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Strange, Weird, Funny, whatever Book Covers.

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I did not see a previous thread on this.

We have a Strange album/cd covers thread, how about book covers. Here's a few to start.

Vertebrate Organ Cartoon Organism Mammal
This is real and available on Amazon and other places.

Publication Carnivore Poster Font Book cover
A classic from the days of bad sci-fi book covers.

Book Publication World Organism Art
And another.
 
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I love this book.

The medical condition of a stroke on the other side of the brain. Most strokes happen on the left side of the brain, so you're likely to see motor dysfunction, like a droopy face, or a limp arm or leg . . . on the right side (left side of the brain affects right side of the body).

But a stroke on the right side of the brain, which is not as common, affects more nebulous aspects of thinking that are quite different.

In the case of the man who mistook his wife for a hat, he had trouble identifying objects unless they were in motion . . . his wife was sitting in the foyer, on a large seated hat rack. He KNEW it was a hat rack, not because he saw a hat rack, but because the location is where the hat rack is located - THAT he remembered. He grabbed his wife, because she was seated where his hat should have been. In spite of his problem identifying things, he simply compensated in other ways, such as asking questions of others: "That is my shoe, yes?".

A fascinating read, with many stroke patients with many unusual symptoms and coping mechanisms.
 
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1964

The book chronicles the treatment of three paranoid schizophrenic patients at Ypsilanti State (Psychiatrist) Hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The group therapy sessions must have been interesting. The author disowned his work two decades later. The hospital was torn down years ago. Coincidentally, I live a short drive to Ypsilanti.
 
#22 ·
The Wordsworth Edition of classic novels in cheap paperback format have showy pictorial covers, most of which have some vague connection with the story.
Two gems that fail beautifully:
Hardy's Jude the Obscure has a head&shoulders of a handsome young man, clean-shaven, floppy fair hair, elegant cheek bones. The novel repeatedly refers to Jude's dark hair and full beard.
For Gogol's Dead Souls, the picture is of a floaty spectral wraith. Despite the title, the novel has nothing whatsoever to do with ghosts or the supernatural.

Maybe I'm just pedantic?
 
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