8 replies

1. Rachel Stephens 19 min later

   @zachleat since you're asking this here and not in bluesky I'm assuming you don't want things to devolve into animorphs. :)

   I've always been partial to the original blue Catch-22 cover and I have a soft spot for the peacock feather version of the Pride and Prejudice cover. (though I guess Jane Austen isn't a great american novel...)

   1. Zach Leatherman 36 min later

      @rstephensme I was trying to make a joke about judging books by their covers but I failed *runs away*

2. tbeseda 22 min later

   @zachleat probably a Kurt Vonnegut

3. dan leatherman 29 min later

   @zachleat https://www.jessicahische.is/readingtheclassics

4. Eric Carlisle 1 hr later

   @zachleat : Good question! Got me thinking on this one… :ablobcatangel:

   Over time many of the greats have had a collection of covers but maintained some consistency in visual theme. I checked a few like Catch 22, The Grapes of Wrath and To Kill a Mockingbird.

   Being a fellow Font-Hound, I’m intrigued how The Great Gatsby’s common visual theme is often maintained in the title’s type rather than the imagery.

5. maxfenton 2 hr later

   @zachleat starting a flame war on a wednesday eh

   1. Zach Leatherman 4 hr later

      @maxfenton on hump day no one knows you’re a camel

6. Eric Portis 16 hr later

   @zachleat I mean it's hard to beat

   👁️👁️
   👄
   ✨

   but

   🟥
   🎠
   ⬜️

   comes close.

   (ya can't judge 'em this way of course but, I will say, I have better memories of these covers than the plot of either, a quarter-century on)