Okay, this will brand me as crazy, but I kind of love those primitive illustrations on the French covers.
Then there are the "Adult Editions", which are okay, but boring:
Phoenix: [link]
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Half-Blood Prince: [link]
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Azkaban: [link]
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Sue - Aug 01, 2007 8:25:17 am PDT #2158 of 3301
hip deep in pie
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Susan W. - Aug 01, 2007 8:28:19 am PDT #2159 of 3301
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I like the adult Half-Blood Prince. The others, NSM.
Connie Neil - Aug 01, 2007 8:30:54 am PDT #2160 of 3301
brillig
I like the Azkaban one, it's ominous and elegant.
Polter-Cow - Aug 01, 2007 8:35:26 am PDT #2161 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, at first, the very existence of the "adult" covers amused me, but they are rather pretty in their own way.
Kat - Aug 01, 2007 8:38:08 am PDT #2162 of 3301
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The OotP one is very third-reich.
sumi - Aug 01, 2007 8:43:29 am PDT #2163 of 3301
Art Crawl!!!
Connie Neil - Aug 01, 2007 8:45:35 am PDT #2164 of 3301
brillig
Those Germans are some wacky folks. I wonder what the Japanese covers look like.
Kat - Aug 01, 2007 8:53:00 am PDT #2165 of 3301
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I love the diversity of the covers and I do wonder how much that shapes people's reading? Did anyone else read the article in EW on the illustrator of the US editions?
Polter-Cow - Aug 01, 2007 8:54:48 am PDT #2166 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I did! This whole discussion was reminding me of it. It's odd because she looks to be J.K.'s right-hand gal, yet she does the U.S. covers, not the U.K. covers.
JZ - Aug 01, 2007 8:55:28 am PDT #2167 of 3301
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Okay, this will brand me as crazy, but I kind of love those primitive illustrations on the French covers.
I'll stand in the crazy corner with you, Sean. The UK children's edition covers seriously make my skin crawl. The French are odd and quaint and weirdly lovely.