Does anyone have a bigger size picture of this? I'm looking for wallpaper size...
Does anyone have a bigger size picture of this? I'm looking for wallpaper size...
That is fantastic...where does it come from?
It's from the hardback to Lisey's Story. If your wondering who did it...Mark Stutzman did it.
http://www.eloqui.com/
Wow! The UK hardback cover sucks in comparison
DT: is yours the green one with the feather and the drop of blood aswell?
"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think." - Duma Key
zoneseek@thedarktower.com
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.
"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
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"?
In general UK King covers suck
I think the UK covers are too plain sometimes.
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?
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
I was just going to ask that question.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
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
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.
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
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.
Here are the US and UK Cell covers. The UK one is on the left.
John
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!).
John
I probably would have gone with the right one to release in the UK.
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.
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.
John
Well when the profits start to go down because nobody is buying, maybe then they will rethink conformity.