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03:05 twilight
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04:26 pride and prejudice MURICA
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05:22 we were liars
05:55 john green looking for Alaska
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06:28 anne of green gables
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[@itsdivyag]

more in the series: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZ3YlJlvfaqSq8U !! i made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement, and I don’t expect to be forgiven. So what I did in the video was simply unplanned and the statement you saw was raw, it was unfiltered. I should have never said those things. I should have put the mic down, and stopped saying what I was thinking through. There were a lot of things I should have done differently, but I didn't, and for that from the bottom of my heart, I am sorry for stating that Benjamin Franklin was a president instead of a founding father.

[@alyssavon5246]

On behalf of the Supreme Court of Booktube, we pardon this grievous mistake.

[@ultimatefandom3127]

Extremely disappointing, Divya smdh.

[@madelinevance8954]

I had the presidents and the years they served memorized for two years in middle school. Somehow I missed this.

[@Marandahir]

Lol find your video hilarious but literally came to post because I didn't see anyone commenting about it in the first 20 or so comments that showed up on my TV's youtube. Glad you recognise it was a mistake!

[@ashkhri]

There's no way people actually care

[@addy4192]

I just guessed pride and prejudice for all of them until I got one right

[@The_Cult_Nextdoor]

Lmao! Same. 😅

[@itsdivyag]

you have learnt the tricks of the trade

[@sleepy.timaeus.arts.]

OH MY GOD!! i read this comment and went “lol, i’ll do the same then” right before the pride and prejudice one came up 😭 imagine my absolute SHOCK at 4:39 🤣 edit: minor spelling error

[@ijustdocomments6777]

Weirdly same...

[@CrisOnTheInternet]

​@@sleepy.timaeus.arts.I'm crying about that cover like how the missed that bad 😂😂😂

[@captainbaekho]

the abs covers with the one BIG word are legit HILARIOUS

[@solinus7131]

who made these covers??? they have the exact same font so I feel like a designer or publisher was responsible for this

[@aznSeddie]

My brain started reading all 3 titles as 1 complete title and immediately regretted it, lol. 😅

[@sgfuckinghuntress]

i feel like the graphic designer for that is just being silly and pranking people into reading classic stories while thinking they're opening a romance book 😂

[@m.i7211]

This video literally explains that the covers were designed intentionally from 8:13, did y’all even watch the video??

[@fulana_de_tal]

ngl that is kind of a genious publishing move

[@Armistice_]

I choked from laughter with that Communist Little Women, I legit thought it was supposed to be Mao's red book or something

[@JemimaDoesASMR]

I thought it was Mao's Last Dancer bc it's very similar to one of the *actual* covers for it, but oml I died at the reveal

[@SM-ky6pb]

I just know the answer is gonna be far from what the cover is portraying so I guessed war and peace but I didn't expect it to be THAT far off lol

[@pillbugm8914]

I thought it was some kind of translated work or literal history book, but wow.

[@alexanderrobertson3526]

I guessed it was a very very literal cover for Nineteen Eighty Four

[@nctandtheirjollyenglishuncles]

The cover is absolutely hilarious, but it got me thinking that an AU in which Little Women is set in China during the Cultural Revolution could be quite intriguing, maybe with the March sisters becoming Red Guards. It would kind of fit, because of the themes of civil war and ideological radicalism present in the book.

[@aliottz]

Lolita may be the worst case of bad book covers, it's almost criminal

[@luisostasuc8135]

I wonder if we as the jury can suggest summary execution?

[@initiatinreallife]

Honestly, in some cases, with how they sexualize a literal 13 year old? *Actually* criminal.

[@VVesteria]

That one picture of an older man looking down with a very slimy undertone to it is perfect I think

[@XanIndigo]

Are they just trying to make these books embarrassing to read in public? Like, who's honestly going to sit on the train with a book that has a headless torso on the cover with big letters saying DICK?

[@kendra_t]

I would, but I like to do a little trolling

[@itsdivyag]

"hey what you reading?" "the story about the whale but also the quest for meaning, revenge and the human condition. You know, Moby Dick"

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

Like Charlie Stross once said "I wonder if there's a secondary market for fake dust-jackets for the easily-embarrassed reader, bearing the correct name and title but a different illustration?"

[@ijustdocomments6777]

What's there to be embarrassed about tho? It's a classic novel about obsession, revenge and whaling...

[@19Rena96]

The COVER obviously @@ijustdocomments6777

[@ultimatefandom3127]

I appreciate how sensitively and intelligently you approached the subject of Lolita and brought it to attention.

[@itsdivyag]

♡♡

[@dionysus_adores]

Oh yeah like dude Lolita is about a pedo obsessing over a LITTLE GIRL

[@abbyd1864]

I don't actually know if my favorite Lolita cover design made it to print, but it is a white background with a pink crused lollypop. It really strikes a chord with me because lollypops have become ubiquitous with the famous image of Lolita and also symbolize youth. The fact that it's crushed is heartbreaking

[@itsdivyag]

i think i know the cover you mean! that one's pretty good and you're right it takes that imagery and reverses it with the whole crushed innocence symbolism

[@miriamceraman4932]

I think Lolita is an amazing work, and a work hardly anyone would have the courage to write these days; Vladimir Nabokov often said he didn't want any girl's on the front cover of the book cuz he knew how they'd be portrayed, but as you can see, no one ever listened to him. It was never Nabokov 'sexualising' girls - it was the publishing industry itself!

[@screamingbean7509]

It’s so upsetting how he didn’t want them to be on the cover BECAUSE he knew they would get sexualized, the publishing industry really is something else in regards to that. Hell not even just that, just making book covers in general hyper sexual for stories that either have nothing to do with sexual content or are directly opposed to those notions. And then there’s ones that just look like the “graphic design is my passion” meme

[@miriamceraman4932]

@@screamingbean7509 EXACTLY! Nabokov must be rolling in his grave with fury right now, seeing people refuse to read his book because it 'enables' the sexualisation of children like NO IT BLOODY DOESN'T????

[@Theomite]

Oddly enough I think that B&W Vintage cover is the only one that did "that" kind of cover right because it isn't a comforting image. It feels wrong just to look at it but the act of doing so makes you realize that the character is seeing something you're not. So you already start off the book knowing that shit is fucked up.

[@miriamceraman4932]

@@Theomite exactly; you start off the book feeling queasy

[@Theomite]

@@miriamceraman4932 Also, the posture of the legs suggests scared and vulnerable which adds to the disquiet of the image. It strangely manages to subvert the expected objectification by the very act of doing so. I've always looked at that cover and imagined a frightened child, not a sex object.

[@Justapikachu577]

I think all the Lolita covers that try to make Delores look sexy should have a infinite life sentence

[@Nebulousart]

to be honest, the lolita part struck a chord in me. i’ve had no desire to read it for years but learning the original intent for the cover and the way popular culture has been ethically irresponsible in portraying the contents of yhem cover, thus influencing the perception of people who merely look at covers and don’t read them… it just made me realize that the reason i was so averse to it was the subconscious influence of these depictions through the eyes of the predator that i thought the book was condoning his actions (in a sense)

[@asterismos5451]

There's an amazing ~10m video essay analyzing different covers of Lolita, it's really interesting, highly recommend!

[@alltheworldatmyfeet]

I'm in full agreement. I was told to read it for class in college when I was still a minor and I remember being utterly disgusted because of the exploitative movies and the culture surrounding it. But looking back, I'm glad I read it whether it was the right time for me to do it or not. The original Lolita book design is so interesting in a modern sense because covers for us are meant to convey the story somehow and hook us but I have legitimately no idea what I'm supposed to get if I never heard of Lolita and saw it. I'd assume Lolita was the main protagonist and it was her story like a Jane Eyre type of drama. Something dry and cold. But knowing, I think it pretty much fits. Or a Pic of Humbert Humbert.

[@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult]

Lol I read Lolita when I was 19 bc I used to romanticize it (I had no idea Lolita was 12 before reading it). I was expecting a cute romance, and ended up crying for Lolita.

[@renskedunnewold1995]

That Little Women reveal almost made me spit out my coffee 😂

[@elisabethherzog9369]

Same especially since I’m reading that book right now, can’t wait to get to the China part 😂

[@operagirl0101]

Got chocked on my own spit when it revealed

[@The_Open_Book]

Marketing is marketing, but at some point the book designers do have an ethical responsibility. Not just in cases of Lolita where it's like, "what are you endorsing here vs the book's content" but like with all the other hypersexualized unrelated covers. It's not just marketing, it's *false* advertising; it's lying.

[@itsdivyag]

true! for other books i understand designers have to grapple with current marketing trends and whatnot but not push it to extremes. it's also not even helpful for the reader who expects one thing and gets another. it reminds me of clickbait

[@emilyr8668]

what's crazy about the 'age up' lolita covers is that H.H. actively despises adult women. he doesnt ever try to justify his abuse of dolores by saying she's really an adult, its that he believes she is a disturbing child. its just pure delusion on the part of the publishing industry and a total lack of care of the source material

[@MaidOfPasta]

The entire Sheba Blake graphic design team needs to be sacked

[@itsdivyag]

the covers would be p decent if they just invest in a quick google search

[@MaidOfPasta]

@@itsdivyagEXACTLYYYYY

[@temtem8110]

The cover of Lolita with Humbert on it is one of the best ones, in my opinion. It’s off putting, its disturbing, and its a strong juxtaposition of a childish nickname and soft colors to the image of ecstasy on an adult man’s face. Coupled with the book’s unfortunate reputation, it delivers a sobering level of shock to the viewer. It is incredibly upsetting that the public now shares a POV of Dolores with her abuser, so I think it is only fair to expect designers to take the novel’s publishing history into account. Make the cover unpleasant, make it harrowing. People expect a seductress? Hit them with a child molester

[@AnnekeOosterink]

I can't remember if I dreamed it up, or if I really saw it, but I remember a cover of Lolita of a flower being crushed in a very tense male hand. Which imo gives the appropriate message. Personally I like really simple covers the most, I have a fairly minimal taste when it comes to book covers. Classic paintings for classic lit can work, so long as it's at least from the same time. Like, if a cover of an Austen novel features a portrait of a woman from 1800-1820 that's fine with me. Or like, a fairly neutral landscape or whatever. If you can't find a specific image that fits the story, go generic I guess.

[@sgfuckinghuntress]

it's a real cover!! i saw it in a video essay discussing lolita's book covers :) my personal favourite is the one where the cover depicts humbert with the title "lolita" on him, because to me that really shows that lolita is an idea created by humbert, and not an actual representation of who dolores was

[@m.i7211]

Isn’t that the one on the left in 11:13 and the video that both of you are referring to is probably also the video by man holding things mentioned in this video as well.

[@LadyDragonbane]

I think the one with the pink wall corner works too. Girly but no girl, not explicit but has a claustrophobic/trapped vibe

[@sgfuckinghuntress]

@@m.i7211 oh i missed it while i was watching the video but yes, that's what i was talking about!!

[@AnnekeOosterink]

@@LadyDragonbane It is quite suggestive without actually showing a human body. The Y shape is often shorthand for female anatomy.

[@_victoria427]

the classics just kept getting worse and worse i'm literally traumatized

[@itsdivyag]

better and better*

[@user-by7to8xj2e]

Nabokov was a victim of CSA himself, which is why the last thing he wanted was for lolita to be interpreted as a love story. These covers do exactly that to anyone who is unfamiliar with the story. It's disgusting

[@Melpomium]

The Wordsworth Classics covers are so bad that they become good. You know their art department consists of exactly one person who lied on their resume struggling to design that crap. I love it

[@itsdivyag]

one of the designers commented on my previous video in this series and rest assured they're going to rehaul a lot of these haha

[@Melpomium]

@@itsdivyag the power you yield! And you're using it for good 🙏

[@edwwi]

A good cover for Lolita with a girl on it would be something like a young girl, teen looking through the mirror, and there's a big man's hands behind her, putting a red lipstick on her, and the lipstick is smudged Red lipstick is a symbol of s-x, and he made her that for him, he put that label on her, she did nothing. I think that would give that disgusting, uneasy vibe that we're supposed to get from that story.

[@georgethompson913]

Or have a clearly 12 Lolita eating a large oversized lollipop with a man's shadow replacing her own.

[@MsGloomyLamp]

Came for the laughs, stayed for the serious discussion of book cover ethics

[@iurlure]

"We were liars" was also localized in Russian as "The fault in our lies" (that's what the cover says). THE AUDACITY.

[@elsiest.irvyne9515]

And it wasn't the only! There were at least two more YA books as a series when the publisher put the fault into the title. Just for sales. (Though some people thought that other novels were a plagiarism and were slow to buy them because of that).

[@Armistice_]

The Lolita cover with the guy looking like a pervert is excellent, and the only good way to portray that story

[@itsdivyag]

it reminds me of the a little life cover a bit

[@Armistice_]

@@itsdivyag Yeah kinda. I also watched the ManCarryngThing video you referenced, really good stuff. The Lolita covers always gave me the creeps

[@properantagonist]

My favourite modern cover I've seen for Lolita was one with a shattered heart-shaped lollipop. I think it's simple, yet eye-catching and very symbolic.

[@-alovelygaycat-]

Now I kinda want to make a rendition of Nobokov’s vision of Lolita’s cover. Though I’ll probably try and add something to it that makes it clear it isn’t like a kid’s book or a romance novel. First idea that came to my head was a dead dove, since doves are often symbols of purity. Also, Dead Dove: No Not Eat.

[@fulana_de_tal]

I kinda made a sketch of something vaguely like it, but i tried to add in the classical "girl sucking on a lollipop", but show how she's just a child It ended up a bit like this: a roadside sunset scene with a sky full of soft clouds in the tinted sky, mountains and cars passing by on the background, on the foreground a car parked on the right corner of the page mostly out of frame and in the center a man on the right creepily looks down at a young girl on the left, she's wearing a schoool uniform and carrying a backpack, she innocently looks up back at him while sucking on a lollipop in a very childish manner (think "kid in an oldschool superhero animation that has to be saved last second in an amusement park"), while holding one of the straps of her backpack with her other hand. On the sky, that covers most of the page, the title rests written in messy print handwritting.

[@-alovelygaycat-]

@@fulana_de_tal That actually sounds quite nice. I’d love to see that cover. Sounds much more respectful than many of Lolita’s covers.

[@fulana_de_tal]

@@-alovelygaycat- thanks, i'm not sure if my sketch would live up to my description of it tho :)

[@fictionaldarling]

desperately need the ISBN for that sherlock cover bc that would be the campiest christmas present ever 😅

[@itsdivyag]

unfortunately i think it's either just an ad campaign or an e-book cover

[@aino-kaisav5504]

8:46 I can imagine how absolutely horrified Sherlock Holmes would be if he was real and saw companies marketing his cases with a cover like this.

[@theshire9173]

I love how that one company just went with abs for every cover intentionally. What even is the business of designing new book covers anyway

[@LlamasAtMidnight]

For the one with Mao and the little boy I guessed Oliver Twist (knowing how weird these book covers can get I assumed that because there was a young boy who looked slightly sad maybe they could get something there) and oh boy I was both so much closer than I should be and also miles off

[@adonysus]

“He’s a US president” GIRL NO HE WAS NOT

[@violetmeliora763]

Extraordinary Attorney Woo is honestly so iconic 💙

[@itsdivyag]

great series

[@sleepinghusky19]

This makes me feel better about my graphic design skills, like I may not be great but I’ve never made something as bad as these

[@geoffcavanough9131]

I’ve been reading Nabokov’s books, and when I was looking for a copy of Lolita, it was so hard to find one that wasn’t disgusting 🤮 the penguin modern classics one has a still life painting

[@kendra_t]

Lol, I remember finding that Mistborn cover in the cover gallery and sending it to all my friends who read the book like "Red-headed half-naked Kelsier?"

[@happyjellycatsquid]

Personally, I prefer the original cover for Lolita to all the versions I’ve seen AND to Nabokov’s vision. I find that the description of the cover he wanted might end up looking too uplifting when Lolita is anything but that. The green is peaceful and pure while also evoking envy and jealousy, feelings that are no stranger to Humbert’s character. It’s plain in a very dignified manner and it’s perfectly ambiguous enough for Lolita. Anyways thanks for coming to my TED talk, I hope I might one day replace my repulsive edition of Lolita with a mord… moral one.

[@zamiyaFlow]

5:30 the faults in our liars is just incredible as a concept

[@itsdivyag]

bring back 2014 books

[@LiamHagan]

Oh my god, I have that Wordsworth edition of Don Quixote. It's a 300 year old translation too, so it's virtually unreadable. The whole package is a complete mess.

[@manmoy4104]

The Moby Shark and the one about Rome 😭

[@funbibakare7414]

This video is such a vibe I love it!! I'd love for you to review your favourite covers from the Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl book. A group of graphic designers design their own version of the book Lolita and it's so interesting to see the many variations of the book covers and what the story means to each of them.

[@itsdivyag]

ooo interesting idea! might be my way back into tiktok/shorts

[@dogcollar]

miss lola has some really good videos about lolita adaptations, although i forget if she has one about covers specifically

[@MortMe0430]

Moby Dick, Little Women both had me giving a laugh, but I legit snorted at the 'murican P and P. Who was smoking what crack? Edit: aww, all the poor pride and prejudices!! It did nothing to deserve that abuse! Oh God all those Lolitas!!! I need to wipe my mind.

[@ciscl]

3:06 Oh yes, 小女人 by mao zedong 😂😂😂

[@isabelaconsolim4434]

I'm sorry, but the moby DICK cover was genious 😂 with a whale tattoo? Are you kidding me? Incredible 👏👏👏

[@whatsmyname7218]

girl you are funny. im literally obsessed. also i've watched the man carrying thing video too and love the way you approacch Lolita with the just sensitivity cause so many peopl justify and romanicise it

[@itsdivyag]

man carrying thing video is so awesome. also tysm for the sweet comment

[@whatsmyname7218]

@@itsdivyag ofc! best wishes x

[@helheim79b61]

The Holmes Cover killed me. (As a great fan of the books) Like they don't care at all about the books. I don't think Holmes's in book appearance would be considered attractive by most. It's a shame. It's a Sherlock Holmes book! How can you miss the buttons? It's all about the little details! The worst on those kind of covers, they not even care for the time period. And well it generally just looks lazy. The books are worthy of good covers!

[@opalyasu7159]

I remember when I was reading A Streetcar Named Desire and I left the book face up on a table. One of my teachers jokingly asked me if I was reading anything inappropriate (the cover literally had shirtless Marlon Brando on it) and I freaked out 😂

[@spiral32]

the first part to this video is iconic and I literally laughed so hard, but the sequel made me bawl with laughter you are so iconic and funny

[@anaaifos]

Please make more of these videos I'm begging you 😭 they are so good

[@robertgronewold3326]

Benjamin Franklin was not a US president , but he was a founding father of the nation, the guy who discovered electricity, a famous writer, inventor and a rock star for his era.

[@greenteadreams5182]

Seconding Richelle mead covers, my parents thought I was reading dollar store smut until I showed them the school library label on the spine.

[@prettypridey]

i just wanna say that the cover looked better with the classic cover

[@jfarmerswatermelon6061]

Little women is crazy😃gladly my edition of Lolita has normal cover without seductive girl

[@yourlocalavocado2948]

2:45 they should've just used a picture of you with this wig on 🤦‍♀️

[@itsdivyag]

you're so right

[@sarahkippel2417]

Little women, Moby dick and anne of green gables SENT ME

[@fiarill2]

8:00 Ishmael's POV when he has to share a bed with Queequeg 😂

[@sgthebee]

I came for this comment, and this comment alone! (It's ok tho they get married)

[@libby1538]

Hey just fyi, Benjamin Franklin wasn't a president. He was a Founding Father around that time, and his biggest impact on the world today is that he is the originator of the rags-to-riches myth (because he used to wash rags as a child and ended up being a successful white man). He also invented the lightning rod and bifocals, and his autobiography was one of the most popular books at that time (and influenced how people like Fredrick Douglass would later write their memoirs)

[@lalas181]

Iirc, he was also a fairly accomplished satirist (though I assume since he was a Founding Father people didn't really care if his books were good or not, which is unfortunate) and at one point tried to get the US's national bird to be the wild turkey. We could have been living in the timeline where instead of an eagle screech being used as a generic American noise, we get "America, fuck yeah!" preceded by _turkey gobbling._ I for one feel robbed.

[@itsdivyag]

oopsies also the rags-to-riches thing is so interesting

[@itsdivyag]

to be fair i do think turkey gobbling noises are strongly associated with America

[@roguehorses6868]

Not to mention Ben Franklin wearing a raccoon hat like Davy Crockett whenever he visited France-- so everyone in France would think he was an exotic man xD He was known for being a playa

[@TheSodaBurst]

Ben Franklin was never president though...

[@itsdivyag]

please check my pinned comment

[@zynpkrdg]

that crime and punishment cover caused me physical pain.

[@Melody-kc1tg]

Vladimir: I don't want any girls on the cover Person making the Lolita cover: Y'all hear something?

[@lanchile1483]

when i tell you my jaw dropped at that cover being little women

[@jameslecitron1039]

2:16 is a great cover for a book talking about the fall of an empire. Look at the characters. Despite riding in front of one of the center of power of the roman empire, the woman is looking in the other direction and the man is looking at the woman. The coliseum is getting completely ignored. Their clothes, their appearance has nothing to do with the romans. What this cover is communicating is what is left of one of the biggest empire the mediterranean ever knew. A few stone buildings that modern people aren’t even looking at. « My name is Ozymandias, king of kings… » you know the rest. It’s an incisive cover that communicates the fall of a decadent empire in an absolutely brilliant way (you could even interpret a layer about how our modern society could fall in the same way).

[@C0C0N0T]

My jaw FELL when Little Women came up 😂 I choked on nothing and had a coughing fit on the bus, what on earth were they thinking 😂 Edit: THE SHARK AJHDDHJA

[@masterphoenixharp]

OF MICE AND MEN??? THE ONE WHERE THE GUY FCKIN SHOOTS HIS FRIEND??? THEY LIVE ON A FARM HALF THE BOOK?!??!?? WHAT IS SEXY ABOUT THAT???

[@ijustdocomments6777]

Guessing the Ben Franklin book is actually historical fiction where he's an immortal vampire from the 1400's...? Holy crap, actually, that's... NO ONE STEAL THIS.

[@redglassesart]

Ooh! Lovely surprise! I was just thinking about book covers 😂

[@redglassesart]

Take them back! I can’t unsee these 😂😂😂

[@itsdivyag]

love the duality of your comments

[@edorasmarauder5761]

I had no idea that there was a world of book covers that promote false advertising.

[@n0brainjustvibes]

SCREAMING AT THE MISTBORN COVER PLEASE i did NOT expect that!! not the first one to take me out (that would be Moby Dick (The Whale)) but as a mistborn fan that. wow.

[@emmablitch8949]

You are so stunning!!💗💗

[@coffemuse]

Would you consider designing your own Lolita cover for us? I'd love to see it!

[@pemanilnoob]

As someone who knows nothing about most of these books, it definitively felt like an inside joke i didn’t get lol

[@user-cg4zv8ib3j]

i love this channel

[@rebeccarussell4235]

Please go find the pink cover of Flowers in the Attic from the early 2000s. It is the most misleading cover I’ve ever seen 😂

[@lulubugs2752]

You got a gold mine of content right here

[@corrinflakes9659]

Graphic designers of book covers really be thinking “don’t judge a book on its cover” exempts weight on their duty. Like I might judge buying a copy of a book by it’s cover, like I hope to God there exists copies with better covers.

[@user-we8dn5ub9z]

why don't wordsworth just get rid of the pictures...It would probably be cheaper for them and better for our eyes

[@sheflewtothemoon4431]

Just discovered this channel. Shits hilarious 🙏🙏

[@DavidGonzalez-tv2lf]

In my country there is a very low budget publishing house that print public domain books, from the classic greek to The Capital, folk tales, etc. All the covers are the same renascent painting with a white circle with low opacity over it and the title and the author wrote in Times New Roman. Peak editorial design.

[@firecrest8154]

The Wordsworth classic edition of Lolita would be a sight to behold

[@itsdivyag]

i don't even want to think about it

[@KAITLYN-wq2rq]

I prefer illustrations over abs. It’s just embarrassing to have on bookshelves. Sometimes it doesn’t even fit the book.

[@silasoconnell6413]

Ok but that Crime and Punishment cover is so bad it's camp. Also, that Benjamin Franklin cover is even funnier because that Botticelli painting is speculated to be a SELF PORTRAIT. So the Ben Franklin book has just an entirely different guy on it.

[@itsdivyag]

the wild thing is some pics of benjamin's portrait is in public domain so what was the reason here

[@alpyki2588]

My firsr personal book cover peeve is the hot air balloons on copies of Around the World in 80 Days. Out of all the methods of transport, they never use a hot air balloon. My second personal book cover peeve is with the Phantom of the Opera and the half mask thing. He never wears one of those.

[@erinfuller5542]

I mean there are no more American values than pride, and prejudice lmao

[@W41K.3R]

And having pride in prejudice. Amen and amen

[@jasmin5440]

GUYS I GUESSED THE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE ONE 💀 also loved the video aha ❤

[@bruh-uo7yk]

thanks for having english subs btw! great video 💗

[@itsdivyag]

No problem 😊

[@TIGRESSINAPIT]

IT’S BEEN SO LONG 😭

[@oshelynncabrera2880]

Ben wasn’t a president lol. I wish he was 😂

[@mariaraquelfs]

Non ironically Oscar Wilde would LOVE a hot hunk on the cover of his books

[@absurdum-the-artist]

The decline and fall of the Roman Empire had me laughing on the floor

[@itsdivyag]

no i was so shocked when i first saw it?!?!!?

[@sundus928]

Thanks to the Lolita book cover Analysis that I got over my hatred against this book. It was the kind of book that Always disgusted me just by the name of it . The lollipop, the seductive gaze of the "Woman" , it's outright criminal. I still wouldn't read the book but atleast I got some insight what it is supposed to be.

[@nala7829]

Yeah. It's definitely made as a critique - the writer himself was a victim of CSA.

[@SunilSingh-hi6tw]

I've been meaning to read Dorian grey but the covers, I've gotta find a good one

[@anahitkarapetyan1139]

the Russian cover of "We Were liers" is translated to "Love Was at fault" I just had to check the author to make sure its the same book. it was...

[@smilesedgeworth7143]

as a russian, you are incorrect. It actually means "Deception is at fault".

[@CandyThePuppy]

My friends were just talking about all the abs covers lol.

[@ZeMidnightPepper]

first video i saw of your channel and i subscribed. Hilarious, blessed be~!

[@Eloraurora]

My sister guessed the Moby Dick one right, on no other hint than, "You've heard of it." No idea how, except that few Western clasics feature prominent tattooed characters, and Ishmael does seem to think Queequeg is hot.

[@itsdivyag]

your sister should be a private investigator / detective

[@terryt9833]

This gives me more faith in my skills as an illustrator

[@sarafrankel5654]

with the american flag pride and prejudice one i literally said "ooh oooh asap rocky"

[@ailyoutube9106]

why hasn't this got more views, it's so funny

[@aikotitilai3820]

i feel like for the one with Moby Dick the designer wake up at 1am and remembered they had to make a book cover for 8 in the morning

[@medusa9082]

The covers for Dracula’s are hilarious