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Agreed. And they should have cut the random penguin.Jonathan C. Gillespie said:I love the concept, but they should have done something like this:
1984Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently.We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.
No, a mockery of modern art is Amazon's covers for all the old James Bond novels. <shudder>tensen said:Personally I think they tried to do a mock of modern art.
^^^ This was my thought, too.olefish said:the simple starkness of the elements makes the company logo much too prominent. whatever boldness or they were going is effectively muted by the penguin and company logo. Fail.
I got all excited, hoping to see something cool and dystopian looking, and they give me this? Yuk. 1984 is only a passably readable book to me anyway, I get what they were doing. But wow. Would never make me want to give it another try or pick it up for "collecting". I mean, if I wanted to collect 1984, I'd get myself a first edition signed copy. Not a fugly Penguin Classic.Dalya said:Those are all ugly and I hate them.