#281
Mike Nelson here.
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probably odd to have a nude woman on the cover of any book you read. what if i'm on the bus. someone will go oh look that obese man is reading erotica in front of my child. and if i say no ma'am it is actually about rape then really i'm nowhere ahead. the cover should be of an orthodox icon.
#282
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the small version of that cover is bad, the large version is not bad art, but i dont think it looks good on a book, imo, but i havent read it, and i havent had a chance to kick it in to a ditch1
#283
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haha, please to kick it in a ditch. i think, yeah, i didnt like so much how it turned as the small version. idk how it would look on a book
#284
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imo it should have the Black Hand on the cover


or like the Black Hand Seal is cool too

#285
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getfiscal posted:
probably odd to have a nude woman on the cover of any book you read. what if i'm on the bus. someone will go oh look that obese man is reading erotica in front of my child. and if i say no ma'am it is actually about rape then really i'm nowhere ahead. the cover should be of an orthodox icon.

houellebecq's platform book cover got me something like this. a photograph of a woman on the cover, then somebody asked me what its about, and i had to answer sex tourism.

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Crow posted:
imo it should have the Black Hand on the cover


or like the Black Hand Seal is cool too

this could go on the kobe book and fit thematically. maybe a drawing of kobe bryant with a black hand seal

#287
Mike Nelson here.
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you should remix the book as Forget and Destroy and replace all the rape with tense games of ping pong so that it will be carried at walmart next to some biography of obama.
#288
penitent
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the pic of the city is kewl... you could keep the naked ladey but have it more stylised maybe, less sketchy, iono.... the paper effect thing is tacky and the font is godawful. i think this has been the most thorough + extensive critique of your novel so far
#289
Mike Nelson here.
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Impper posted:
houellebecq's platform book cover got me something like this. a photograph of a woman on the cover, then somebody asked me what its about, and i had to answer sex tourism.

i would die of shame. the thought that someone would think that i have had or would have sex.... wow.

#290
penitent
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you know that thing where a swastika on the cover doubles a book's sales. i think you should maybe make the cover a swastika made out of other swastikas. consider writing the title in swastikas also
#291
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Impper posted:

getfiscal posted:
probably odd to have a nude woman on the cover of any book you read. what if i'm on the bus. someone will go oh look that obese man is reading erotica in front of my child. and if i say no ma'am it is actually about rape then really i'm nowhere ahead. the cover should be of an orthodox icon.

houellebecq's platform book cover got me something like this. a photograph of a woman on the cover, then somebody asked me what its about, and i had to answer sex tourism.



lol yeah all the houellebecq covers in the uk have topless girls on them despite all being about sexually frustrated men

#292
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just put a big picture of shaq on the front, cause then fans of your third book will pick it up thinking its about shaq
#293
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the cover should instead be fabio with a half unbutton white flowing blouse and glistening, oiled up pecs. it would be a much more accurate depiction of what genre the novel would fit into
#294
penitent
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change the title from 'fuck and destroy' to 'rape, rape and rape'
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getfiscal posted:
probably odd to have a nude woman on the cover of any book you read. what if i'm on the bus. someone will go oh look that obese man is reading erotica in front of my child. and if i say no ma'am it is actually about rape then really i'm nowhere ahead. the cover should be of an orthodox icon.


lolll

#296
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jools posted:
just put a big picture of shaq on the front, cause then fans of your third book will pick it up thinking its about shaq



just put a green recycle symbol on it instead so the "fans" (i.e. the williamsburg cretins who were maliciously signed up for the john christy kindle package as a prank by million dollar extreme) will know which trash bin to place the novel into and thereby retaining their sense of moral self righteousness for offsetting their hot-shower carbon foot print or whatever

#297
drivel of drunken hags
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my copy of platform had a ripped off library cover so i didn't know it was a problem

at the time i thought i'd be edgy enough to read white niggers of america in public but i was not at all
#298
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all good suggestions. think ill change the font, mebbe. as for the title i don't think there's any going back.
#299
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back cover: bathroom mirror topless photo of author
#300
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also good, im glad you're not changing the title, if anything is going to be my mark left on the world it'll be that
#301
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lmao. btw where the fuck are you? i need to go to fucking target
#302
Mike Nelson here.
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i once went to a radical environmentalist group meeting and someone gave the example of convincing your friends not to take "20 minute hot showers" and then others kept repeating that so i excused myself because frankly if i don't get to zone out in a womb-like hot current for a good third-hour every day or so then what's the point of being alive.
#303
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Chanhge the title to A Orthodox Icon
#304
Mike Nelson here.
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Groulxsmith posted:
my copy of platform had a ripped off library cover so i didn't know it was a problem

at the time i thought i'd be edgy enough to read white niggers of america in public but i was not at all

*makes secret quebec nationalist signal*

#305
penitent
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getfiscal posted:
then what's the point of being alive.



hm. maybe you should investigate this question in greater depth

#306
Mike Nelson here.
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deadken posted:
hm. maybe you should investigate this question in greater depth

i know you are trolling but it is to smash the false unity of the self

#307
penitent
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deadken posted:
can someone c+p the Impperbook Shitstorm or pm it to me or something. Cheers



yo

who still got a dp account here

#308
penitent
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getfiscal posted:

deadken posted:
hm. maybe you should investigate this question in greater depth

i know you are trolling but it is to smash the false unity of the self



Agreed.

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Impper posted:

lmao. btw where the fuck are you? i need to go to fucking target



lets carpool to williamsburg. i've got a giftcard for exxon mobile and also some giftcards to taco-bell - we can totally turn this dream into a reality

#310
penitent
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i was in williamsburg today. now im in bay ridge. fucking bay ridge
#311
drivel of drunken hags
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i love bay ridge
#312
penitent
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why.
#313
penitent
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actually i got a curry the other day and it was.... decent
#314
drivel of drunken hags
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it's like where i live, but less so
#315
penitent
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its got all flags and crimbo decorations errywhere
#316
Mike Nelson here.
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maybe i'll move to ottawa in june.

who moves to ottawa.
#317
drivel of drunken hags
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i got so bored of the brooklyn enclaves of privilege i once called home i might as well move to a grotesque example of americanana aka staten island
#318
penitent
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i went to staten island. took the ferry. had a cigarette. took the next ferry back
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deadken posted:

deadken posted:
can someone c+p the Impperbook Shitstorm or pm it to me or something. Cheers

yo

who still got a dp account here



lmao guess who

i've wanted impper gone for a long time but could never come up with strong evidence against him other than "he's vaguely terrible" but now he provided it himself




#320
penitent
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i really hope that wasnt gvb or marty