Strange, interesting, bizarre, or cursed book, or book covers that you found

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PaperDummy
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Strange, interesting, bizarre, or cursed book, or book covers that you found

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So what type of strange, interesting, or cursed books or covers have you seen or found?
This is not intended to be an attack, or hate against the writers. This is meant to be just some fun, and looking at strange, interesting, bizarre, or cursed books and covers.
I'll start.
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By the way. This is the first book in a series, and this book is wild.

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I haven't read this, but I need an adult animated movie adoptation of this.

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No comment

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What?

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By the way. This book won a Hugo award, and has two sequals.

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By thw way. This book is getting adopted into a series by Tubi.

And last but not least:
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I'm sorry, but this is so bad, that it's funny.
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Re: Strange, interesting, bizarre, or cursed book, or book covers that you found

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PaperDummy wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2026 6:40 pmImage
I haven't read this, but I need an adult animated movie adoptation of this.
Makes we wonder if we need a comic book panels thread.

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"What, read the book? I got covers to grind out!"

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"Carl, we don't think you're sacrificing as efficiently as you could."

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This one kind of speaks for itself.
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Re: Strange, interesting, bizarre, or cursed book, or book covers that you found

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MisterZ wrote: Sun Jul 12, 2026 6:57 pm
PaperDummy wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2026 6:40 pmImage
I haven't read this, but I need an adult animated movie adoptation of this.
Makes we wonder if we need a comic book panels thread.
This is comady gold. We maybe need it.

Speaking of bad book covers for classics
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What doas this have to do with Kafka's Metamorphosis? It would be fine for any other book, but why this?

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I'm not a biologist, but I think that's a shark.

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Why is this so funny? Is going bankcrupt actually hard?

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This is how I imagine BoJack Horseman would look like if the show's artstyle was realistic.

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Chuck Tingles's another classic.