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#1 indy4

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Posted 14 July 2012 - 11:38 PM

Mine is probably the American cover to Half Blood Prince:

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Posted 14 July 2012 - 11:44 PM

I hold this copy of the hobbit near and dear to my heart
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Posted 15 July 2012 - 12:13 AM

Oh, that's a nice one.
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Posted 15 July 2012 - 12:24 AM

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 03:48 AM

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 04:31 AM

Mine is probably the American cover to Half Blood Prince:

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I definitely agree with you here. My other favorite is 50 Shades of Grey ....JK

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 10:32 AM



Since this is the version I grew up with, the classic German LOTR release by Klett Cotta still has a special place in my heart; the illustrations don't make a lot of sense, but they have class:

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I also love everything in HaperCollins' black paperback Tolkien series though:

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 10:44 AM

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 10:50 AM

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 11:20 AM

Looks photoshopped

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 11:30 AM

Yeah, just like you.

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 11:36 AM

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The lesbian clerk at Borders told me she liked this one too when I bought it.

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 11:40 AM

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 04:07 PM

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greatest cover ever.

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 04:08 PM

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I love collecting the Barnes and Noble leatherbound series and this is one of my favourites from them. There's an enormous amount of detail here.

But usually all the covers from that series are awesome.

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 04:45 PM

Love that! I have LOTR and Hobbit leather bound, but I only have Sherlock in regular hardback - THAT is amazing.

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 05:22 PM

I love my 50th anniversary edition of LOTR
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Posted 15 July 2012 - 05:26 PM

I had forgoten this one:

This is what got me into dragonlance
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Posted 15 July 2012 - 06:28 PM

I also love everything in HaperCollins' black paperback Tolkien series though


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Posted 15 July 2012 - 06:50 PM

I had forgoten this one:

This is what got me into dragonlance

Nice. The covers on my copies of Dragonlance are awful:
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Posted 15 July 2012 - 08:11 PM

I guess my favourite of all time had to be this:

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 10:17 PM

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 10:47 PM

Classic 90s Star Wars novel retrospect:

- Luke on the SOTE cover is dressed like a trucker and Prince Xizor looks like a Power Rangers villain.

- Wow, is that buff wizard guy on the Heir to the Empire cover lame. So NOT Star Wars.
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Posted 15 July 2012 - 11:18 PM

and both were done by the great Drew Struzan!

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 11:42 PM

and both were done by the great Drew Struzan!


nope, struzan did not do the thrawn trilogy.

Xizor looks like michael ironside


I had forgoten this one:

This is what got me into dragonlance

Nice. The covers on my copies of Dragonlance are awful:


um is that the junior version? the new versions of the young adult novels have nice covers, and all Weis & HIckman books have matching covers (except dragons of the hourglass mage... which has a different spine thanks to wizards of the coast new layout)
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Posted 16 July 2012 - 12:13 AM

Ah, yes. Now I can't remember the other novels he did.

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Posted 16 July 2012 - 12:20 AM

I liked these as a child because they depicted slight nakedness:

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Posted 16 July 2012 - 05:26 AM

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One of my favorite books of all time. Read it three times. Damn now I'm hankering to read it again!

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Posted 16 July 2012 - 08:10 AM

I thought it was qui-gon and darth maul on tatooine :lol:
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Posted 17 July 2012 - 09:45 AM

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Wonderful cover. Beautiful.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 10:53 PM

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 01:00 AM

Carrie! It! Love me some Stephen king! Older stuff better!!

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 04:42 AM

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I'm in the middle of this now. Reading it for the 2nd time, great stuff. One of King's best.

Love this book cover. Classic.

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 05:30 AM

Wasn't a fan of the movie IT but Tim curry was scary in it.

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 08:18 AM

I'm in the middle of this now. Reading it for the 2nd time, great stuff. One of King's best.


Word! :thumbup:


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Posted 21 July 2012 - 08:24 AM

This one has been one of my favourites for a while now, by Ted Nasmith:
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Same artist, same book, different cover:
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And this is indeed a quintessential cover for Lord of the Rings. A great shame that the original painting was stolen from Howe and is now lost. :(
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Also this interesting and elegant art by Claire Scully caught my eye:
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