I'm so glad I inspired you to make this video as it was so interesting!! The reason I don't like movie covers is it encourages people to compare book to movie and - ultimately - judge which one was better. It also encourages book people to belittle filmmaking as somehow an inferior art form and "movies are fluff compared to books", to make up for the fact that more people will experience the movie version than the book version. I don't agree that filmmaking is an inferior medium. I don't think we need to compare book to movie, but when the book even looks like the movie, it's hard not to. I like thinking of them as separate things, which is easier to do without a movie cover. I'm so glad you showed the succession of oil painting covers! It really got the point across. So dull and looks just like the rest of them because classics are all the same, right? I wish all classics had covers that were designed specifically for them. If there was a front illustration that had details from the actually story, I'd be so pleased. And maybe some lovely typography. I'd also love if each author's works looked harmonious in a set some what and that all of each author's works was in that collection. That would be my dream! (I'm really liking the ones from Roads, though I don't own any roads.co/books/books-category/classic-books) P.S. Did you know it's Caroline Herschel's birthday today?
+Amanda Center (IntrovertX) Thank you! Hmmm, what you say is very interesting and I do typically think that movies with original screen plays are better than adaptations. One thing that also bothers me is when fans of a book will be upset that little minute details are different in the movie than they were in the book - like you say, I just view them almost as two separate things. It's a more enjoyable way to experience both pieces that way. I do too! I think hopefully it might be a growing trend -that would be AMAZING!!! Wow - these are incredibly beautiful and different from any other thing I've seen. Are these designs on dust jackets or also on the book cover itself? Kate (Novel Nomad) just commented that - the stars are aligned. Pun totally and completely intended.
I love when publishers have taken effort to not only consider the story/time period/significant imagery in Classics but market them without gender divisions. I find the Penguin English Library are simplistic and effective in this. Also, the portrait covers tend to bug me since most of the images do not correspond to the time period within the book, that my be my history nerd coming out, but if they are going to have ladies pictures on the covers, at least have them in appropriate fashion for the era.
yes! I couldn't agree more that penguin Deluxe don't really seem to Market to a particular gender... One of my pet peeves is when they put Victorian portraits on Jane Austen books, ugh!
I have the same cover of I Capture the Castle, even though I ordered a different cover, and I absolutely hate it!! I do have some movie tie in covers on my shelf because I base my picks off of personal aesthetics, so often times I just don't like the look of a cover but I do see how it can bring "non-readers" to a new book. I really love pretty much any Virago covers but the Penguin deluxe editions are my favourites and I hope to collect them all!
thank you! Yes, I love what Virago and penguin Deluxe Classics have done. They're all unique and beautiful and a lot of times the penguin Deluxe are really relevant to the story line.
Kate, first I must say it is so great you have been doing so many videos recently :) I am rewatching this because there was so much good stuff to comment on so sorry if this is a super long comment haha. I used to not care for movie covers but now I just like whichever is prettier between the poster cover or the original. Actually though I heard somewhere that the LOTR tie in editions messed up some of the original text (left some out) but I never firmly confirmed that. I like flowers too but I agree. How I am with portrait and landscape covers is if I find it ugly I won't get it but if I think it is pretty and pertains to the story I like them. ex. I actually like the bleak house cover because that is how I picture the house and my cover of FFMC is a woman with a dog in a big field, which I think illustrated the plot well. I really hate our Larkrise cover! so ugly! I also think all the Dover Thrift covers are super ugly. I hate to say but I actually disagree about the Twilight-y covers but that isn't because I don't want teen twilight fans to be introduced to much better literature, it is because I was so frustrated that Stephenie Meyer "modelled" each of her 4 books on those classics (except for Eclipse being Wuthering Heights, that one I believe lol). My general solution to the cover problem with classics is if idk if I will like the book, get the cheesy cover edition from the library and then invest in a gorgeous edition if I do like it and if I think I will definitely like it, research a gorgeous copy in advance (or if it is a translated work, hope that the translation I want is pretty like the Pevear War and Peace or the penguin clothbound Les Miserables).
before booktube I didn't know about Book Depository and I wish I had, because it shows you just how many different covers there are four classics... I still don't mind that about the Stephenie Meyer book covers because I think so few people actually take that part of her book seriously. I don't like thinking that her teen romances or anything like Jane Austen or the Brontes!
Awesome video! I think people might be offended by my copy of Pride and Prejudice because it's the 2004 Keira Knightley movie cover that people tend to be hostile toward 😂😂 those covers at the end were absolutely gorgeous! I loved Rebecca
+That's What She Read Thank you! Haha - I actually used to own that one and I tend to actually like movie covers...Right! Can't wait to read it with you!
Best video ever! :) I loved this - seeing all the classics in such a variety! I do agree though that its just beyond boring with the antique paintings on so many of them.. I do feel though thats its a tendency which has changed quite a lot during the last years - especially with all Penguins great new editions (clothbound, PEN, dropcaps etc), Barnes & Noble's leatherbound classics, Persephone and such - its getting better and better! :) xx
thank you! yes, I think Persephone is especially interesting because of all of their matching covers. I think that was them though it's an elegant simplicity. I absolutely love all of their Persephone Classics Editions as well.
Yes, they truly make very beautiful books.. unfortunately I find that most of the stories they publish isnt really something I find that interesting (with few exceptions - for instance Virgnia Woolf's diary - that is so cool!)
Great video and great discussion! I don't like film covers much, but that's mostly because my preference is for books without pictures of people on the covers, especially without photographs on the cover. I like patterns and abstract art on covers best :) And yes, what is up with all the generic pictures of random women on classics?! Personally I enjoy a nice dramatic landscape!
I just love this video! I agree with all you've said. Although, I must say that actually that famous man on the mountain picture kinda works with Frankenstein's plot, I'd say. It makes me think of how Victor fled to the Alps at some point :P
I'm so glad I inspired you to make this video as it was so interesting!!
The reason I don't like movie covers is it encourages people to compare book to movie and - ultimately - judge which one was better. It also encourages book people to belittle filmmaking as somehow an inferior art form and "movies are fluff compared to books", to make up for the fact that more people will experience the movie version than the book version. I don't agree that filmmaking is an inferior medium. I don't think we need to compare book to movie, but when the book even looks like the movie, it's hard not to. I like thinking of them as separate things, which is easier to do without a movie cover.
I'm so glad you showed the succession of oil painting covers! It really got the point across. So dull and looks just like the rest of them because classics are all the same, right?
I wish all classics had covers that were designed specifically for them. If there was a front illustration that had details from the actually story, I'd be so pleased. And maybe some lovely typography. I'd also love if each author's works looked harmonious in a set some what and that all of each author's works was in that collection. That would be my dream! (I'm really liking the ones from Roads, though I don't own any roads.co/books/books-category/classic-books)
P.S. Did you know it's Caroline Herschel's birthday today?
+Amanda Center (IntrovertX)
Thank you!
Hmmm, what you say is very interesting and I do typically think that movies with original screen plays are better than adaptations. One thing that also bothers me is when fans of a book will be upset that little minute details are different in the movie than they were in the book - like you say, I just view them almost as two separate things. It's a more enjoyable way to experience both pieces that way.
I do too! I think hopefully it might be a growing trend -that would be AMAZING!!! Wow - these are incredibly beautiful and different from any other thing I've seen. Are these designs on dust jackets or also on the book cover itself?
Kate (Novel Nomad) just commented that - the stars are aligned. Pun totally and completely intended.
+Kate Howe Hahaha! I liked your pun! I have no idea about what the Roads classics look like in person, but I do think they're paperbacks...
Such a fantastic video! Very interesting :) nice to see all the different covers. I love the newer ones ;)
Thank you! Kudos to the people who design unique and beautiful covers for classics.
A very interesting and informative video. Lots of fun.
I love when publishers have taken effort to not only consider the story/time period/significant imagery in Classics but market them without gender divisions. I find the Penguin English Library are simplistic and effective in this.
Also, the portrait covers tend to bug me since most of the images do not correspond to the time period within the book, that my be my history nerd coming out, but if they are going to have ladies pictures on the covers, at least have them in appropriate fashion for the era.
yes! I couldn't agree more that penguin Deluxe don't really seem to Market to a particular gender... One of my pet peeves is when they put Victorian portraits on Jane Austen books, ugh!
I have the same cover of I Capture the Castle, even though I ordered a different cover, and I absolutely hate it!! I do have some movie tie in covers on my shelf because I base my picks off of personal aesthetics, so often times I just don't like the look of a cover but I do see how it can bring "non-readers" to a new book. I really love pretty much any Virago covers but the Penguin deluxe editions are my favourites and I hope to collect them all!
thank you! Yes, I love what Virago and penguin Deluxe Classics have done. They're all unique and beautiful and a lot of times the penguin Deluxe are really relevant to the story line.
Kate, first I must say it is so great you have been doing so many videos recently :) I am rewatching this because there was so much good stuff to comment on so sorry if this is a super long comment haha. I used to not care for movie covers but now I just like whichever is prettier between the poster cover or the original. Actually though I heard somewhere that the LOTR tie in editions messed up some of the original text (left some out) but I never firmly confirmed that. I like flowers too but I agree. How I am with portrait and landscape covers is if I find it ugly I won't get it but if I think it is pretty and pertains to the story I like them. ex. I actually like the bleak house cover because that is how I picture the house and my cover of FFMC is a woman with a dog in a big field, which I think illustrated the plot well. I really hate our Larkrise cover! so ugly! I also think all the Dover Thrift covers are super ugly. I hate to say but I actually disagree about the Twilight-y covers but that isn't because I don't want teen twilight fans to be introduced to much better literature, it is because I was so frustrated that Stephenie Meyer "modelled" each of her 4 books on those classics (except for Eclipse being Wuthering Heights, that one I believe lol). My general solution to the cover problem with classics is if idk if I will like the book, get the cheesy cover edition from the library and then invest in a gorgeous edition if I do like it and if I think I will definitely like it, research a gorgeous copy in advance (or if it is a translated work, hope that the translation I want is pretty like the Pevear War and Peace or the penguin clothbound Les Miserables).
before booktube I didn't know about Book Depository and I wish I had, because it shows you just how many different covers there are four classics... I still don't mind that about the Stephenie Meyer book covers because I think so few people actually take that part of her book seriously. I don't like thinking that her teen romances or anything like Jane Austen or the Brontes!
Awesome video! I think people might be offended by my copy of Pride and Prejudice because it's the 2004 Keira Knightley movie cover that people tend to be hostile toward 😂😂 those covers at the end were absolutely gorgeous! I loved Rebecca
+That's What She Read Thank you! Haha - I actually used to own that one and I tend to actually like movie covers...Right! Can't wait to read it with you!
Best video ever! :) I loved this - seeing all the classics in such a variety! I do agree though that its just beyond boring with the antique paintings on so many of them.. I do feel though thats its a tendency which has changed quite a lot during the last years - especially with all Penguins great new editions (clothbound, PEN, dropcaps etc), Barnes & Noble's leatherbound classics, Persephone and such - its getting better and better! :) xx
thank you! yes, I think Persephone is especially interesting because of all of their matching covers. I think that was them though it's an elegant simplicity. I absolutely love all of their Persephone Classics Editions as well.
Yes, they truly make very beautiful books.. unfortunately I find that most of the stories they publish isnt really something I find that interesting (with few exceptions - for instance Virgnia Woolf's diary - that is so cool!)
Great video and great discussion! I don't like film covers much, but that's mostly because my preference is for books without pictures of people on the covers, especially without photographs on the cover. I like patterns and abstract art on covers best :) And yes, what is up with all the generic pictures of random women on classics?! Personally I enjoy a nice dramatic landscape!
thank you! Yes, often times too they look sad and just kind of generally miserable. I'm all for more variety of classic covers.
loved this video , so interesting. thank you :0)
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
I just love this video! I agree with all you've said. Although, I must say that actually that famous man on the mountain picture kinda works with Frankenstein's plot, I'd say. It makes me think of how Victor fled to the Alps at some point :P
suitable boy is not a classic.