books with those covers?
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"Imperial Gothos, Imperial"
"Imperial Gothos, Imperial"
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Posted 02 August 2010 - 07:39 AM
All the WoT covers are rubbish....each and every one.
Actually most fantasy covers range from blindness inducing to not so eye bleeding terrible. Good covers are few and far between. Malazan actually has some of the more consistently good covers. Steve Stone ftw \m/
Actually most fantasy covers range from blindness inducing to not so eye bleeding terrible. Good covers are few and far between. Malazan actually has some of the more consistently good covers. Steve Stone ftw \m/
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Posted 02 August 2010 - 10:51 AM
Harvester, on 02 August 2010 - 10:36 AM, said:
I like this set of covers, though. They're are simply yet effective.
The best thing about them is that they look all nice and color co-ordinated on your bookshelf (which is what I have) but other than that it's not 'really' cover art yeah...just in my purely subjective view
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Posted 02 August 2010 - 07:52 PM
Harvester, on 31 July 2010 - 01:51 PM, said:
BEHOLD!
Save us! House of White Santa Druids approaches! Untold story from Malazan Book of Fallen! Buy now or never!
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Posted 05 August 2010 - 09:23 AM
Good grief. Some of those covers are simply horrible. Heck, some of the titles would repel me just as well as the covers....
Natural Ordermage??
what was the woman thinking?
Natural Ordermage??
what was the woman thinking?
Screw you all, and have a nice day!
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Posted 11 August 2010 - 03:38 PM
I don't quite see the issue with the US covers for GOTM and MoI. I mean, sure, when I first looked at them, I had a kind of "man, are they serious here?" kind of face, but they aren't anywhere near as bad as the rest of the covers in this thread. Am I missing something?
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to spit in Sightblinders eye on the last day.
May you shelter in the palm of the Creator"s hand, and may the last embrace of the Mother welcome you home.
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Posted 15 August 2010 - 02:46 AM
I'll take questionable scene choice with high-quality artistic execution (Tor's MBotF covers) than a great scene terribly executed (anything by Darrell K. Sweet, etc.)
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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