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    :radioactive: Lisey's Story

    Does anyone have a bigger size picture of this? I'm looking for wallpaper size...

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    That is fantastic...where does it come from?

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    It's from the hardback to Lisey's Story. If your wondering who did it...Mark Stutzman did it.
    http://www.eloqui.com/

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    Wow! The UK hardback cover sucks in comparison

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    DT: is yours the green one with the feather and the drop of blood aswell?
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    Yep:

    (It looks blue in this shot, but its definately a greeny-turquoise colour!)
    Inside the the cover its just plain red with no illustrations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkthoughts View Post
    Yep:

    (It looks blue in this shot, but its definately a greeny-turquoise colour!)
    Inside the the cover its just plain red with no illustrations.
    Yeah, thats a lame cover alright.
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    "When the King comes and the Tower falls, sai, all such pretty things as yours will be broken. Then there will be darkness and nothing but the howl of Discordia and the cries of the can toi" - From Song of Susannah

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    I was never too fond of that cover. I always liked the shovel because it could pop up some very good questions for a new reader just picking it up. For instance "What does the shovel mean"?

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    In general UK King covers suck

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    I think the UK covers are too plain sometimes.

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    They are, and I don't understand why. The Cell cover, for example, was plain ugly! Anyone know why there are different covers - why the publishers don't use the same covers for the same book?

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    What they think will interest folk in certain markets/countries I'm guessing.
    "It's his eyes, Roland thought. They were wide and terrible, the eyes of a dragon in human form" - Roland seeing the Crimson King for the first time.

    "When the King comes and the Tower falls, sai, all such pretty things as yours will be broken. Then there will be darkness and nothing but the howl of Discordia and the cries of the can toi" - From Song of Susannah

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    I was just going to ask that question.



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    Quote Originally Posted by All_Hail_The_Crimson_King View Post
    What they think will interest folk in certain markets/countries I'm guessing.
    Wow...thats a distressing answer judging by the UK covers - they must think we're a right load of artistically challenged, boring gits

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    Or appreciate sublter covers more than Americans.
    "It's his eyes, Roland thought. They were wide and terrible, the eyes of a dragon in human form" - Roland seeing the Crimson King for the first time.

    "When the King comes and the Tower falls, sai, all such pretty things as yours will be broken. Then there will be darkness and nothing but the howl of Discordia and the cries of the can toi" - From Song of Susannah

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    Some are subtle - the DT hardbacks show different views (in perspective) of the Tower and are in different colours, which I quite liked. And some of the Hodder and Staughton paperback covers are ok...but generally they're...bleck!...I'll see if I can find a picture of the Cell cover and you'll see what I mean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by funky dredd View Post
    One cool thing about the U.S. presentation is that the shovel on the red dustjacket is not printed on the dustjacket - it is a really a cut-out in the shape of the shovel. So with the dustjacket on the book you are seeing the actual book behind it.
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    Ya, I went as far as cutting the paper on my brodart so that the book would show. It's not perfect but it works.

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    Here are the US and UK Cell covers. The UK one is on the left.

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    Here are the US and UK Lisey's Story covers. The one on the right is a proof cover from the UK. I've only seen two copies of it (and I have one of the two!).

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    I probably would have gone with the right one to release in the UK.

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    I prefer that too.

    As for the Cell cover, I haven't seen that UK one you have John, the most mass produced one I've seen in just red, white and black - although the UK publisher Hodder have just reissued all their King books with new covers - this is the newest cover for Cell:

    all the other books are much the same, a bold colour with one graphic - eyecatching I guess, but still boring.

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    The UK Cell I pictured is the hardcover edition. I've not seen the UK paperback, but I agree that the one you show is very boring! I wonder what those publishers are thinking! They seem to be sacrificing everything interesting for conformity.

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    Well when the profits start to go down because nobody is buying, maybe then they will rethink conformity.

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